Shorts We Love :: To Be Loved by Mike Vargas
A look into what happens when a perfect song sends you off into a new dimension.
A look into what happens when a perfect song sends you off into a new dimension.
A Mike Vargas Short (2019)
Music: The Pentagons - "To Be Loved" (1961)
Edited entirely from stock footage.
Short Films We Love :: 'Mindless Crowd' by Jacco Kliesch
This one hit us pretty hard as we seem to be getting into more conversations about the pitfalls of social media and the feelings of isolation associated with society’s quest for interconnectedness. Lesson of the day: Unplug, laugh a lot, have more sex, spend as much time as you can with people you love, repeat.
This one hit us pretty hard as we seem to be getting into more conversations about the pitfalls of social media and the feelings of isolation associated with society’s quest for interconnectedness. Lesson of the day: Unplug, laugh a lot, have more sex, spend as much time as you can with people you love, repeat.
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About
'Mindless Crowd' is a collage of drone footage combined with a voiceover from the 1960s. The short film is examining the different patterns and formations which human civilization has shaped on the surface of planet earth. It therefore is using only one consistent perspective – the top view.
A film by Jacco Kliesch (2019)
Based on a speech by Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
Shorts We Love :: “Incident by a Bank" by Ruben Östlund
Shot using a single camera, 90 people meticulously recreate a failed bank robbery that took place in Stockholm in June 2006.
**Don’t try this at home**
Shot using a single camera, 90 people meticulously recreate a failed bank robbery that took place in Stockholm in June 2006.
Written & Directed by Ruben Östlund
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“Incident by a Bank” is a unique instance of life imitating art (the real robbery), only to be later imitated by art (the film itself). However, the line between fact and fiction only got blurrier after the film was released, according to an anecdote from Östlund: “During the shoot I had a couple of extras film the robbers with their cellphones. That material was used as a promo for the film. Half a year later, I get a link from a friend who watched an American TV show called ‘The Top Ten Dumbest Criminals in the World.’ In seventh place, they used the clip from the shoot, claiming it was authentic material.” Should we really be that surprised?
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