A lovely short-doc about a guy with a passion: soda pop. John Nese runs a shop with over 500 kinds of pop and he’s exactly the guy you’d want to serve you when you can’t decide which of the 15 Cherry Cola brands is right for you. Lovely! Watch the film here: Youtube: 5 out [...]
Fantastic short doc aimed at showing the breadth and depth of Getty’s Hulton Archive. The challenge for this director has been “how can you show photographs that don’t exist?” Watch the short below and witness the amazing solution to this challenge. Youtube: 5 stars (137 reviews) / 7 minutes Directed by: Laurie Hill
A violently honest shortdoc featuring home video footage taken by the director’s late father, a man who had a few things to hide. Although the editing is very rough and has a distinct “home made” feel to it, the effect of the film is nonetheless haunting. IMDB (awaiting 5 votes) / Official site Directed by: [...]
Short doc winner of CPH:DOX 2009. “Three Pilots” is a beautiful doc about flying and the people who enjoy it. Visually the film is quite poetic, but it didn’t really get to me. 7 mins. Directed by: Philip Leaman
I spotted this short doc over at The Documentary Blog. Simply put, it’s about baseball card collecting, something I don’t know the faintest thing about. It’s not a good introduction to somebody like me, but at least the format is original. Filmmaker Nozkowski has presented everything as first person P.O.V. Didn’t really work for me, [...]
Paul Mawhinney owns the largest record store in the world – and now it’s for sale. He owns records that aren’t available anywhere, lots of them! This is a perfect topic for a short doc, the subject matter couldn’t bear feature length and wouldn’t be half as rewarding as a news segment. It’s also got [...]
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