Short Film Saturday

Short Film Saturday: From London with Love

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I believe in nothing before its time, which is why even though I’ve seen it, and it’s already quite popular on YouTube; I am only posting this holiday-themed film from Burberry now. While I have discussed in the past that commercial-films can be artful (See example one and two). This one is interesting in another way: it also blurs lines of theatre and film as Old Hollywood musicals did in big numbers. It also starts Romeo Beckham, the son of a international footballer David Beckham.

Short Film Saturday: The Immigrant (1917)

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This is an important short film on a number of levels:

In no particular order: it was added to the National Film Registry in 1998, it’s topical yet again and always has been; and it’s a Chaplin film that works as a great intro to his work as an actor, writer and director just to name a few that jump instantly to mind. So after some brief discussion on the version I linked to, enjoy!

You can view The Immigrant quite a few places on line. In two other links I saw it run at 22:30 and 20:00 respectively based on different frame rates. I chose the one here for the best image. The track is silent. The 22:30 on YouTube has a decent score, the 20′ on Archive.Org starts the soundtrack emulating a steamboat horn.

You can view it here.

Short Film Saturday: Demoni

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I am not the audiophile my brother is so my lamentations of the lack of creativity in the music video is usually unfounded and based on a very ignorant familiarity with solely mainstream offerings. It’s usually on the independent scene in both film and music where the mavericks can be found. When they merge you get great things like Theodore Ushev’s short/video Demoni which highlights the eponymous single by Bulgarian folk band Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs.

Short Film Saturday: Katasumi (1998)

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With this being the last Short Film Saturday entry before Halloween I figured it was time to kick up the selected horror film. Katasumi one of the short films that acted as a precursor to The Grudge films in the US, and Juon in Japan, does that in three short minutes: it features a simple set-up, unsettling soundtrack and a rate on incidents. Enjoy and Happy Happy Halloween (Silver Shamrock)!