Brenda told us about this Oscar-nominated short tonight...and it'll tear at your heartstrings

These dystopian short films are really, really spectacular

And there are others to explore.

Beautiful

A wonderful short film

Courtesy of Aish.com

It is called 'Porcelain Unicorn', and is a film by Keegan Wilcox and winner of the Philips 'Tell It Your Way' competition.

Something to make you think

This just about sums it up, don't you think?

I thought this was wicked fun

YKWIA showed it to me today:

And I thought my three alarms were kind of excessive

I've had days like this, though...this is a cute Korean short film.



Or here's a link: Alarm (from the Mesai animation team).

This is rather cute

This is an extremely well done short film from Australia

When I was an awkward high school student going through my parents' painful divorce, there was a boy in school named Jeff Gregory who called me 'Orez', which is 'Zero' spelled backwards. It was very painful at the time, and it took me awhile to realise he probably had his own issues and was just taking it out on me. I'm sure he's gotten a little more mature and hopefully caring since then. :) This is for him and for all those other people who have bolstered their own sense of worth at the expense of others they deem the bottom of the pecking order--and for those who think their lowly status will never change, and may time bring them love.



Thanks to YKWIA who understood, and who showed me this video today. For more on the film, including ways to get your own copy, check out http://www.zeroshortfilm.com/. You can also like them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.

This is absolutely amazing

I want to dance with the books, too, and fly. They have captured the joy that books bring, the enrichment, and the imagination, so well. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore also won an Oscar for best animated short film. And it was created in Shreveport, Louisiana, near where I spent six years of my childhood.

Thanks to my childhood friend Jody Sauers Cummins for sharing this on Facebook!

Haunting and beautiful and creepy

all at once...



Okay, really, on to Harry Dresden and his lot.

Two videos YKWIA showed me

'Occupied', an Austrian film about a resourceful woman's quest


and

'The Black Hole', from Britain, where someone isn't quite as resourceful as he thinks he is...



I thought both were well done. Check out Future Shorts for these and other short films.

Thanks YKWIA!

Two interesting short films

by FC Rabbath





Thanks to YKWIA who showed me both at different times. I've gone ahead and subscribes, since that's two videos I've liked on that channel. I think they're well done. Scarlet's Witch is especially creepy.

Sometimes it's hard to find the right one for you

Amusing French animated film

Whimsy

The moon rather reminds me of Dick Cheney in looks (and in being full of hot air), but it comes through in the end. Thanks to Cory over at Voyages Extraordinaires for the link to the video.

A really spooky French Cthulhoid video

called 'Ryleh' (as in R'lyeh)

What's really going on when peas roll on your plate

'Peas' by Vincent Prijent

An excellent short film

about a mother descending into dementia, and a daughter struggling to keep things together. It's called 'My Name is Lisa' (this won the best short film category in 2007 on YouTube).



The sad thing? Judging by the comments, the vast majority of watchers had no clue that the mom was descending into Alzheimer's. Jeesh.

I actually found out about this because YKWIA (who finds all sorts of things on the Web) found the version with German subtitles:



and of course my name is Lisa (Eilir is my middle name), so he thought he'd found a German counterpart.

It's by Shelton Films and has won several other awards. It puts a lot into a very short video.

Anyway, it's sad, but very good. My great-grandmother had Alzheimer's. I saw her slip away over fifteen years of the disease. This is right on. We think about Alzheimer's as being a disease of the old, but it can strike much younger. According to the film's website, 250,000 children ages 8-18 are caring for someone with Alzheimer's. They suggest the website http://www.actionalz.org for more information on this disease.