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Ikea: Time for Change

Director Mike Maguire of Biscuit Filmworks UK sends some grizzled old garden gnomes on the offensive as Ikea-loving home-owners turn their world upside-down.

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Polar Spirits

Ole C. Salomonsen has made his third short film about the northern lights, shot in Norway, Finland and Sweden with Canon DSLRs and time-lapse gear from Dynamic Perception. 

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Hello There

He didn't always have his own HBO specials and a show on FX to use as a creative outlet. Check out this early (1998) short film from Louis C.K. about the alienating effects of not-so-modern technology.

Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Episode VII Filibuster

Shot at full-length for this week's episode of NBC's Parks and Recreation, here's an improvised "citizen filibuster" by comic (and noted Star Wars fan) Patton Oswalt, whose character crashes a city council meeting with his ideas for a Star Wars/Marvel … more »

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Red-Band Trailer: Netflix’s Hemlock Grove

Netflix has taken a page from the playbook of horror-movie marketers, creating a NSFW sex-and-drugs-infused "red-band trailer" (mimicking the more-explicit trailers cleared only for R-rated audiences by the MPAA) for its new series Hemlock Grove, executive-produced by hardcore horror-meister Eli … more »

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Iron and Wine: Joy

Director Hayley Morris says her music video for "Joy" is about how love for another person can change the way you perceive the world. She told NPR she projected hand-painted watercolor animations into a stop-motion set to get lush colors … more »

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They Might Be Giants: “Nanobots”

Don't critique the lo-fi VFX work — just enjoy the end of the world at the hands of tiny, tiny robots in this new music video for They Might Be Giants, directed by Sifl & Ollie's Liam Lynch.

Trailer: Elysium

Here's the trailer for Elysium, the new one from District 9 director Neil Blomkamp. Once again, it's an SF movie, and, once again, social subtext abounds.

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Trailer: Behind the Candelabra

The next (last?) movie from director Steven Soderbergh is an HBO biopic starring Michael Douglas as Liberace: Behind the Candelabra. "They said it was too gay," Soderbergh said, explaining why the major studios passed. "It made no sense to any … more »

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NAB 2013 Video: Red Digital Cinema

Get your Red fix with a quick update from Ted Schilowitz on what's up at the NAB booth, courtesy James Mathers and the Digital Cinema Society, who are again covering the show in partnership with StudioDaily. Watch this space for … more »