The opening scene is almost breathtaking: a boy rides through a wasted town on his BMX, the sun is shining and everything is quiet, he’s carrying bow and arrows on his back. Of course I already know this is a zombie movie and the scenery indicates that he’s not on his way to practice.
By the typical zombie conventions, he’s probably on a food run or something – but no. He arrives at his friends’ house where a zombie has been tied on the lawn. They’re taunting it, threatening it, slapping it as it growls helplessly back at them.
The film is really thoughtful; in stead of focusing on zombies and the danger/horror they’re able to instigate, it comments on humanity and (as I see it) the development of trans-apocalyptic cultures by focusing on a group of kids: This is a world where (most) kids grow up fast.
Blue-Tongue Films‘ I Love Sarah Jane was written by Spencer Susser & David Michôd and directed by Spencer Susser.
Originally, Zombie Punk was a webcomic (and still is). The comic tells the story of Nurdt Nobrain’s afterlife. In her own words, “[t]he story begins at the end, with Nurdt’s death and passage to a strange afterworld.”
Volume one of the comic begins with a prelude questioning who Nurdt Nobrain and his spouse, Curtly Loathe, really were. But that’s not included in the video.
The (first?) video (which accidentally fascinates me) begins with Nurdt Nobrain’s suicide.
As he lies pondering whether “somebody puts the gun away before the baby comes home”, he realizes that his brain is splattered all over the room. From here, I imagine, the story will continue into a maddening surreal journey of drugs, fame, sex and undead existential crises. Regardless, It’ll be interesting to see what Rebecca Migdal comes up with next.
I’ve known about this film since it was shown (and won a competition) at Breakpoint in 2008 because I know some of the guys in JUNK. And now the time has finally come to mention E.T.A, an animated short film.
Like everything Nemobay blogs about, E.T.A. can be downloaded and/or watched for free. However, if you intend to use it for anything else than watching, be it screenings, remixing etc., be sure to contact them and hear what they have to say before doing so.
Overall, it took JUNK four years to complete E.T.A. and I have no idea whether that’s normal so I wont comment on it.
‘Nuff said, so I’ll leave the final words to JUNK:
“Marvin has the most boring job - ever. But all is not as it seems…”
Here are some videos that really kind of made my morning special. They don’t particularly have anything in common. Actually, I think you could argue that they’re complete opposites.
The first video is a music video for Bacon by BFF, the song is about the military industrial complex and bacon (I think). And it has zombies in it, which has made Zombie Info comment that it contains “2 of [his/her/their] great loves in one song… Zombies AND Bacon.”
The second video is called Morgenrot. Morgenrot is a sort of art movie mostly featuring a burning piano plunging slowly towards its doom and clips from the Library of Congress. It was directed by this guy Jeff Desom. I can understand why people recomend this video on the basis of Hauschka’s music.
Ever wondered how you’d do in a zombie attack? Sure, there are tests you can take, but do you really trust them? Isn’t it better to see it for your own self? Why take a boring and faulty test when you can just click your way through a short movie?
As we all know, movies portray reality much better than tests do since they also have pictures and sound. That’s why Nemobay highly recommends hauling your ass over to The Outbreak’s page to take the ultimate test - and watch a zombie short too!
I don’t know what else to say really. This is really something else and I’m kind of sorry I can’t supply much more information about anything, but the page is not that big on information. However, there is a MySpace page you can check out if you want to know more.
I will though add that The Outbreak, according to Bloody-Disgusting, was created by “Chris and Lynn Lund who run the Portland, Oregon web design-and-animation studio SilkTricky (www.SilkTricky.com).”
The Extinguisher was directed by Graham Rathlin in 1996. It is a fairly old film by Internet standards, yet, it is worth a view. According to its submission info on YouTube it was “[p]artly shot at the old Beckton gasworks in East London ( now gone ) where Kubrick shot Full Metal Jacket.”
The movie takes place in a postapocalyptic world where smoking is banned. This of course has severe consequences for the people who still smoke (remember, this is the future). Since it is a short movie and I don’t want to spoil, this is a short post. Suffice to say; I recommend it.
