Maybe One Day

A man finds a reason to live in a life monotony and one day decides to just do so. This man realises his life is monotonous as he counts everything he does in a day, down to brushing his teeth, making tea, the weather. He yearns for change and questions his existence. After realising his need for change he decides not to walk for work, but instead to live which you no longer see the bored, drone like character but the free and ecstatic man that he yearned to be. He lived. Who doesn't want to feel like this sometimes?

The New Boy

This short film tells the story of a young African boy who's new to his class in an Irish school. The New Boy wonderfully interpolates the contrasts of colours between his old happy life in Africa, and his new life in Ireland. At first he finds it difficult to fit in as he is still traumatised from his life in Africa, but despite the traumatisation carrying on into seemingly innocent situations, compared to seeing his father getting murdered by the militia, he eventually gets along with the rest of the class with a touch of humour about the teacher and her ordering the class to raise their hands whenever something happens. Enjoy. It almost brought me to tears :O

Assassin's Creed: Lineage

Released in time to coincide with the release of Assassin's Creed 2, Lineage sets the scene for what happens in the storyline before Desmond Miles jumps into the Animus again and relive the story of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in number two. In 15th century Firezne, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze uncovers a plot to assassinate the Duke of Milano. From this he discovers a conspiracy that reaches as far as Rodrigo Borgia, the future Pope Alexander VI, and with the help of Lorenzo di Medici Il Magnifico, attempts to stop them in their tracks. This for me is a brilliant short film, not least for the fact that I'm a personal Assassin's Creed fan, but the way they use green screen effects with rendered environments of 15th century Firenze and how the darking lighting effects fits in with the mise-en-scene, as well as it's fictionalisation of true historic effects, such as the Duke of Milano conspiracy, along with, as Giovanni's son Ezio finds out in Assassin's Creed 2, a conspiracy to murder Lorenzo di Medici. This short film however cannot, and does not, prepare the viewer, and indeed the player, for how Assassin's Creed 2 ultimately ends however...

Lifted

I do wonder what's better about this short, the lighting or the humour?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQYQOzSMsRQ