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Short Film Friday – Fresh Guacamole

Fresh Guacamole is a short, stop-motion film by PES of Western Spaghetti fame. Clocking in at a little over 1 minute 40 seconds it entered the record books this year for being the...

Short Film Friday – Borderland

Dick is right. “Every American should see this.” It is real and it is striking. In some places it stands 18 feet tall and looks like the gates of Mordor. In other places,...

Short Film Friday – Blinky™

The first of our weekly short films to be featured is Blinky™, the latest short from Ruairi Robinson who’s film Silent City we featured a little while back. Blinky™ sees a return to form and as such...

Blue & Orange Action/Adventure Movie Poster Trend

Here at DailySlandered we’ve highlighted a few trend in movie poster design before (here, here and here). This time around we’re exposing the Hollywood trend of using high contrasted teal/blues and oranges in...

The Split Face Movie Poster Theme

After we posted our articles on ‘Common theme in chick flick film poster design’ and ‘Common theme in horror poster design’ we’ve been keeping our eyes open for further themes. The split face...

The Horror Eye Film Poster Theme

Following our post on chick flick poster design we began looking for similarities in the film posters of other genres. We headed straight for horror and skipped straight past the theme into a...

Unknown vs Naked Lunch (Spoilers)

I know what you’re thinking. What connection or thematic similarity can the film Unkown (2011) have with the book Naked Lunch (1959). They fill wildly different genres and were created for entirely different...

A Common Theme in Chick Flick Poster Design

I recently noticed that Pride and Prejudice had a very similar poster design to Atonement. Both shared a horizontal, central band holding the film’s title Kiera Knightly’s mugshot in the top right....

Ben Briand Film and Interview

Back in June 2010 we posted Apricot, a beautiful short from Australian director Ben Briand. Since then he has won Vimeo’s Best Narrative Film, and the Cannes Film Festival Young Director Award. We...

Alma (Short Animation)

Alma is a beautifully animated short film written and directed by Rodrigo Blaas (frequent animator for Pixar). Despite its soft and rounded character style and Dr. Seuss-esque wonky architecture style the plot develops...

Frozen Heist

Frozen Heist is a short ptomotional film for the Philips Cinema 21:9 television we featured last week. Seriously, Philip’s can’t put a foot wrong right now. The camera pans around a frozen scene,...

Rare Exports – Short Film

Ok, so for many of you Rare Exports wont need an introduction. But here goes anyway. In old Scandanavian mythology, Santa punishes the bad kids along with treating the good kids. Jalmari Helander...

The Third and the Seventh

Alex Roman’s short ‘The Third and the Seventh’ includes some of the best CG animation work we’ve ever been fortunate enough to stumble across. It stands apart from its counterparts because of its...

The Silent City

Short films are often centred around human emotion and interaction. Using the short time they have to build up a relationship between the viewer and the characters. Our favourite shorts couple this staple...

Jamie Bolton’s Minimilist Film Posters

We stumbled across Jamie Bolton’s minimalist poster for ‘The Shining’ recently and fell in love. The corridor scenes from Kubrick’s classic sit amongst the most iconic cinematography of the 20th century. The long...

Honeymoon – Short Film

Honeymoon, directed by Miranda Bowen, synopsis goes something like this “A newly wed couple arrive at a service station in the middle of the night. Zoran (the husband) disappears to make a phone...

Banksy Vs. The Simpsons

Matt Groening and the team have opened up their famous opening scene for an artist to rework, and the first artist they have chosen is Bristol’s own underground hero, Banksy. Of course, Bansky...

Gone Goodbye – A Short Film

I would definitely spend the 5 minutes or so watching ‘Gone Goodbye’ before you continue reading. Although I’m only going to introduce the film and some of its themes, I’d hate to give...

The Man Who Walked Around The World

Ok, so I’m a bit of a Robert Carlyle fan, his readings of Robert Burns’ poetry for the BBC displayed a class of acting that Cage and Cruise can only dream of! Having...

Notre Jour Viendra – Romain Gavras

Romain Gavras, perhaps best known for the “most controversial music video of the year”, has released the trailer for his first feature length. Although it doesn’t give much away, Gavras’s eye for composition...

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