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The Foxhole Manifesto The Foxhole Manifesto
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 250 seconds

Jeffrey McDaniel tries out some ideas for new modern gods. (Now with a revised soundtrack.)

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I Wanna Be Famous I Wanna Be Famous
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 164 seconds

Here's a helpful song by Jessica Delfino. She's discovered a guaranteed shortcut to everlasting fame--watch and learn!

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A Good Joke A Good Joke
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 195 seconds

This short is based on an old joke, a perennial in compilations of Jewish humor. Although the details differ between versions, the scene remains the same: a priest challenges a rabbi to a debate on the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other's language, and...well, I won't spoil the punch line.

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Meal Meal
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 302 seconds

This short is about an argument over dinner, an argument that goes around in circles. What's unusual is that the dinner goes around in circles too; what's eaten by one combatant comes out of the mouth of the other, so neither the eating nor the fighting ever has to end.

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Mother of All Bombs Mother of All Bombs
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 105 seconds

I'd seen pictures of it before, but an especially dramatic photograph caught my eye on a magazine cover in the grocery store. It almost looked like another vegetable: a brilliant marigold-orange "fuel-air" bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon on the market.

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An Iconoclast An Iconoclast
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 185 seconds

The letters used in this short fell off a movie theater marquee one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1998. They'd originally been part of some grand, meaningful words, but now they were stranded and helpless. So I gave them a new home.

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The Story of Enoch The Story of Enoch
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 69 seconds

Enoch receives a premonition of disaster, so he sets out to collect as many books as he can find, to preserve the knowledge of the world. But, lacking reliable divine guidance, all his careful preparations come down to a straight-ahead, all-or-nothing gamble....

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Techniques for Managing Anger Techniques for Managing Anger
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 160 seconds

"Remember, you never need to solve the problem right now." Apparently, no problem could possibly arise that this handy video self-help pamphlet is unprepared to deal with.
This short, a dance for camera, was created at the Point Park Conservatory in Pittsburgh, choreographed by Doug Bentz.

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Six Premonitions Six Premonitions
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 133 seconds

Here are six very short films made in the six months leading up to the Second Iraq War.

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Aleph/Bet Aleph/Bet
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 103 seconds

What if you're offered only two options, and neither of them are any good? The poor creature in this short can't hope to understand that it's trapped inside a completely arbitrary system.

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Some People Never Learn Some People Never Learn
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 125 seconds

Here's a kinda-creepy collage of pictures and sounds assembled automatically by a Lingo script, all at least tangentially related to my childhood in Huntington, West Virginia. I'm really not sure quite what to make of it.

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Bird\ Bird's Eye Bull's Eye
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 113 seconds

The painter in this short may think she's only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it's all going to lead....

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High Places High Places
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 179 seconds

Photographer Dafna Levy took a picture in 1992. It showed a cheerful yellow billboard bearing a syrupy poem about the beauty of mountains, something you scan quickly and break off reading about halfway through. It took me a minute to notice the barbed wire, and a minute more to realize where this photo had been taken...

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Peace Through Strength Peace Through Strength
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 68 seconds

In which the Panther and the Owl sit down to negotiate an agreement...

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All About the Magnet All About the Magnet
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 35 seconds

"Is the nail attracted to the magnet?" "Yes!"
This oddly martial drill on the properties of the magnet comes to us from an old, damaged album of '50s educational songs. I just couldn't help imagining what the recording session must have looked like, and out came this little cartoon.

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Open Quote Open Quote
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 169 seconds

Have you ever looked at a sentence until it stopped making sense? For this short, I took a bit from a little-known Lewis Carroll poem, and repeated it until it lost any kind of meaning.

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Manipulations Manipulations
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 167 seconds

If you search for a needle in a haystack for too long, you start to get bored, then tired, then angry. If you get angry enough, you might even throw the whole haystack away, but then you've lost the needle forever...

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Fast Voyeur Fast Voyeur
Posted by: n1ckFG

Video duration: 215 seconds

I began to take a video camera out at night and peek into hundreds of other people's windows, just for a few seconds at a time. I wasn't sure quite why I was doing this...

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