The Spleenectomy, dir. Kirsten Smith.
I love Anna Faris. She combines the comedic quality of Jean Harlow and Carol Burnett, and yet is completely unique. In this adorable short, she plays a twin sisters: one a successful doctor, the other a bored, dumb housewife who dreams of being an actress. She recites lines form a soap opera in front of her genius young child, and through a strange mix-up ends up performing major surgery on a local theatre director. That might be a bit of a spoiler, but Faris is such an amazing performer. She knows just how far to go without making her characters into characatures.
The Intruder, dir. Mikael Kreuzrigler
I'm a big fan of ghost stories. I love being kept on the edge of my seat, clinging to the arm rests, waiting for something to come out of the shadows. In this wonderfully suspenseful short, a young woman comes home to find evidence of an intruder and her mother in an almost catatonic state. Anyone who has come home late at night knows that creepy feeling, know that the sounds and things you see out of the corner of yours eye are your imagination ... maybe. Kreuzrigler blends an amazing sound mix with shadows in mirrors which had me jumping in my seat.
Out of Control (Fuera de control), dir. Sofia Carrillo
This is one of the best stop motion animation films I've ever seen. I'm not even sure I could tell you what was happening. But that is irrelevant. It is gorgeous and sensual. Eyeless dolls cry in sepia tone print, a strange cavern reminiscent of hell in 'Orphee'; various other dolls and strange creatures inhabit this odd world. It's almost impossible for any description to do this film justice.
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