This short film by Erik Wernquist recreates landscapes from our solar system and is narrated with words from Carl Sagan. It explores the appeal of new frontiers and new places and the part of our nature that lures us ‘out there’. Regardless of whether or not you, personally, want to go to space it has…
Watch the original Star Wars parody “Hardware Wars”
I remember, shortly after Star Wars came out everyone would rush to see anything even vaguely Star Wars related. It wasn’t long after the release of the original film, way before Spaceballs, that filmmaker Ernie Fosselius decided to do a parody entitled Hardware Wars. Like many things from the 1970s, it’s far cheesier than I…
Watch the hilarious Mel Brookseque short ‘the Gunfighter’ narrated by Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman of Parks & Rec stars, as the narrator, in this tale of western … well sex mostly. It examines the question of what might happen if everyone could hear the all knowing narrator. The Gunfighter was directed by Eric Kissack (Brüno, Role Models), written by Eric Kissack and stars Shawn Parsons as the…
Watch Tim Burton’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ made for Disney in 1982
Tim Burton’s Hansel and Gretel was a half-hour short produced for the then fledgling Disney Channel. It was filmed on 16mm with a budget of $100,000. Although it has been included in Burton art exhibits, it was only aired once on Halloween in 1983. Burton took the original Grimm fairy tale and made it Japanese,…
Watch the 2012 short ‘Peter’ which imagines the Peter Pan origin story
Today Geeks are Sexy posted the 2012 short ‘Peter‘. The film was written and directed by Nicolas Duval, based on a graphic novel by Regis Loisel. Unfortunately it feels like the film cuts out just as it is getting started, as if the filmmaker had wanted to do a feature and found himself with the…
Watch the 75th Anniversary Batman Short ‘Strange Days’
Artist and writer Bruce Timm, the creator of Batman: the Animated Series, helped create Batman: Strange Days to honor the caped crusader’s 75th anniversary. Described as a “Lost tale from Batman’s past – the Dark Knight tracks a strange giant to the mysterious lair of Dr. Hugo Strange.” Get more info on the 75th anniversary from DC…
Short film ‘Eye of the Storm’ shows the beauty of Icelandic winter
Ok, yes it also looks painfully cold. Winter is just barely over and I’m not really looking for reminders or images of ice and snow. There is no denying, however, that the images and time lapses, captured in Henry Juh Wah Lee’s short film are breathtaking, especially if you can watch them from a warm, dry…
Meet Weeping Angels up close in Doctor Who POV fan short “Stone”
Have a first person encounter with this brilliantly scary short CGI film from John Smith who says: “After over 300 hours of rendering, it’s finally done! For future video updates, you can like me on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/JohnSmithVFX…. This is my first ever CG short film. It’s the culmination of about three months of work, from initial concept…
Short Film, P.S. Hoffman (A Tribute) celebrates the work of an amazing actor
Editor Caleb Slain has created, this homage to the recently departed Phillip Seymour Hoffman. P.S. Hoffman (A Tribute). He refers to it as a “A post-script journey through Philip Seymour Hoffman’s lifetime in cinema.” The 20+ minute short uses scenes from Jack Goes Boating, Mission Impossible III, the Invention of Lying, Doubt, Pirate Radio, The Savages, Moneyball,…
“The Story” – A short film by Homer Groening starring Maggie, Lisa and Matt
This is one of those things that is so cool that there is really no reason why I should need to explain the coolness of it. For anyone who is reading this though and doesn’t quite understand, “the Story” is a short film made by Homer Groening, father of Simpsons creator Matt Groening. It stars…