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Salute Your Shorts: Dan Harmon's Channel 101 Shows

By Sean Gandert on 1:00 PM on November 6, 2009

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.For any longtime fans of Dan Harmon’s work, Community is a surprise. Not the fact that it’s good, no, that’s something that we could all be pretty sure of. It’s that the show, a relatively conventional sitcom, could come from the avant-garde co-founder of Channel 101, whose prior claim to fame involves shows such as Computerman and Laser Fart. He’s long been a superstar for a relatively niche group of Los Angeles filmmakers and comedians,...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Paris, je t'aime

By Sean Gandert on 5:00 PM on October 29, 2009

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Anthology films have been around since at least 1932, when Grand Hotel won the Academy Award for best picture. It’s only recently, though, that micro-anthology films have become a fad. Previous works had compiled various shorts, but these shorts were rarely less than 20 minutes long and because of this were frequently no less accomplished than features themselves. Even when films themselves weren’t made in this fashion, they’ve sometimes been grouped together simply because non-feature...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Mira Nair's Short Films

By Sean Gandert on 5:34 PM on October 22, 2009

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored. Criterion’s new DVD/Blu-Ray release of Monsoon Wedding offers not just a beautiful new print of one of the most successful foreign films ever released in America, but also a majority of its directors short films. Its seven shorts span the length of Mira Nair's career, from just out of school to last year. Perhaps moreso than her feature work, which has included some films that seem made more obviously for pay rather than personal...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: How to Become a Man/Woman in Educational Short Films

By Sean Gandert on 12:30 PM on October 8, 2009

One of the most neglected (for a good reason) genres of film is educational shorts. In a nutshell: They’re pretty terrible...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: The Coen Brothers' Short Films and Commercials

By Sean Gandert on 1:00 PM on October 1, 2009

Since the 1980s, pretty much every director has cut their teeth on short works before moving into features...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Wallace and Gromit

By Sean Gandert on 2:00 PM on September 24, 2009

Begun while director Nick Park was still in college...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: The Office Webisodes

By Sean Gandert on 3:05 PM on September 17, 2009

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Even the studios stopped denying several years back that television’s not doing so hot. Having atrophied viewership due to the internet and video games, the medium’s no longer the one stop free-entertainment shop it used to be, meaning that if people in the industry want to keep their jobs, they’d best think up ways to tap into these newfound interwebs to keep their advertising from drying up completely....  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Shane Acker's "9" and Other Early Works

By Sean Gandert on 4:30 PM on September 10, 2009

When one of your friends tells you they’re going to write a book, it’s easy to think to yourself, "Sure, go ahead, waste that time putting out something..."  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Bill Frisell Scores With Buster Keaton

By Sean Gandert on 2:30 PM on September 3, 2009

At least as far as the general population is concerned, silent movies sound like an old, tinkling saloon piano, featuring not so much musical scores as background noise to avert boredom...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Chantal Akerman's "Saute ma ville"

By Sean Gandert on 3:30 PM on August 28, 2009

Like Neill Blomkamp and Jacques Tati’s shorts the last two weeks, Chantal Akerman’s first film, “Saute ma ville,” is best understood in relation to one of the director’s feature films...  read more

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