{"id":11670,"date":"2016-12-31T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2016-12-31T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T19:42:09","slug":"favorite-shorts-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11670","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Shorts of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 200+ shorts this year, so this took some figuring out.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11274\">The Exquisite Corpus<\/a><\/em> (2015, Peter Tscherkassky)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Masterworks of Avant-Garde Film<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blu-ray from Flicker Alley needs its own section, or else its individual films would&#8217;ve dominated the shorts list.  Some revelatory works, beautifully restored.  Links to the writeups, and my favorite creators from each:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11263\">Part one<\/a> &#8211; Robert Florey, Ralph Steiner, Jay Leyda, Fischinger, Watson &#038; Webber<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11260\">Part two<\/a> &#8211; Maya Deren, Rudy Burckhardt, Bute &#038; Nemeth<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11261\">Part three<\/a> &#8211; Jim Davis, Hilary Harris, Bruce Baillie, Francis Thompson<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11262\">Part four<\/a> &#8211; Larry Jordan, Bruce Posner, Brakhage &#038; Solomon<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Lumi\u00e8re!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only watched part of the disc so far, so look for the second half to turn up on next year&#8217;s list.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10858\">Chapters 1 &#038; 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11322\">Chapters 3 &#038; 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10915\">Der Apfel<\/a><\/em> (1969, Kurt Weiler)<\/strong><br \/>\n5. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11131\">Father and Daughter<\/a><\/em> (2000, Michael Dudok de Wit)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Animations by Rein Raamat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10915\">Lend<\/a><\/em> (1973)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11133\">a bunch more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11227\">Piper<\/a><\/em> (2016, Pixar\/Alan Barillaro)<\/strong><br \/>\n8. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11274\">Black Soul<\/a><\/em> (2000, Martine Chartrand)<\/strong><br \/>\n9. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11274\">The Danish Poet<\/a><\/em> (2006, Torill Kove)<\/strong><br \/>\n10. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11321\">Jammin&#8217; the Blues<\/a><\/em> (1944, Gjon Mili)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11. <strong><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10914\">Four by Vuk Jevremovic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11372\">Uncle Yanco<\/a><\/em> (1967, Agn\u00e8s Varda)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13. <strong>By Brakhage, Volume 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10861\">Program 2 (1967-1976)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11063\">Program 3 (1972-1982)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11327\">Spies<\/a><\/em> (1943, Chuck Jones)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10888\">Carmen<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10888\">Papageno<\/a><\/em> (1933\/35, Lotte Reiniger)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10915\">False Aging<\/a><\/em> (2008, Lewis Klahr)<\/strong><br \/>\n17. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10849\">Lorenzo<\/a><\/em> (2004, Disney\/Mike Gabriel)<\/strong><br \/>\n18. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11274\">Harvie Krumpet<\/a><\/em> (2003, Adam Elliot)<\/strong><br \/>\n19. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11329\">Blinkity Blank<\/a><\/em> (1955, Norman McLaren)<\/strong><br \/>\n20. <strong><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10886\">We Can&#8217;t Live Without Cosmos<\/a><\/em> (2014, Konstantin Bronzit)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 200+ shorts this year, so this took some figuring out. 1. The Exquisite Corpus (2015, Peter Tscherkassky) 2. Masterworks of Avant-Garde Film This blu-ray from Flicker Alley needs its own section, or else its individual films would&#8217;ve dominated the shorts list. Some revelatory works, beautifully restored. Links to the writeups, and my favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}