Academy Award-Nomiated Short Films

Hello, everybody.  Twitter has been working well for me; so much so that I rarely feel the need to blog much anymore.  But today I have something I really want to share.

On Sunday John and I went to the Alamo Drafthouse in order to watch all the Oscar Nom'ed (and "Highly Commended") animated short films.  I've always been a big fan of animated short films, and just started making a point of seeing as much as I could of them last year, back when I discovered that the Alamo shows them.  It really is a shame that unless they're Pixar-made they don't seem to be able to reach a wide-audience, as many studios refuse to share them on the web...usually for copyright reasons.

Anyway, the group of films I saw at the Alamo last year were much stronger - I loved "Lavatory-Lovestory" and I was fucking obsessed with "La Maison en Petits Cubes" which is fucking fantastic and I highly recommend you guys try to find it if you can - but 2010's group did have a few standouts.  My very favorite of the bunch was a French short called "Logorama," which since I saw it Sunday I've been desperately scouring the internet.  And today I found a full copy of it on some tiny (what appears to be) Dutch website.  Apparently the creators took six years to finish it, and right now they and the production studio are kind of shitting themselves as they *really* don't want it to be available online since it contains over 2,500 corporate and brand logos for which they never requested permission.

Well, I have no way of knowing how much longer this site will be able to keep this video up, so watch this ASAP!  I've never seen anything like it...

Logorama
16m Runtime