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1) New boy
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Oscar-nominated short comedy (based on a story by Roddy Doyle) poignantly captures the experience of being the new kid in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine-year-old African boy.
2) Sorry, Rabbi
Publisher
Prospector Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After a fight with his girlfriend, Josh finds himself confronted by a group of angry Hasidic Jews.
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swedish
Description
Detailed and humorous account of a failed bank robbery. A single-take where over 90 people perform a meticulous choreography for the camera. The film recreates an actual event that took place in Stockholm in June 2006.
4) Ave Maria
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
An Israeli settler family crash their car outside an isolated convent in the occupied West Bank. Their only hope of getting home rests with five nuns who have taken a vow of silence.
5) The crush
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (16 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this Oscar-nominated short film, we follow Ardal -- an 8-year-old schoolboy who's in love. There's just one problem. The object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene, Ardal is heartbroken. His reaction, though, is a little unexpected. He challenges Miss Purdy's boyfriend to a duel -- to the death.
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Hungarian
Description
Based on a true story, this Oscar-winning short film follows an award-winning school choir and the new girl in class facing a tough choice: to stand up against a corrupt system, or to fit quietly into it. SING is a childhood musical drama set in 1990s post-socialist Budapest, Hungary. Zsofi is struggling to fit in at her new school and singing in the school's famous choir is her only consolation, but the choir director may not be the inspirational...
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents them with two baby chicks to care for. Raising their tiny charges, declaring themselves vegetarian and dreaming of running a chicken farm, the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Narratives from 1912-1913: D.W. Griffith's For his son, Lois Weber's Suspense, and Thomas Ince's The heart of an Indian, all mastered from beautiful 35mm film elements.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Curtis Harrington, widely regarded as one of the important avant-garde directors of the 1940's, as well as an early influential figure in what would come to be known as New Queer Cinema, was born in Los Angeles in 1926. He began making films as a teenager, often deeply surreal, intuitive, and owing much to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in film studies, his unique career trajectory led him from the academic...
11) New beginnings
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 11 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Seven early cinematic experiments of Lumiére, Georges Mendel and others, including Cyrano De Bergerac (1900), generally believed to be the first ever film produced with both color and sound.
12) Uncle Elephant
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
62 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uncle Elephant comes to the rescue when his nephew's parents are lost at sea and cares for him until they are found again.
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (16 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this Oscar-nominated short, a man seals himself off in 17th Century plague-infested London to escape the danger of infection. When a little girl seeks his help his life is turned upside down.
14) God of love
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (19 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this Academy Award-winning short, a lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion finds his prayers are answered - literally - when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, LA FEMME ET LE TGV is about a lonely woman who kept a secret routine every morning and evening -- for years, she's been waving at the express train that passes by her house. Inspired by true events and starring legendary actress Jane Birkin, Elise finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence...
16) Call of cuteness
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (4 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
All that is outsourced and kept out of sight, gets back to us in this consumerist nightmare. On a global playground the cat's body is devoured. Objects are fetishized & subjects made into things. They are the natural resources of a luxury they'll never know. The bodies reveal the causes and effects of power, pleasure and hate.
17) A single life
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (3 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.
18) Bon voyage
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (24 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
A couple's compassion is put to the test when they come across a sinking ship of refugees while on a pleasure trip across the Mediterranean. Winner of Best Film and Best Live Action Over 15 Minutes at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, Best Short Film and Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Film Festival, and the Swiss Film Prize for Best Short Film.
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Catalan
Description
A festival favorite LGBT short film from Spain about a group of boys spying on their neighbors. The heat's bearing down on the high-rise rooftops of the suburbs. Every day at the same time, five boys climb to the top of one of them to stare at the house next door. Like clockwork, a woman appears, removes her clothes and proceeds to sunbathe in the nude. But this day something's different. On the roof next door, a naked man seeks relief from the heat...
20) Sunday 1287
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2016
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2016?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blue-ray) (10 min.) : stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vanessa’s family takes her to her boyfriend’s apartment so she can leave him, this time, for the last time. Sunday 1287 is based on the experiences of the Brooklyn-born writer/director, a former NYPD Precinct Commander who is now the Chief of Police of Burlington, Vermont.
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