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Happy Halloween from Starship! To kick off the day, here’s a spooky little film called The Body, featuring Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen as a killer who realizes Halloween is seriously useful for covering up his crimes. Via Short of the Week: With a killer premise (pun fully intended) and star power in the form […]
The Los Angeles Metro has debuted a new PSA called Superkind, starring a superheroine who tries to encourage people to be nicer to fellow commuters. Via Gizmodo: There is no torture quite as horrible as having to deal with the sociopaths on public transportation who seem to have no idea how to exist in the […]
Others Will Follow is a great sci-fi space exploration short by Andrew Finch about the last survivor of a Mars expedition. Via Space.Com: “As I was writing the short, I was thinking about how NASA had parked its spaceships in museums in the decades since the contingency speech was written. Most humans alive today didn’t […]
It’s nearly Halloween, and these “Bite Size Horror” films from Mars Candy brands are some of the best horror ad shorts in years. Via Adweek: The films are very well made. Obviously, it’s easier to present something convincing when you don’t have to squeeze the brand or product into the plot. (The giant product images […]
This year’s most powerful anti-bullying PSA ad is from Burger King, of all brands. Shot in-store, it’s timed for National Bullying Prevention Month. Via Adweek: You’d think the idea of bullying a Whopper Jr. would be too goofy to work, but in the end, it does work—more memorably, in fact, than many other anti-bullying ads. […]
Will Ferrell’s darkly funny DeviceFreeDinner ads on behalf of the nonprofit organisation Common Sense Media highlights a common social problem. This campaign is a latest in a series encouraging people to use their phones less at dinner. Via the Washington Post: The group, which has done extensive research into how devices affect kids and families, […]
In this 30 min Max Joseph animated short, Joseph explores whether you need to be a tyrant in order to be a successful leader. Via Short of the Week: From most any vantage point, Max Joseph is a wild success. Through pieces like A Brief History of John Baldessari and 12 Years of DFA, Joseph […]
Tile, a bluetooth tracker, launched its first major ad campaign. By Deutsch and Mark Molloy, it’s a sad, sweet saga of a lost panda called Ernie. Via Adweek: “When we lose something and then find it, it’s an indescribably good feeling,” Deutsch executive creative director Guto Araki tells AdFreak. “But how could we tell that […]
Human Flow is the latest film from director, artist, and famed political dissident Ai Weiwei, with a close look at the refugee crisis. Via The Intercept: I want the right of life, of the leopard at the spring, of the seed splitting open I want the right of the first man –Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet […]
Fox and the Whale is a beautiful animated short by Robin Joseph and Kim Leow, about a magical meeting of different species. Via Variety: The credits for Robin Joseph’s animated short “Fox and the Whale” are incredibly brief. The 12-minute blend of computer and hand-drawn animation was mostly done by Joseph himself and his partner, […]