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montage of recent works written, directed, edited by michael daley.
DPs: Daniel Patrick Carbone, Matthew J. Lloyd, Tim Hogan, Michael Daley.

Pete The Meat Puppet

"The musical craziness has been produced and directed by the Legs collective. Creative agency: Far Far, Stockholm.

Part of the Diesel Dark campaign." No fat clips!!!

Scintillation

Directed by Xavier Chassaing

                                                                                                   music by fedaden
"This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques."

via Laughing Squid

Within the Woods

"...so Sam rewrote his script to seven pages and raised somewhere around $1,600 and set out to shoot this shortened version in hopes of snagging potential investors for the longer film. Their plan was to create a thirty-minute 'senseless gore flick' with the help of special effects artist, Tom Sullivan.
The film was shot on Rob Tapert's family farm during the cold winter of 1978."
Deatites Online

BRUCE CAMPBELL
ELLEN SANDWEISS
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
SAM RAIMI

YouTube                                                                                                 Wikipedia

The Adventures of Mutilator

Hero of the Wastelands                                             Directed by Eric Fogel

"Animated in the crudest manner possible, Mutilator is a tour de force of constantly shifting perspectives, unnatural spacial relationships, and absurd violence. Combine thses with a classic, 80s, post-apocalyptic synthesizer soundtrack, theme song by Deth Boat and ridiculously terse dialogue — “My arm needs bandaging; your skin will suffice.” — and you have a masterpiece of schlocky toonage. Seriously, it’s worth it just for the scene in the second video where Mutilator appears to dance his way towards a nefarious enemy before plunging his hands through the fellow’s torso. His dance is the dance of death." ectoplasmosis!

EPISODE II: UNDERWORLD

via monster brains

The Tourists

Another transient day at the beach.                           directed by Malcolm Sutherland

Alive in Joburg

We don't want to be here, this place doesn't want us... we have nothing, nothing.

"In 1990, Johannesburg was home to a number of Extraterrestrial refugees.
[…] later on, the aliens began moving into other areas of the city, committing crimes in order to survive, and frequently clashing with the police.

The film goes on, playing as a documentary, complete with interviews and footage taken from handheld cameras, highlights the growing tension between the civilian population and the visitors." Wikipedia

directed by Neill Blomkamp

Alive in Joburg is in public domain and available at Internet Archive.
MPEG4 (16 MB) QuickTime (77 MB)

David Lynch: Lumière et compagnie

"Lumière and Company is a 1995 movie where more than 40 directors were invited to make a short film using the Lumière brothers' original cinématographe hand-cranked camera invented in the 1890s. Each short had to be less than 52 seconds long without synchronized sound and be made in fewer than three takes. All editing, of course, wa done in-camera. The final cut included works by Wim Wenders, Peter Greenaway, John Boorman, Merchant & Ivory, and many others. Here is David Lynch's contribution to the project." Boing Boing

via Hugo Strikes Back!

MUTO

An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and Baden by Blu.

via Laughing Squid

The Tale of How

"In the The Tale of How we meet a giant octopus with a tree growing in his head, the terror of the Indian ocean , OTTO THE MONSTER! His lonley past time is to devour the innocent dodo’s who lived on his head..."

"The Tale of How is the second part of a trilogy of works called the Dodo Trilogy. It is to later be flanked by The Tale of Then and The Tale of When. The Dodo Trilogy, in turn, fits into a much greater work called, The Household."

The Tale of How consists out of a series of 13 prints and a short animated film.

Deep in the Indian ocean,
all scary and black,
lives an old octopus,
with a tree in it’s back.And from inside this tree,
all Piranhas appear,
who sing soothing songs,
and are kind and sincere.They’re not at all stupid,
Though they’re not very bright,
And they’re never quite wrong,
they’re never quite right.They’re never asleep,
And they’re never awake,
They all dress like weirdoes,
make no mistake...

by The Blackheart Gang
Download The Tale of How (Good Quality - 70MB)

via No fat clips!!!

bluebot

by focusmatic music:September Malevolence

bubble_bulle

super8 underwater self-portrait...
by focusmatic music:cLOUDDEAD

Death Is My Co-Pilot

"Death is annoying isn't he?"

A History of Evil

An animated Documentary/Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day created by Ole-Magnus Saxegard.

"The film was intended to show what people have believed in and pointed to as evil throughout history. It was meant to get you to think about what evil really is. It is meant to show that when we get too obsessed with "evil" we might end up taking part in it ourselves.

One has to separate evil and human cruelty. Human cruelty is people not being nice to one another. Evil is something else, it is something we have created, a word and a concept for things that are not acceptable. It is a label for things that we do not understand and dont want to understand.

But is evil really ever a complete explanation for anything?

A lot of bad deeds has been done in the name of good. The people that did them ment good, are they evil?"

via Laughing Squid

Still Life

"Nathan takes an unexpected detour through a small town on his road trip. The startling events that unfold around him defy logic or explanation. Fortunately, however, they don't defy the tenets of awesome filmmaking. Still Life is a brilliant exercise in paranormal storytelling. Rod Serling would be proud."
Director: Jon Knautz

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Google Maps

"Two young men take a turn down the wrong street view."
A short video by The Vacationeers.

via Laughing Squid

Over Time

A tribute to Muppets creator Jim Henson written, directed, animated and edited by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrié.

Soundtrack: "Inconsolable" by The Silberman Orchestra; "Shien vi di l'vone" and "Eli Eli" by Ornadel and the Starlight Symphony.


thanks, Cemmanio!

Attack of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi... for Super NES.

a HYPA television production

via No fat clips!!!

How to kill a chocolate bunny

"Chocolade haas is an episode from the preschool art project 'Big Art For Little People', made by Sander Plug and  Lernert Engelberts.
The series is produced by Cut-n-Paste for KRO Youth, in association with Dutch Culture Fund (Stifo)."

The video features the song "Aviva Pastoral" by Nathan Larson.

via Laughing Squid

Borrachos

An animation by Sam3, featuring music by Little Dragon.

via Wooster Collective