Andy Lambert, the genius behind Mute, a series of 12 very short films that perfectly capture the kinds of moments too many major filmmakers have forgotten exist in our lives, can’t be praised highly enough. These “episodes” are true, funny, poignant, meaningful.
We love ’em!
And urge ye to make thy way to the Mute website so you can love ’em too!
We have to admit it. We’re suckers for superhero origin episodes. Just as we’re suckers for indie video and, of course, just about anything animated.
For example:
Last time we looked, there were 6 episodes on YouTube. Check ’em out and let us know whatcha think, okay?
Now this is what we call a truly high concept logline:
In the magical town of Neverland Ohio, Peter Pan, a late 20’s man-child cartoonist, is forced to face growing up or losing his long time crush, Wendy Darling, in this Romantic Comedy reimagining J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan.
Got it? Nah, you only think you do. This series is even better after you see it. And now there’s a lot more to see because after a first season of 24 five-minuteish episodes and an epilog, our favorite web romcom is back with Season Two.
As many of you already know, I’m a partner in a Thai animation studio start-up called Southeast Asia Animation. SEAA is the home of a group of Thai animators calling themselves the Thai Kaeng and their Big Boss, a 17 year old genius currently living in the leafy green state of Oregon.
In as short a logline as I, as SEAA’s Senior Advisor, can give it, Thai Kaeng Anime is a combination of new ideas and deliberately old school methodology geared to achieve two purposes – the entertainment and amusement of the audience and the fulfillment of its creators’ need to function as true artists.
In other words, the Thai Kaeng isn’t just sitting around drawing and writing, its using drawing and writing and all that to meditate and become one with the universe, while at the same time conjuring up the craziest, funniest, scariest, bloodiest stuff its members can get jammed into their brains from out there in the void.
This is clever stuff – even if you aren’t a film student and have never seen or heard of film noir.
The Pantsless Detective, Season 3 wants us all to know where the credit for it belongs. (Does this mean nobody got paid?)
Starring:
Tom Chamberlain as Det. Richard Panceliss/Father Panceliss
Dipu Bhattacharya as Smitty/Narrator
Amy Lewis as Temperance Friday
Rebecca Robinson as Constance Trustworthy
Brian Sierer as Sgt. McAdams
John Stanhope as Thug/Bruno Weisenheimer
J. Kevin Smith as Junior Detective #2
Tony Salinas as Junior Detective #3
Craig Kanne as New Thug
Martina Ohlhauser as Mother Panceliss/Phem Faye Tall
Miles Baade as Young Panceliss
Leigh Newsom as Waiter/Shower victim
Django as Guard Dog