short-films

Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, this film will tango you off your feet. (13:15 min)

This is the most popular short film from an online film festival, Green Unplugged. (6:10 min)

The Follow (8:48 min) is the 3rd of 8 short BMW films made for the Web. Starring Clive Owens, this episode also stars Forest Whitaker, Mickey Rourke, Adriana Lima and was directed by Wong Kar-Wai.

With a stroke of the pen, a stranger transforms the afternoon for another man in this short film (5:55 min) by Alonso Alvarez.

Powder Keg (9:09 min) is the fifth of 8 short BMW films made for the Web. Starring Clive Owens, this episode also stars Stellan Skarsgard and was directed by Alexandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

A 1989 Brazilian short film that tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump and how different groups of people interact with it. (12:30 min)

A few weeks ago, I posted Arcade Fire playing Neon Bible in an elevator. This is the complete 15 minute film by Vincent Moon from the Olympia in Paris. The film follows Arcade Fire through the backstage corridors, the elevator and eventually to the crowd and features both Neon Bible & Wake Up.

Nate Harrison’s 2004 video (18:02 min) is a thoughtful and convincing meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.