Please check out these five fine short films, brought to you through an exclusive Video Dog partnership with the innovative thinkers at Rooftop Films. Whether your bag is Shetland ponies or crazy dolphins, polka queens or naked cowboys, we bet you'll like the shows.
In "Tales of the Creepy Crooked," Lee Kern has created a series of shorts investigating the myths and mysteries of the British Isles. Here, he considers the horrifying tale of the Nyuggle.
The Polka King and the Polka Queen have a dream of uniting the world through heavily sequined costumes, colorful wigs and an avant-garde interpretation of an obscure Eastern European musical form. And that's the least of it. (Note: Short may take a few moments to load; the film is 7 minutes long.) Visit here for more of filmmaker ZZalgern0n's zany work. And tonight -- attention New Yorkers! -- come to Rooftop Films short film show Clowns and Rollercoastersunderneath New Yorks famed High Line, for more incredible circus shorts.
"I'm the epitome of success in the absence of talent," says the Naked Cowboy, a guy who, after 49 arrests in 49 states, finally found fame, a calling and a place at the table as a fixture in Times Square. Matthew Pond's short (7:10 minutes long) will be playing at Rooftop Films "New York Non-Fiction" show on Friday July 14, at Automotive High School in Williamsburg.
Read more about Rooftop Films here. And check out its summer festival schedule here.
We're extremely proud to present "Crazy Dolphins vs. the Mad Cows," by Ian Stewart, an animated exposé about how mad cow disease is now killing dolphins. Via karate.
We have no idea how they came up with this stuff, but we could listen to these kids spin their yarns all day long.
"Crazy Dolphins" comes to you through our new partnership with Rooftop Films. (The first film, "South Central Farmers," debuted Wednesday.) Read more about Rooftop Films here. And check out its summer festival schedule here.
Salon and Video Dog are very excited about a new partnership with Rooftop Films, a terrific Brooklyn, N.Y., group celebrating the 10th year of its film series, which appears on rooftops in and around New York City all summer long. We'll be screening at least one film a week, on Friday afternoons, from Rooftop's summer series. We know you'll enjoy them.
First up is "South Central Farmers," by Ross Guidici, about 14 acres of farmland in Los Angeles that helps feed 350 low-income families, and the farmers' battle with a wealthy land developer who has acquired the land and threatens to kick them off. [Spoiler alert: After the film was finished, the farmers lost their last appeal, and just today the land was bulldozed.]
Read more about Rooftop Films here. And check out its summer festival schedule here.