Tag: Short film
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Rolling the credits on 2021 – Billie Eilish vs Taylor Swift
There was a Crumplbangers Discord challenge last week to make an ‘ending’ mashup for 2021 using only 2021 sources, so I decided to use two tracks I loved and actually only heard this year – Taylor Swift‘s new Taylor Version of ‘All Too Well’ and Billie Eilish‘s hit ‘Happier Than Ever’. I realised while I…
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The Age Of Sail
A beautiful short film about sailing and the switch to steam, it was shortlisted for an Oscar and in the Venice Film Festival Selection, and I can see why. (via Adventures of the Black Gang) Here’s the blurb: Set on the open ocean in 1900, Age of Sail is the story of William Avery (voiced…
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Ruth Coker Burks
https://vimeo.com/226478796 Moving short film by Rose MacGowan about a hero, Ruth Coker Burks, who cared for, claimed and buried those abandoned during the AIDS crisis in Arkansas. This was when people wouldn’t even touch those with GRID/AIDS without gloves, families disowned their children, the plague brought out the worst in people except for the likes…
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A Fishy Story
Ahh this is what short films are for – take a fanciful story about a friend’s relative half-remembering a strange smelling tale where his grandmother who had a fish surname got a salmon from the opening of a Marina, opened by legend Sir Michael Fish, and see if it’s a fishy story, or not…Delightful! (via…
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The Snow Guardian
Sometimes you see a short film and it opens up even more questions – in fact I was watching this as if it was a trailer until I realised that was the film! Fascinating look into the life of billy barr and his weather measurements which have helped prove that the world is getting warmer.…
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New Pixar short
https://vimeo.com/189901272 A beautiful short film called Piper about a little bird is the latest Pixar project. Usually Pixar’s shorts are very important, they are working out certain things for bigger projects, indeed Pixar started with short films like Tin Toy and they’ve never forgotten that. I wonder what they are working out/working on this time?…