Shorts
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'KNIFE'
Fuck fracking. Or at least that’s the tone of the short film KNIFE by James M. Johnston. The film is efficient, telling it quick and to the point with a bit of flair. There’s a party, a shirtless man and woman, fighting, evil laughs, an...
VICE Is Back in the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance's NEXT Weekend Festival is happening right now in Los Angeles. It's like the sunny, West Coast little brother of the original Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Two of VICE's short documentaries, 'Death of the American Hobo' and 'The Only Record...
Brand-Funded Films and the Trailer for 'La Passione'
James Franco collaborated with Gucci to bring his mash-up vision of a Theodor Dreyer-style Joan of Arc with high fashion and motifs from the Day of the Dead to life. Check out the inaugural trailer for his crazy new short, La Passione, and read...
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Bydlo'
'Bydlo' is an animated nightmare, where man becomes a slave driver and ultimately drives himself into the ground. Director Patrick Bouchard’s animation steals the show, as he breathes life into everything from water droplets forming and arid earth...
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Tastes Like Chicken'
'Tastes Like Chicken' is Quico Meirelles's riveting short, which tells the story of a chicken living in a factory farm who miraculously becomes self-aware. As the chicken achieves lucidity, she desperately searches for meaning in her life and struggles...
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'I Love Sarah Jane'
'I Love Sarah Jane' opens with a beautiful tracking shot that follows timid young Jimbo, played by Brad Ashby, as he rides his bicycle through a zombie-infested world while brandishing a bow and arrow. But as apocalyptic and gruesome as it begins, the...
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: Asparagus
The no-faced protagonist flows effortlessly through her over-stuffed, ostentatious home filled with pussy shaped lights and red velvet curtains covering fields of big dick surrogating asparagus, leaving us to wonder, “Why isn’t this woman masturbating...
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Removed'
This short is the ultimate cocktease. Director Naomi Uman uses the film to examine the female form through the reappropriation of vintage porno. But before you break out a bottle of Jergens, you should know that you don't actually see the sexed-up...
The Return of Georges St. Pierre
Reigning welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre will be back in the ring for UFC 154 on Saturday, facing interim champion Carlos Condit. Will it be a dream fight?
The Write Stuff
On the whole, sports writers are a sedentary lot. Outside of George Plimpton, few football writers play football. But getting in the ring helps to better understand MMA fighters, and it's also strangely relaxing. My mind is never so quiet as when I’m...