SHORT FILM

This Oscar-Nominated Short About An Upside-Down Marriage Is Must-Watch

If you haven’t gotten a chance to watch Timothy Reckart’s Oscar-nominated short film Head Over Heels, make some room for it in your day. It’s a strange and sweet stop-motion story about two married people who have drifted apart so thoroughly, each thinks the other one lives upside down. We featured Head Over Heels when…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 18

Hollywood, Make This Alien Whale Hunting Short A Full-Length Movie ASAP

Ruairí Robinson directed the critically panned Last Days of Mars and was once attached to direct the live-action Akira movie, but he’s best known for his short films. Still, after seeing jaw-dropping this proof-of-concept teaser for The Leviathan, we want a feature-length version of Robinson’s monster-hunting film. Robinson has directed a ton of delightful shorts,…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 17

This Oscar nominated film about a couple growing apart melted my heart

Sometimes life—and love—seems to pass before your eyes at the speed of light. One day, you wake up and realize that the person you’ve been living with for years has changed so much that they’ve almost become a stranger. Head Over Heels is an Oscar nominated stop-motion film by Timothy Reckart that perfectly depicts that…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Mar 17

An Obsolete Robot Falls In Love With The Model Designed To Replace It

C-29 was content to move packages along the assembly line until one day, when a shiny new model appeared on the opposite side of the conveyer belt. What happens next is extraordinarily sweet — and more than a little sad. Charlie Davies created Magnetism, and it feels a bit like WALL•E and EVE meets Romeo…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 16

Short film: What if you wake up one day and the whole world hates you

Sequence—a great short film by Spanish director Carles Torrens—starts with a guy waking up one day. The girl he loves hates him because she had a terrible nightmare where he was doing something utterly horrible. They argue, he leaves to work, and finds out the whole world had that exact same dream and hates him…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Mar 16

Hilarious Parodies Of 1920s Films Featuring Dogs Instead Of People

In the late 1920s, somebody at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had a really strange idea: making short comedy films poking fun of recent films by replacing all the human characters with trained dogs in clothes. Here are all nine episodes made between 1929 and 1931 known as the “barkies.” All of the shorts were directed by Zion Myers…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 13

What If You Found Out That Everyone Dreamed About You Last Night?

Here’s a short film that plays like an ultra-violent Twilight Zone episode. Billy wakes up one morning to learn that his girlfriend had a really messed-up dream about him the night before — and she’s not the only one. Strangely, that’s not the weirdest thing that happens to Billy over the course of his day.…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 13

Short Film About A Robot Adrift In Space Is A Meditative Work Of Art

The Long Slow Flight of the Ashbot may span just four minutes, but its monologue takes place over millions of years. A robot, floating about in space, contemplates its place in the universe, but only when it receives enough starlight energy to think. This film is part three in director Colin West McDonald’s series The…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 12

If You Could Relive A Relationship’s Best Memories, Could You Move On?

Henry can’t stop reliving his favorite memory of his girlfriend Sophie (played by Jena Malone) in the short film Memory 2.0. But his obsession may pay off when he realizes she’s left a message for him inside his brain. Memory 2.0 was directed by Dugan O’Neal and co-stars Wilson Bethel as Henry. We’ve seen quite…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 11

This opera filmed inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider looks quite epic

Symmetry is a dance and opera film that was directed by Ruben van Leer and was shot inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider. It looks pretty epic and totally intriguing with some scenes feeling a little bit like Interstellar. The film will premiere on March 15 in Amsterdam. Symmetry is a dance and opera film…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 10

A love story filmed exclusively looking down on a bed

Jack Tew and Sorcha Anglim came up with such an awesomely creative way to tell a love story and one that makes so much sense: From the sole perspective of the bedroom. The short, Me & You, is filmed completely from the ceiling of the room, giving you a bird’s eye view of the entire…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 5

This Disturbing Post-Apocalyptic Cartoon Won A Danish Academy Award

Ten years ago, a plague wiped out all of the women and children in a secluded mountain town and transformed the men into monsters. Now only two orphans, Albert and Jonas, remain, hiding from the monsters and telling tales of the girl who will save them all. This short is most definitely NSFW. Also, content…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 4

The Way This Animated Short Film Plays With Perspective Is Hilarious

This short film is incredibly short and deceptive simple, but what it does in under two minutes is great fun to watch. An alien arrives on Earth and changes the perspectives of a man and his dog — not just metaphorically, but visually. Chris O’Hara made A Different Perspective, and I find myself watching it…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 3

Meet A Couple Who’re Living The Most Explosive Life Ever

Fans of oversized explosions, please enjoy Kaboom!, a documentary about Rich and Dee Gibson, who’ve spent the past 30 years creating intricate pyrotechnic displays for air shows. (They met skydiving.) It’s short, surprisingly sweet, and full of loaded observations like “Fire has real life of its own.”

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 2

The Truth Behind The POWER/RANGERS Short, And How You Helped Save It

Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 2

Hilarious short film rips action movie heroes apart

Californian directorJustin Lutsky makes fun of movie’s action heroes in this hilarious short film that is almost like a check list of all the clichés in the genre. SPLOID SELECTS is a serieswhere we feature awesome and interesting short films we love. If you are a filmmaker with awesome short films you’d like to showcase,…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Mar 2

An Animated Short About A Hard-Fought Battle Between Light And Darkness

Short film Chronemics, by London animation studio Animade, is set in a world where robot-like stick figures who dwell in light and darkness push against each other, with surprising results. The animation is simple, the tone is cheeky, and who knew stick figures could have so much personality?

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 1

Update: Insane Power Rangers Short-Film Reboot Is Back Online!

Joseph Kahn’s excellently dark Power Rangers fan film is once again available for online viewing after a brief dispute with the franchise’s copyright holder. All it took was a disclaimer (on the NSFW Vimeo version) and an age restriction (on the “safe” YouTube version). View both here! https://gizmodo.com/holy-hell-this-power-rangers-reboot-is-dark-as-f-ck-1687689958 Update…yes, another update. The NSFW version has…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Feb 28

A Tim Burton-Inspired Short About A Little Girl Who Gets A Pet Piranha

Pets can be an excellent way to teach kids about responsibility and how to treat living creatures, but not all pets are a great idea for kids. And when the little girl in this cheerfully macabre short film accidentally ends up with murderous piranha instead of a goldfish, things get bloody very quickly. Jordan Blum…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 26

When A Children’s Author Makes Her Book Darker, The Characters Rebel

Miranda is a children’s book writer who just can’t seem to sell her book, Danny and the Wild Bunch, even though she has regular conversations with its main character. But when she tries the editors’ suggestions to make her story “darker” and grittier, Miranda’s life becomes darker as well. Robert Rugan wrote and directed Danny…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 25

This Oscar-Nominated Short About An Upside-Down Marriage Is Must-Watch

Hollywood, Make This Alien Whale Hunting Short A Full-Length Movie ASAP

This Oscar nominated film about a couple growing apart melted my heart

An Obsolete Robot Falls In Love With The Model Designed To Replace It

Short film: What if you wake up one day and the whole world hates you

Hilarious Parodies Of 1920s Films Featuring Dogs Instead Of People

What If You Found Out That Everyone Dreamed About You Last Night?

Short Film About A Robot Adrift In Space Is A Meditative Work Of Art

If You Could Relive A Relationship’s Best Memories, Could You Move On?

This opera filmed inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider looks quite epic

A love story filmed exclusively looking down on a bed

This Disturbing Post-Apocalyptic Cartoon Won A Danish Academy Award

The Way This Animated Short Film Plays With Perspective Is Hilarious

Meet A Couple Who’re Living The Most Explosive Life Ever

The Truth Behind The POWER/RANGERS Short, And How You Helped Save It

Hilarious short film rips action movie heroes apart

An Animated Short About A Hard-Fought Battle Between Light And Darkness

Update: Insane Power Rangers Short-Film Reboot Is Back Online!

A Tim Burton-Inspired Short About A Little Girl Who Gets A Pet Piranha

When A Children’s Author Makes Her Book Darker, The Characters Rebel

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