Animated Short Victor and Isolina is a beautiful tribute to the creators Grandparents

Director William Caballero has created a quirky masterpiece with Victor and Isolina! This story, told by use of 3D modeling, still pictures, beautiful cinematography and lovely music, is about the relation between the directors grandparents Victor and Isolina. It has that NPR: Storycorps vibe as the visuals chronicle the falling in and out of love

An android Bonnie and Clyde story emerges in The Trail’s End

I received an email containing a link to this unique film called The Trail’s End today. The story, written and directed by David Rosenbaum, puts two human-like androids in an 1930’s-1940’s setting and surrounds them in a Barton Fink-like scenario.  The Trails End kinda picks up where say…Blade Runner left off. The android character Clyde,

Short film The Gunfighter is like The Assasination of Jesse James…on WEED

I must start browsing Vimeo Staff Picks more often. This short film, The Gunfighter, directed by Eric Kissack and written by Kevin Tenglin is a brilliant comedy! The story is a spoof, of sorts, to some of those Ken Burns documentaries and other History Channel goings on, where there’s always narration to a dramatic historical

Bruce Lee vs. Donnie Yen in this fan’s tribute to two legends A Warrior’s Dream

What happens when a super fan of martial arts is also a very talented VFX artist. He creates a short film pitting two Kung Fu legends in the same room. Directed by Li Jin, A Warriors Dream is a totally animated film that begs the question, who would win in a fight between Donnie Yen

Wes Benscoter’s short Hold Your Fire takes bleak to a whole new level

Wes Benscoter started off his career creating album covers for bands like AC/DC, Slayer and Kiss, but since then he’s reinvented himself as a film director and a damn good one at that. Hold Your Fire reminds me of a video for all the bands I just mentioned so Wes’s final stage of evolution may

Animated short “How to train your Robot” does in two minutes what “Real Steel” couldn’t do in an hour

This is an exquisitely crafted short by the Platige Academy that demonstrates, first hand, what simple story telling is about. It’s starts with a well thought out idea and solid concept, then you find those whose vision fits the one your trying to create and then hope to God you guys get along and luckily

Short film ABE is creepy and fascinating

Remember when Commander Data got that emotion chip in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well imagine if Data got that chip, but it was crafted by Dexter voila you have this homicidal robot Abe. Oh, he just wants to be loved, but when it’s not reciprocated, he’ll will fix you, he’ll fix you dead. Abe

Wanna see the true inspiration for KISS’S 1976 hit BETH

As much as I would like to laugh at this, some of it has got to ring true. Maybe not for the song’s fictitious Beth, but for some unfortunate female who had the shit luck of falling in love with one of the members of KISS. The look and cinematography is impeccable, so despite the

Must Watch the strange and insane Apocalypse trailer directed by Andrew Zuchero

I heard about this film awhile back. It made it’s way around the festival circuits and now it’s hear. Director Andrew Zuchero isn’t on anyone’s radar yet or maybe he is, but I’m guessing after this trailer for Apocalypse starts spreading, which it already has, things are going to turn around for this lad. The

Science fiction short R’ha pits aliens against robots and the result is absolutely beautiful!

Here’s another youthful talent with designs on film domination and if this short doesn’t get him a movie deal, I don’t know what will. 22 year old animator Kaleb Lechowski has a gem in his latest project R’ha, a story about a race of aliens whose technology has turned against them. One word…breathtaking! This cat