No Fat Clips!!!

“A kiss and a traffic accident thrust Calum (Ashley Cook) and Lucy (Zahra Browne), both twenty-something and “just good friends”, into a strange limbo constructed entirely from their own memories.”

A short film written and directed by Matt Strachan and produced by Gemma Mitchell at The Room. Director of photography: Todd Kleparski. Editor: Zoran Trajkovic. Soundtrack: Cellophane by Aaron Smith; Freejazz by The Envelopes.

Here is a “short film about a young boy in India chasing after his dream.” The lesson learned here: once you learned the lesson then go and put it into practice.

The short film has been directed and animated by Nicolas Athané, Méryl Franck, Alexis Liddell, Andres Salaff and Maïlys Vallade. Produced at Les Gobelins in Paris as an opening film for the Annecy Film Festival 2008.

A little girl gets bored on her own and asks for permission to her mother to meet Charly. The mother refuses but the little girl disobeys.

A short animated film by four students of the ESMA: Julien Duval, Loïc Quesada, Rémy Terreaux, Magda Wydrzynska.

When two experienced hitmen enter the house of their next victim, they find out that taking his life will take more than just a well placed shot. That may or may not have to do with the fact that the victim is a kid.

The Descendent is a short film written and directed by Robert Glickert and starring Pearce Bunting, George Ketsios, Kyle Brett Farris and Heather De Sisto.

You Ruined Everything is the story of the morbid aftermaths of a morbid love(?) relationship. Combining a grotesque setup, an unreal photography and a non annoying voice over (a touch of Dexter, I’d say) the film manages to be funnily disturbing. Or disturbingly funny.

Starring Arthur Simone, the short film has been written, directed and edited by Anthony Penta at Pentaworks.

What if Jesus was born in the year 2000? Would he throw mad rave parties and party all the night long with his apostles? Been a testimonial for energy drinks?

The film has been produced at Wizz Design and directed by Remi Bastie, Jean-Baptiste Cumont, Clement Desnos, Jonathan Djob Nkondo and Nicolas Pegon.

When luck turns her back on Maurice, the greatest cannonball man, there’s nothing he can do to change it and save the day. The fate, in the form of a pink elephant, will have its victory.

Tachaaan is a short animated movie by Rafael Cano AKA Rafiki, Carlos del Olmo and Miguel A. Bellot, three students of the Pepe-School-Land.

The short movie – the work of Florian Belmonte, Chloé Bonnet, Cyrille Chauvin, Gaëlle Diot and Eleonora Marinoni, students of LISAA – offers an improbable as well as picturesque explanation for the moai monoliths, the giant stone heads to be found on Easter Island.

I’m about to read about the rise and fall of the Rapa Nui society in Jared Diamond’s Collapse (great book, so far) but it’s nice to see the story from a different point of view.