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Last post Author Topic: good Videos [short films] here :)  (Read 278862 times)

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #200 on: August 13, 2015, 03:34 AM »

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #201 on: August 14, 2015, 03:24 PM »

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #202 on: September 23, 2015, 04:55 AM »
Monsanto Lobbyist Runs Away When Asked To Drink ‘Harmless’ Pesticide:

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #203 on: September 24, 2015, 01:36 AM »
Monsanto Lobbyist Runs Away When Asked To Drink ‘Harmless’ Pesticide:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

Hahaha, that was priceless. Wot an idiot.

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #204 on: September 25, 2015, 01:55 AM »
Life Smartphone:

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #205 on: September 30, 2015, 03:31 AM »
The most easily scared guy in the world:

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #206 on: October 01, 2015, 06:02 PM »
 ;D

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :) - HUMANS (UK-made TV SF Series)
« Reply #207 on: October 07, 2015, 10:13 AM »
My rating:    :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
My Recommendation: Quite a good watch for SF fans.

Season 1 Episode 8 (the last one) is here: http://www.tv3.co.nz...at/4668/Default.aspx

It's about human-like androids secretly designed with inbuilt consciousness. What could go wrong?

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #208 on: October 12, 2015, 02:19 AM »
DarkHeart Productions' 2007 short The Black Button - the wonderful little movie that formed the basis of the feature length film The Box plus a host of imitators.



 :Thmbsup:


I watched this video 6 years ago and I have seriously been trying to find it ever since. I didn't remember the title; i thought it was gone. I was so excited when I found it! It's a great piece, I wish there could've been a movie made based on this idea.

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #209 on: October 12, 2015, 04:33 AM »
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #210 on: October 13, 2015, 04:03 AM »
I wish there could've been a movie made based on this idea.

It was made:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #211 on: October 13, 2015, 07:33 AM »
Based on the horror-themed game for Andrioid comes a 20-part demon hunting video series called Camera Obscura.

Fun and predictable. And containing all the favorite elements (i.e smart and pretty heroine, evil family legacy, the geekly and soft-spoken  would-be boyfriend, some cheesy special effects, etc.) - like most enjoyable horror stories do.

First installment here:



« Last Edit: October 13, 2015, 07:41 AM by 40hz »

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #212 on: October 26, 2015, 11:29 PM »
Many thanks to @Renegade for apparently posting the link to the Twilight Zone episode "Wordplay" by mistake to the discussion Re: Is the term "Negro" offensive or not?.
...One of the reasons that I love the Humpty Dumpty quote so much is that we **SHARE** language in ways that other things are not shared.
You don't get to change the meaning of a word by yourself.
It's nicely embodied in "Wordplay":

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The trouble is, I couldn't recall whether I had seen that episode, so I had to watch it, but then it auto-played the next in sequence and I had to watch that...and then...etc.

Curse you @Renegade!

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #213 on: October 27, 2015, 12:58 AM »
Oh, I know! That's a damn good episode, and probably one of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever.

It fits into discussions about language and linguistics just like the Humpty Dumpty quote from Through the Looking Glass.

And they are addictive... The series really nails so many different elements of human existence. The Monsters are Due on Maple Street is an excellent example.

My NAS is still down as I've not had time to get it up and running yet (need to rebuild and get a new drive), so I can't get to my collection there, which is probably good because I just don't have time for it right now. :D

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #214 on: October 27, 2015, 04:01 AM »
A bit of interesting insight into Cuba:

"Why Cuban cab drivers earn more than doctors"



Now I'm wondering if they have Uber over there? :P
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #215 on: October 28, 2015, 09:43 PM »
A refreshing video and only just over a minute long:



Yes... I just wanted to make you thirsty. :P
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #216 on: October 29, 2015, 05:14 AM »
A refreshing video and only just over a minute long:

[..]

Yes... I just wanted to make you thirsty. :P

damn, it's too early for beer ;)
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #217 on: October 30, 2015, 10:56 PM »
One of those interesting things summed up quickly in this mini-documentary:



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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #218 on: October 31, 2015, 03:43 PM »
^ very good :up:
seems to be mainly based on the Johan Hari TED talk (Hari + his book are mentioned at the end of the video) -- it's worth listening to as he does go into more depth.
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #219 on: November 02, 2015, 04:21 AM »
Compressorhead:


Run with Us:


Ride with Us:
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #220 on: November 18, 2015, 06:11 PM »
I'm not easily impressed but.... this blew my mind.
15 minutes, you won't regret it  :Thmbsup:

"The end of the world seems like a nightmare to Ben. A memory of a past life that doesn’t belong to him. When Ben starts to remember Isabelle, the only love he’s ever known, he realises she’s missing in his life. An existential descent into confusion and the desperate need to find out the truth begins. This reality depicts a stunning, surprising and dark world. A world that is clearly not his."


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« Reply #221 on: November 19, 2015, 03:13 PM »
^ very impressive :up:

EDIT// I didnt read the quote before watching -- I dont know if it came from the authors, but I was glad I hadn't read it in advance.
Spoiler
I presume the point of the film is that many of us live in a world that clearly is not "ours".

Tom
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« Reply #222 on: November 20, 2015, 07:53 AM »
I'm not easily impressed but.... this blew my mind.
15 minutes, you won't regret it  :Thmbsup:

A little more info on this one:

Here we are again: a short film with heavy use of VFX has attracted the eyes of a studio, which has bought rights to turn it into a feature. The short, Sundays, is described by its creators as “an ambitious philosophical science-fiction proof-of-concept short.” It’s pretty, I guess, but it also looks like a pastiche of a bunch of other recognizable concepts stitched together with glossy CG. (Think The Matrix meets District 9 as a basic starting point.) Nevertheless, Warner Bros. has now bought rights to the 14-minute short, and is making some plan to turn it into a feature.

The backstory here is a bit different than other similar-sounding situations. This isn’t just a short that came out of nowhere. It is based on the concept from a commercial director that a producer brought to agency UTA, which helped the director, Mischa Rozema, set up a Kickstarter to raise $50k, and it was shot and finished at the production and VFX house the director co-owns. The idea all along was to create interest in a feature version.

http://www.slashfilm...days-into-a-feature/

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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #223 on: November 20, 2015, 09:49 AM »
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Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Reply #224 on: November 30, 2015, 08:49 PM »
This is a must see.



Story of my piracy: It all had begun with sharing, it might end in the same way.

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