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Come on, it will be fun!!!!

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you too!!!

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Sh*t I got called out!!

MM, I summon you!!!

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I like this idea, and I definitely have time to watch some short films, but I don't really know of any to nominate since I don't typically watch them.

Sorry bud, I'm not into shorts:p

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I AM INTRIGUED

thanks for the summoning!!

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annnd nom is sent in!!

I'm thinking about this HoF, but most of the shorts that I watch are animated, (Looney Tunes, Pixar, etc.). The last time I joined the Shorts HoF, I watched more shorts trying to find something to nominate than I watched in the actual HoF. :lol:

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:p that's the main objective to these things gbg, to get to know new things! XD And animated shorts are welcome!

You still have time to find something you like! :) The IMDb Shorts Top 50 has some really interesting things!

I will join this. It is going to give me an excuse to nominate something that I won't be able to nominate otherwise, I suppose. :) I don't plan on it being loved, but it may, at the very least, be liked (but I personally love it :)).

I will get that nomination to you in a little bit.

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is there spiders, @Camo?

I hate asking anyone to change their nomination, so Thank You for the offer. I'll let you know if I decide to join.


That would be my guess. :eek:

Thanks. I'll let you know. :)

Now you have me worried as to what these 3 things are. I don't normally talk about what I can't handle seeing, but I still like to be prepared. :)

I'm joining this! I just send my nomination :)

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So, we have 5 participants so far, 6 if gbg decides joining as well. If this number doesn't go up in the next few hours I'll ask everyone who joined to send a second nomination so we reach at least 10 shorts.

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cool with me! Either way.

Not sure if I'll be back on later today so I'll get the 2nd one (if needed) Monday

I'm just going to go ahead and send you a second nomination because I know after I get off of here I won't be back on tonight, and there is a good chance I won't be around tomorrow at all. I may eventually make an appearance, but as of right now, I don't know.

We are 6 now, counting with Dani8! :) @gbgoodies, will we have the pleasure of your company?

In any case, I'll ask everyone who send their first nom, to send a second one! 6 or 7 shorts is way too little!

@MovieMeditation, I haven't forgotten! :p

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I'll see what I can do. First I need to find a nom... TWO noms. Let me work on it.

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I can think of another tropfest one. Also really funny, although some may wonder how the hell it won.

I just sent a nomination. If I had seen this post first I would've found two.

I can decide on a second now if you'd like.

I know my second one will be liked more than my first. But I still like my first nomination a lot. :)


I gave neiba the links to both, if he wants to post them. But I decided to do that because I don't want people to end up watching the wrong videos. And there is a wrong video to watch for both of them.

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I sent my second nomination as well. The first is on Youtube (and is not to be confused with a film of the same name from the following year), and the second is on Vimeo. I included the links in my PMs to Neiba in case they're going to be embedded/linked to in the nominations post.

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Thanks everyone! :) A nice HoF seems to be emerging!! :)

I'm sorry that I didn't reply to this sooner, but I've had a very busy weekend, and I haven't even had a chance to think about what to nominate. (I have one specific short in mind, but I haven't had a chance to see if it's available to watch anywhere without buying the DVD, and I haven't thought about a second short at all, or a replacement if the first short is unavailable.)

If this is still open tomorrow night, (probably late tomorrow night), I'll join, but if you're ready to start before then, you can start without me and I'll just watch the shorts from the sidelines.

Camo, if you don't want to change your nom, that's okay. Unless it's basically a short version of Arachnophobia, I'll get through it somehow.

You still have some time gbg, don't worry! :)

We'll wait for gbg and for @Titu and @edarsenal to send a second nom and we'll start! :)

If anybody new wants to join, will be welcome.

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just sent my second nom in.

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I'll be interested in seeing what you guys picked. I never followed the other short Hofs, so this will be interesting.

It'd be even more interesting if you joined! :p

gbg, Camo told me what the scary part is. I think you'll be fine.

Question, do I need to PM the yt linky, neib or do I just link when you call for my nom that week?

If you could pm the link would be great! I'll try to put it on the main thread when I announce the noms!
As soon as gbg decides if she's joining we'll move forward.

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Yes, he did Camo! :)

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Done. Mine are very short shorts. Hot pants even.

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I think I'll monitor this from the sidelines this time, but I'm really curious about what the noms will be. And Neiba, if you need a tiebreaker or something, let me know, I'd gladly help out.

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Aaand CR just got in! :) We have now 7 participants (possibly 8 with gbg), which mean 14(16) shorts to see! :) I took a peek in some of them, we're in for a treat! :)

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SWEET!!
WELCOME ABOARD, CR!!

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Awh, I come late. Already close for new entry?

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depending on the time zone, you MAY still be able to. Send Neiba a PM with 2 noms and see what he has to say.

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Oki doki, thx edarsenal :) - in my timezone it's already 11 now that's why T_T

I'll quickly prepare my noms and see what neiba has to say

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:)

I sent my two noms, and I included links to their IMDB pages and the videos on YouTube.
Thanks for waiting for me. :)

And we have our nominations!!!

They're on the 2nd post!

Here's a list if someone needs it:

The Rink (Charlie Chaplin, 1916) nominated by edarsenal
The Mistery of the Leaping Fish (John Emerson, 1916) nominated by Citizen Rules
A Dogs Life (Charlie Chaplin, 1918) nominated by Camo
Never Weaken (Fred Newmeyer, 1921) nominated by Silent Vamp
The Three Stooges "Pop goes the Easel" (Del Lord, 1935) nominated by edarsenal
Peace on Earth (Hugh Harman, 1939) nominated by Silent Vamp
Bomb (Aleister Grierson, 2005) nominated by Dani8
Atmenah a.k.a Make a Wish (Cherien Dabis, 2006) nominated by Citizen Rules
Everything will be OK (Don Hertzfeldt, 2006) nominated by neiba
Inaka Isha a.k.a. Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (Koji Yamamura, 2007) nominated by resopamenic
Spider (Nash Edgerton, 2007) nominated by Camo
Tsumiki no ie a.k.a. The House of Small Cubes (Kunio Katô, 2008) nominated by neiba
Animal Beatbox (Damon Gameux, 2011) nominated by Dani8
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (Hideaki Hanno/Shinji Higuchi, 2012)
The Ventriloquist (Benjamin Leavitt, 2012) nominated by gbgoodies
Envelope (Aleksey Nuzhny, 2012) nominated by gbgoodies
Paperman (John Kars, 2012) nominated by Titu
Dust (Ben Ockrent, Jake Russel, 2013) nominated by CosmicRunaway
Feast (Patrick Osborne, 2014) nominated by Titu
Flankers (Justin Oakey, 2014) nominated by CosmicRunaway

Just watched Spider, good stuff!! Will do a write up soon! :)

About the runtimes, I was going to do that but I forgot. Thanks for the reminder!

June 18th

You're an angel, Camo! :p

Already sent a PM to CR, to see if he knows where it is! I couldn't find it!

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I'm really looking forward to watching these!

A quick note on my nominations: if you know nothing about Dust going in, don't look up anything about it; just watch it! Don't even look up the IMDB page for it because the one line written in the synopsis is a spoiler.

Flankers is a Newfoundland short film shot in a couple of real outport communities. Be prepared for rural Newfoundland accents.

I'm very excited to start watching these. This should be fun!

My 1st short is: Make a Wish (2006).. Atmenah(original title)


I seen it on the DVD extras of the movie Amreeka (2009) by Cherien Dabis. So if you can find that DVD you got to for the price of one. It was on Vimeo, but apparently it's been removed. So I hope this is not a problem. I looked for it at a few sites but couldn't find it. If it proves to be impossible I will have to find another short.

LOL glad you liked them. There was controversy about animal beatbox because the guy who made short called Cats and Dogs (I think) said it was a rip off. I can't remember how that was sorted out, but it all went quiet.
Tropfest is an outdoor short film festival in Sydney. I think the guy who runs it set one up in NYC but I havent heard about that since.

http://www.coolevents.com.au/assets/Tropfest.jpg

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OK I'm going to get Spider out of the way first because I know the title wont continue freaking me out for the rest of the day :up:, and because it's an Edgerton.

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Oh man, you got me, Camo, and it wasnt the title. There will be a reckoning, my good man!!!

That was very well made.

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GBG will be happy to hear that:p

I cant say more for spoilers, but wow they did a good job with that. And it's not really 9.30 long. End credits are about 1.30.

Holy snapping duck doo doo. Good choice.

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Glad you liked it!

I think I'm going to have to change my nom Atmenah I can't find it online. Sorry about that.

I'll send cam a pm because I want to comment but dont want to spoil.

Yes, you can PM me.

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Disney's Feast next. I need to mke a coffee then wtch something cute.

That's my nom, hope you like it :)

Thanks but I dont want to spoil that short. I PM'd Camo.

Tht little film gives a high octane hit. Works better than a triple espresso.

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Very cute, Titu, but I;m not getting the punchline, or is there not meant to be one? Very cute boston terrier.

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Are we only viewing 2 per week or is it ok to \scoot forward? And should we view in order because I;m doing what Cam did and watching the shortest first just so I get used to watching lengthier shorts on my laptop.

The dealine is calculated with 2 per week, but you can watch them all today if you want to! :p

I'm also doing that, with some exceptions!

Have you seen Spider yet, Neibs? I'm still on a high from that. Curled my hair.

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Spider

So, I wasn't expecting this at all! Dani is right, it totally surprises even when you think you know what will happen! It's a very nice short movie, thanks Camo.

Animal Beatbox

Didn't find this particularly funny! The animation is interesting and it sure is catchy but apart from that, I haven't found nothing that I liked a lot here.

Bomb

This is funny! I kind of saw where it was all going the moment the guy put the shirt on his head but I still found the ending very funny! It's really well done!

Paperman

This was nominated on a previous Short HoF, I think, and it wasn't new to me then, so this is at least the 3rd time I'm watching it.
It has the typical animation of Pixar and its typical quality. Short but very beautiful! :) This will do well here, I foresee!

Pop goes the Easel

It's a very funny short film from the Three Stooges with its trademark physical humour, I laughed at some parts even if this kind of jokes have been remade countless times since 1935.

nimal Beatbox caused a real stir when it won that year. Very divisive. As I said to you in my pm, I feel it was the maker giving the bird to Polson (tropfest organiser) for choosing shorts that give him maximum media attention and discussion, but that was just my take. I dont know if that's true, or if Damon was just having some silly fun, but it makes me laugh to view it that way.

Bomb I loved when I first saw it and still makes me laugh. In the spirit of full disclosure because I dont want to be seen as a shill - I know the cast and crew of that. I have not been paid, even a piddly beer or t shirt, for plugging that.

Spider was amazing. I thought I knew what was coming but I was wrong...so wrong. What a ride.

edit to add - Bomb was a pisstake at a very expensive campaign by the then PM of Aus about terrorism. Be Alert Not Alarmed, which freaked a lot of people out, and pissed a lot of people off. Typical irreverent aussie humour.

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Paperman is a really sweet uplifting lil film. I need more of that with the current state of play in the world. Who nom'd that?

I had no idea how much fun this would be.

Titu again. Nice job young fella.

I have seen, including mine, 6 of these films already. And if you think you know me well enough, it wouldn't be too hard to figure out which ones are the other 4. There was only one other one that I'd heard about. But these all seem pretty interesting to me.

I will begin (and probably will be finishing :) ) watching next week.

Yeh I've got Bear up to view, and Nash is indeed Joel's brother. Also involved with Blue Tongue Films.

I'm a spoiler free zone, Cam, except to say it's sooo good.

And you'll laugh at my PM. Surprised I didnt wake up my husband or make the dogs bark.

LOL. Still laughing at how hard you got me. And I know it totally unintentional. Going to check Cosmic's nom in a sec.

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I thought about joining and nominating a Buster Keaton short, but I just can't handle my load right now.

Cool to see The Mystery of the Leaping Fish nominated, it's a weird ass film. I'll be rooting for the Hertzfeldt short, but I doubt it will have much success.

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Ohh Dust was great. Looking forward to debriefing once everyone sees it. This is going to be a tough vote. Great to see Rickman again.

And that's it for me until later in the day. Have to go and get nuked for a scan but will keep reading ny further posts.

Animal Beatbox (2011)
Dir. Damon Gameux
This was quite amusing, and rather creative (regardless as to whether or not the idea was original, as per the controversy mentioned earlier in the thread). It reminds me of the sort of videos that became massively popular on the internet in the pre-Youtube days. That stuff has become a dime a dozen over the last decade, but it's still fun to watch.

Bomb (2005)
Dir. Aleister Grierson
I wish this had been named something different, since it's easy to see where the film is going fairly quickly when you have that title in mind. That said, the journey towards the inevitable ending is still entertaining, and that's the most important part. I hope I'm not the only one who laughed at the end.

Dust (2013)
Dir. Ben Ockrent, Jake Russel
Like I said before, it's best not to know anything about the plot going into this, so I'm not going to spoil the reveal. What I like about the film is the build-up to that point, the sinister vibe underneath it, and the anticipation of waiting to see what exactly is going to happen. And of course, the late Alan Rickman is always a pleasure to watch, even if it's just for a few minutes.

Flankers (2014)
Dir. Justin Oakey
Despite being regarded as a very friendly province, the people who live in rural Newfoundland have a tendency to be incredibly prejudiced against people from other outport communities. These are places that are still fairly isolated with very few resources and a harsh climate to deal with, so while the residents definitely look after their own, they don't take too kindly to outsiders from neighbouring communities, especially if there has been a dispute between the two in the past.

Flankers, which I only saw for the first time the other day, tackles that subject matter head-on. I was actually really surprised by the honest portrayal and the lack of emphasis placed on the theme of “coming together against adversity” that is disgustingly common in practically everything about Newfoundland. Seeing it underplayed here was really nice. In case you're wondering about the relevancy of the title, “flankers” is a local word for those active fire embers that pop up on their own. Given how troublesome Newfoundland dialects can be to people not familiar with them, if you have any issues with understanding the dialogue, just let me know and I can translate it into common English for you.

Paperman (2012)
Dir. John Kars
The link provided for Paperman did not work for me (it would only play about a minute of the video), so I watched it elsewhere on Youtube. While this was kind of cute at the start, I don't typically find those ridiculous romantic comedy films to be very amusing, so I kind of lost interest in this the longer it went on. I can certainly see the appeal to people who like those kind of films, but it's just not my cup of tea. It was nicely animated though.

Spider (2007)
Dir. Nash Edgerton
I really enjoyed this. I was engrossed from the opening quote (attributed to mum because everyone's mothers have said that line at some point haha), to the amusing and unexpected ending. This is another film you really just need to see for yourself, so unfortunately there's nothing else I can really say about this other than for you guys just to go watch it.

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two great surprises today, reading through the 13th HoF and seeing the noms and THEN doing the same with this thread ---- SWEET!!!

You should have joined so you could put my nom on top of your list!!!!

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I encourage everyone to use the SPOILERS tag, so everyone who already saw the shorts can discuss freely!

corrected!

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There's another. That happened to me as well

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I wasn't sure what it was meant to be about. Gluttony perhaps.

Paperman has better animation. Reminded me a bit of fantasia animation.

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With paperman I found a Spanish version. Will link whenci get home if you haven't found it.

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Lol at your spoiler for dust. I thought exactly the same on all your points. Rip to a magnificent actor. What a loss.

What did you think of paperman.

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Oops I'm on my phone and missed it. Very cute short.

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo

Damn, this looks stunning!!! It's a Ghibli production so I was with my hopes pretty high but I surely wasn't expecting this!



The only bad part about this it's that it's too short! I wanted it to continue!!!

This will do well on this HoF, I think!

That's weird, I just watched it there with a pretty good quality! :/

Have you tried changing your browser?

Another one with a huge surprising at the end.



There isn't much to say that isn't spoiling this, but it's a really nice short movie!

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Peace on Earth

A charming cartoon, that may have been pretty scary for kids at that time. WW II was about to start so this must have created some impact.
I found the ending, with the bible thing a little bit preachy but in general I quite liked it! The soundtrack is cute!!

11 watched, 9 to go!

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Peace on Earth. That sure sneaks up on you. Beautiful animation.

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I haven't watched anything yet. I do remember an animated short that I seen once on a DVD extra, about the end of the world brought on by fighting and I recall mice in a bombed out church...was there such a scene in Peace on Earth?

Old school animation but with squirrels? That would be it. It's from 1939. Very well done I thought, but I agree with neibs it would have been pretty scary back then for little kids.

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Squirrels, could be what I was thinking of. I will watch it soon and see. If it's the same one that I recall, I was very impressed with it! I've never seen another animated short like it. Now! I'm very curious to watch it.

I'm changing my nom as, Make a Wish isn't available online. It's too bad as Make a Wish is a wonderful Palestinian film about two young girls, sisters...who set out to buy a birthday cake for their mother. It's quite well done, but not available unless you can get the DVD of Amreeka (2009)

So I am replacing it with:
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) - 13 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVatbWZpmPw

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The Ventriloquist. Anything with Spacey is a good thing. Great choice, gbg.

7 or 8 I think. Just making a coffee then will watch the monster in tokyo one. I'm really enjoying this, camo.