sundance shorts available online

motodrom was pretty boring... I mean it was cool for the first few minutes, then it had cool shots. then it just was a gimmick. I'm really tired so like. everything feels 8 times longer.
 
Mike McNeese said:
Death of the Tinman was the best one on there that I've seen so far.
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This was a thesis project from my school; I was offered a bit part on the crew but turned it down since it was a terrible position. I almost wish I'd taken it so my name would be on the credits of a Sundance short. Oh well.

Anyhow, the creative team behind it is very cool, particularly the DP and producer... Also, it was shot on 64ISO stock with almost entirely prime lenses. Madness.
 
i really really liked the tinman one. i also watched jettison your loved ones on the guy's website, i really liked that as well.

Policar, what school is this from? is 64iso stock 8mm?
 
64 ISO is the speed of the stock, or how much light it needs to get a correctly exposed image. 64 ISO is very slow stock, which means you get finer grain, but you need 8-10 times more light than with the DVX or something. The short was shot on 16mm on an SR2.

I don't know if you can get 64ISO 8mm stock, but what's the point? It wouldn't look very good and would be hard to expose. Send me a PM if you have any more questions, but it's not my movie so I can't answer much more than I've heard secondhand from crewmembers.
 
Bomb is a thinker. The ending is tough, but in my opinion the movie is really just portaying childhood and adulthood. They have innocent fun at the begining of the film, but like a bomb, everything in his life surrounds him and blows up. Everything innocent is now gone.

That's my interpretation at least. Life is just a bomb waiting to explode...

Tinman is by far one of the best shorts I've ever seen. Imaginative, beautiful, intelligent, just straight out of someone's subconscience. I love it.
 
"The Tube with the Hat" is strangely entertaining. Nothing really happens, and it's like 20 minutes, but it's just funny to see the relationship between the son and the dad. It got the best foreign short film award.

The Tin Man was also very very good. How much do you guys think it'd cost to shoot something like that, camera+film+telecine+etc.?
 
I think it cost about 6 grand, but the camera (SR2) and lights were provided by the school. Not sure.
 
The Tinman was very Wes Anderson in style. The edits, music, narration, dialogue and even some of the visuals reminded me of Rushmore and The Royal Tenebaums. Of course Anderson's work influenced them, but they took it to the point of copying style. I still enjoyed most of it, especially the beginning.
 
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