{"id":17120,"date":"2024-12-26T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17120"},"modified":"2024-12-25T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:20:03","slug":"shorts-watched-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17120","title":{"rendered":"Shorts watched December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’emission a deja commence<\/em> (2023, Bertrand Mandico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Puppet people talk about truth in media and introduce a series of pissing-fruit cartoons. How do you explain this sort of thing to potential investors?<\/p>\n

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\nThe Last Cartoon<\/em> (2022, Bertrand Mandico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kind of partly a cartoon – some abstract brightly-colored patterns – but the performance-art people take over, narrating in French and English about conflicting futures of cinema.<\/p>\n

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\nFour Unloved Women Adrift…<\/em> (2023, David Cronenberg)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The autopsy mannequins make heated moaning sounds.
\nMostly close-ups, only showing the full scene at the end.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Menacing Eye<\/em> (1960, Jerzy Skolimowski)<\/strong><\/p>\n

If my first short had been a stylish silent 2-minute backstage knife-throwing drama, I would also have grown up to become Jerzy Skolimowski.<\/p>\n

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\nLittle Hamlet<\/em> (1960, Jerzy Skolimowski)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A small group hanging around a half-demolished building plays out a silent slapstick story with musical narration which is sort-of a loose version of Hamlet.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Miu Miu Affair<\/em> (2024, Laura Citarella)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meant to be another fashion ad like the Luca<\/a> and the Lynch<\/a>, but LC makes a Trenque Lauquen<\/a><\/em> spinoff, a mystery about a missing fashion model that gets increasingly hazy and vague. it’s not great exactly, but it’s great for one of these.<\/p>\n

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\nLet Your Heart Be Light<\/em> (2016, Romvari & Campbell)<\/strong><\/p>\n

She trims the tree while half-watching Meet Me in St. Louis<\/em> on a laptop and drinking from her Chantal Akerman mug, then switches to a mix of trad-xmas songs before Sophy comes over to hang out.<\/p>\n

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\nI\u2019m Hungry, I\u2019m Cold<\/em> (1984, Chantal Akerman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The one who looks familiar is Maria de Medeiros (The Saddest Music in the World<\/a><\/em>), the less hungry one is Pascale Salkin of Gang of Four<\/a><\/em>. The most charming and fast-paced Akerman movie since Saute me ville<\/a><\/em>?<\/p>\n

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\nand some auteur music videos…<\/p>\n

PJ Harvey – I Inside The Old I Dying<\/em> (Cocina & Leon)<\/p>\n

The Wolf House<\/a><\/em> team creates the illusion of a days-long journey within a single room, so cool. Man gets chomped to death by a beast, man’s dog grabs one of his bones and buries it, it grows into a tree.<\/p>\n

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New Order – Blue Monday<\/em> (Breer & Wegman)<\/p>\n

The main things happening here are (1) Breer animation, (2) a dog balancing on furniture, (3) the band members being bothered by floating tennis balls. These things get integrated in fun ways (e.g. the band members watch a flipbook of Breer’s drawings of the dog).<\/p>\n

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The Breeders – Divine Hammer<\/em> (Richard Kern)<\/p>\n

The focus is on Kim pulling poses indoors, and the other three have a minor thread going on a tour of strip clubs. They should’ve cut out the shots of Kim as the Flying Nun.<\/p>\n

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The Roches – Hammond Song<\/em> (Lewis Klahr)<\/p>\n

Lewis does his clip-art mashup thing. Lucky me to find this right after discovering the group – I’ve been playing their debut album this week. He made this forty years after the song came out.<\/p>\n

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Mystical Weapons – Colony Collapse Disorder<\/em> (Martha Colburn)<\/p>\n

Instrumental guitar rock by Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier, the only song here I didn’t already know. More clip-art, the religious and planetary icons giving flashbacks to the Harry Smith shorts<\/a>. Faster cut than Klahr and with added digital glitch edits (or else my copy was defective).<\/p>\n

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