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1:00 PM on 05.21.2013

Flix for Short: Oswalt's Star Wars rant gets animated

A while ago comedian Patton Oswalt appeared on the TV show Parks and Recreation as a citizen of the town of Pawnee who made a filibuster rant... about Star Wars Episode VII, and all that it could be. And the internet went cr...

Liz Rugg

9:00 AM on 05.16.2013

ABCs of Death 2 is in the works

The ABCs of Death was an interesting experiment as far as anthology horror movies go. Despite some great entries by Marcel Sarmiento (D is for Dogfight), Xavier Gens (X is for XXL), and Lee Hardcastle (T is for Toilet), the f...

Hubert Vigilla

2:00 PM on 05.14.2013

Pixar to make "Toy Story of Terror," a TV Special

Pixar has revealed that they will be debuting another Toy Story Toon short, in the tradition of Hawaiian Vacation, Small Fry and Partysaurus Rex. This time, Toy Story of Terror will be broadcasted on ABC television on Hallowe...

Liz Rugg

3:00 PM on 05.09.2013

Flix For Short: Tallest Heights

Tallest Heights was painstakingly made by filmmakers Becky & Joe, who employed an old filmmaking technique that reached the height of its popularity in the 1960s and 70s - physical manipulation of actual analogue film. T...

Liz Rugg

12:00 PM on 05.02.2013

Flix for Short: Omelette

Omelette was created by artist Madeline Sharafian at Calarts. The story follows a happy-go-lucky dog who loves its master so much that it'll do anything to take care of him. The short film is super adorable and I love the mu...

Liz Rugg



Tribeca Review: Tricked photo
Tribeca Review: Tricked
by Hubert Vigilla


2:00 PM on 04.18.2013

Flix for Short: Everything I Can See From Here

Everything I Can See From Here is a beautiful little film by artists Sam Taylor and Bjorn Aschim. The dark comedy features two guys and their dog minding their own business, playing some football in a dystopian, industrial la...

Liz Rugg

12:00 PM on 04.09.2013

Flix for Short: Illusions

Illusions is a sweet little film that begins as a look at optical illusions and their impact on the mind, and quickly rallies into a philosophical call for reverence of human life. It's a short, subtle and very enjoyable lit...

Liz Rugg

1:00 PM on 03.19.2013

Flix for Short: RGB XYZ

RGB XYZ is an animated short film by artist David O'Reilly. It's about leaving home for the big city, growing up and discovering one's place in the universe. O'Reilly says that RGB XYZ was a sort of stepping stone for him an...

Liz Rugg

5:00 PM on 03.15.2013

Flix for Short: Love Sport: Love Big Game Hunting

Earlier today we featured a new short called Jojo in the Stars from the animators at Studio Aka, and while making all of that happen I stumbled upon an older series of animated shorts from Studio Aka called Love Sport. There...

Liz Rugg

11:00 AM on 03.15.2013

Flix for Short: Jojo in the Stars

Jojo in the Stars is a short film by Marc Craste and Studio Aka. It tells the sorrowful tale of Jojo - a freak show performer in a bleak, dystopian world where abuse is the norm. Jojo has a number one fan though, and he'll r...

Liz Rugg

7:00 PM on 03.13.2013

Back to the Future Part II inspires Hoverboard short film

Back to the Future Part II, directed by Robert Zemeckis, still captures the minds of people today. That or people really just want the Mattel Hoverboard from the film to be real by 2015. I’m looking at you Mattel! You have 2...

Logan Otremba



Review: The ABCs of Death photo
Review: The ABCs of Death
by Hubert Vigilla




Interview: Marcel Sarmiento (The ABCs of Death) photo
Interview: Marcel Sarmiento (The ABCs of Death)
by Hubert Vigilla


4:00 PM on 03.05.2013

Flix for Short: The Pub

The Pub is a short, animated film by Joseph Pierce. The short combines the melancholic life of a barmaid who works in a seedy pub in London, with a fluctuating animation style where reality is fluid. You know, fluid like bee...

Liz Rugg



NYC: Three-night Richard Williams program at 92Y Tribeca photo
NYC: Three-night Richard Williams program at 92Y Tribeca
by Hubert Vigilla


1:00 PM on 02.20.2013

Flix for Short: Moon Dust

Moon Dust, a short film created by Ezequiel Romero, is about a pilot (on his way from the moon) who crash lands in the middle of a forest. There's this fabulous twist on the genre in the end, so I can't really explain the fi...

Nick Valdez

2:00 PM on 02.19.2013

Flix for Short: CodeHackerz

CodeHackerz, by Jonathan Franco, Matthew Levenstein, and Micheal Parks for the Univeristy of Central Florida's Campus MovieFest, is a spoof of all of the terrible "computer hacking" in films from the late 90s-early 2000...

Nick Valdez



Flix for Short: Fist of Jesus photo
Flix for Short: Fist of Jesus
by Hubert Vigilla


12:00 PM on 02.11.2013

2013's Best Animated Short nominees now online in full

With this year's Academy Awards now only two weeks away, it's finally time to get all of those last minute viewings of this year's nominees. Although it's still possible to catch, say a Best Picture nominee like Argo in theat...

Nick Valdez



11:00 AM on 01.30.2013

Flix for (Not So) Short: If I Am Your Mirror

An underrated film I really liked a few years ago was Richard Linklater's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Outside of the film's narrative of a cop-turned-junkie torn between his internal struggle with realit...

Geoff Henao

3:00 PM on 01.23.2013

Flix for Short: Chennai to Pondicherry

Chennai to Pondicherry: A Motorcycle Tour of Southern India is a short film produced by the Royal Enfield Cycle company of India presumably hoping to inspire both cycling enthusiasts and regular people to be open to the virt...

Liz Rugg