Does anyone know of a horror short film/ ad/ preview from the 80s wherein a fisherman at the edge of a lake bites into an apple he finds on the ground, realizes there is a line coming out of the apple... [more inside]
posted by joechip on Oct 9, 2009 - 12 answers

Hive mind, please help: I'm thinking of a short ballet film that came out in the 1970's (1975?). There is no plot -- it's basically a pas de deux, set to Pachelbel's Canon in D. [more inside]
posted by Araucaria on Feb 26, 2009 - 5 answers

About 9 years ago, my brother and I saw a short animated film on the Independent Film Channel (he says). It was about floating robot-things residing in a place similar to that of the one Homer went to the time he slipped into the third dimension. Our heads are exploding, because we cannot figure out what this freaking short was named, or anything else about it. [more inside]
posted by Coatlicue on Aug 18, 2008 - 4 answers

What's this short film? [more inside]
posted by rocco on Jul 31, 2008 - 0 answers

Help me find inspiration for my gangster short [more inside]
posted by carefulmonkey on Mar 25, 2008 - 17 answers

Many years ago, Saturday Night Live used to showcase short films as interstitial material between skits. One of these was a take off of In Cold Blood, done in black-and-white, and depicted two men waiting outside a house in the dark, smoking, then donning ski masks and going up to the house, ringing the doorbell, and when the startled home owner opened the door announced "You're going...skiing!". At this point the film cut to stock footage of skiiers at a ski resort, uh, skiing. Does anyone remember this short film? What was it called, who made it, and most importantly, where can I get a copy, preferably on DVD?
posted by motown missile on Jan 11, 2008 - 9 answers

Help me find this short film about a fast moving car... [more inside]
posted by rocco on Oct 13, 2007 - 3 answers

I am looking for the title, and the comic who may have written, but certainly acted in, a short film about a man's search for the prizes he won as a boy either while selling seeds or ordered from the back of a comic book. [more inside]
posted by Gungho on Sep 8, 2006 - 5 answers

Digital Distribution Filter: It seems that the video on the internet can be put in two groups - the DIY (low production value) and the "produced" (iTunes, etc.) content. I'm pretty sure DIY content producers don't make any $, whereis "produced" content always needs to recoup. What kind of deals do iTunes or AtomFilms make for independently "produced" short film content, e.g. how much of that $1.99 does Apple keep? [more inside]
posted by andrewyakovlev on Aug 18, 2006 - 1 answer

Please help me identify this short film. I saw it on PBS about 15 years ago. It involved a society where time was literally money, and this time was linked directly to your lifespan. [more inside]
posted by MasonDixon on Nov 26, 2005 - 5 answers

I know this may be quite a stretch on the little info I remember, but back in the mid 80s, there was a Japanese live action short about 2 toys that escaped from a toy store. I vaguely remember one was a camera or a pair of binoculars with glasses on it. I believe I saw it on PBS or on The Disney Channel.
posted by pieoverdone on May 9, 2004 - 5 answers