Director Phillip Van talks “She Stares Longingly”

Even among the other stunning shorts in the Little Minx Exquisite Corpse series, Phillip Van’s “And She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost” stands out. Hypnotic, texturally gorgeous, and quite devastating, She Stares is the clearly the work of a massive young talent. Van graciously answered our questions about his fascinating background, artistic process, [...]

What happens when short film directors play tag

Wikipedia can explain exactly what Exquisite Corpse Little Minx is a hell of a lot better than I can, so I’ll get out of the way and let the wellspring of all human knowledge do what it does best:
In Late 2007, Littleminx.tv released a series of five short films by emerging directors Laurent Briet, Chris [...]

Fresh Fish

Jeen Lee’s Fish, an extraordinary short that combines live action with CGI to tell the story of two roommates, is the newest winner of the Crackle Shorts Contest. Jeen took some time out from her work at PSYOP, an animation ad agency, to answer our questions about her deft pastiche of the real and the, [...]

The stages of zombiehood

A great, clever little short that condenses the horror, suspense, and drama of 28 Days Later or Dawn of the Dead into a minute and a half. And you can show it to your kids, which, unless you’re testing social services response times, you shouldn’t do with 28 Days Later.

The Infected is from Waverly [...]

Tennis comedy makes a, wait for it, racket

High school sports comedy. Four words that go together like graham crackers, marshmellow, chocolate and fire; four words that mean GOOD TIMES AHEAD. Advantage Hart is a high school sports comedy par excellence, like Varsity Blues to the power of John Tucker Must Die, with a dusting of Adam Sandler.

Director Jeff Seibenick has an [...]

Video game violence

There’s an argument out there that violent video games are breeding a vicious generation of sociopaths. It’s hard to tell whether Young Gun, about a video game-obsessed 15-year-old hitman, advances or satirizes this view. Decide for yourself:

Young Gun was a winner at the 2007 Duke City Shootout.

Jenn Garrison: “It’s an exciting time to be a creator”

With a foot in the Lone Star state and a foot in queer theory, Jenn Garrison makes undeniably unique short films – The Funeral Singer and Checkout are two of the most daring, strange, and affecting shorts on Crackle. We got a chance to talk to her about her experience as an outsider filmmaker, the [...]

Let’s question the nature of reality, brah

So Five Minutes Ago is a time-traveling adventure starring a couple of duuuudes who can’t really figure out what’s going on with their homemade time machine. Exactly like Bill and Ted, you say? Kind of, but less actual time travel and more dimestore metaphysics.

Dina Chapman’s short was a winner of the 2007 Duke City [...]

Quick quiz

A multiple choice question:
The Crimes of Mister Lowry takes its primary visual influence from ___.
A. Blue Streak
B. Sin City
C. Mr. Deeds
If you answered B., you are correct. The Robert Rodriguez fan would be the talented young Marlon Torres, who is already running his own shop.

A horrible future

Ever have a day where you feel perpetually ignorant of changes that happened a long time ago? Last night during the Oscars, I loudly demanded to know why Marlon Brando hadn’t been in anything recently. These guys can relate:

Two Years Ago is from The Wasted Potentials, who have a bunch of videos on [...]