It is disgustingly hot and sticky outside. While you're keeping cool during this heat wave do something to keep yourself sharp, like enhancing your cinematic repertoire.

The American Short Films collection by Cinema 16 is one great way to do just that. Short films are an integral part of the independent film movement but more often than not they fall into the shadow of their larger feature length brothers and sisters. This collection is an excellent introduction into the short art form and includes the work of many well-known directors and artists, including Tim Burton, Peter Sollett, Andy Warhol, Rawson Marshall Thurber, and George Lucas.

Particular favorites of mine include Sollett's Five Feet High and Rising, a film that follows one teenage boy and those connected to him through simultaneously mundane and momentus events, and Terminal Bar, the documentary and incredibly well designed "slideshow" by Stefan Nadelman that chronicles the life of one of the toughest bars in New York City. Definitely check it out.

# posted by Megan Bright @ 8/03/2006 02:11:00 PM

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