The 2018 short films thread

[Philip J. Fry]

Whether it's by an amateur or a pro, post it here and discuss it!

[TGM]

[Philip J. Fry]

[Spinal]

Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn

[Stay Puft]

One of the best films I saw at TIFF this year was a short stop-motion animated film, This Magnificent Cake!, which is about the Scramble for Africa.



The trailer hides how amazingly laugh-out-loud funny and surreal this movie gets. It's divided into five chapters, and I spent the first two crying and choking from laughing so hard. The third segment is when it starts getting more surreal, which I found less successful overall, but it's still a strong piece of animation that builds to one final, brilliant note. No idea when this is getting released or how, but I hope it becomes widely available because I think a lot of you would like it.

In the meantime, you can see Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels's previous film, Oh Willy..., here:

[TGM]

[Stay Puft]

One of the coolest things I've watched this year, Reka Busci's Solar Walk:
vimeo link
(I can't make vimeo embed for some reason? I dunno.)

Also, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new short, Blue, is now available online:

[Philip J. Fry]

[Philip J. Fry]

[Philip J. Fry]

This was actually really funny.