Although a really good short film can catapult a director into feature filmmaking, much like Gil Kenan’s short film The Lark led to the chance to direct the CGI film Monster House for Robert Zemeckis and the just-completed live action The City of Ember , film festivals often show short films that most audiences won’t have a chance to see anywhere else. Fantastic Fest had a shorts playing in front of many of the features, and they also had two separate shorts screenings: Short Fuse for live action shorts, and Animated Shorts for, well… animated shorts. On first glance, the long-titled The Facts In The Case Of Mister Hollow doesn’t appear to be animation, but slowly you come to realize that it’s a series of still photographs that tell a very chilling story. It was my favorite amongst the animated shorts, and hopefully it’ll be seen by more audiences soon.
This episode of Butterknife co-stars Sean Prince Williams (again), the cinematographer of Frownland. You can go to Spout.com’s Butterknife page for more info on the series, to watch future episodes, to talk about the show, and to sign up for email updates.
This episode of Butterknife co-stars Michael Tully, director ofSilver Jew and Cocaine Angel, and Sean Prince Williams, the cinematographer of Frownland. You can go to Spout.com’s Butterknife page for more info on the series, to watch future episodes, to talk about the show, and to sign up for email updates.
It’s finally here: we happily present the first episode of Joe Swanberg’s latest web series, Butterknife, embedded above.
Butterknife stars Ronald Bronstein (Frownland director/star and Joe’s Sundance Video partner) as a private detective whose frustration on the job is counterbalanced by his happy home life with his wife (played by Ronnie’s real-life wife, Mary Bronstein). We’ve done tons of coverage of Butterknife over the past few months here on SpoutBlog, all of which you can check out here. You can also go to Spout.com’s Butterknife page for more info, to watch future episodes, to talk about the show, and to sign up for email updates.
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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