These films, special projects, and animations all exemplify new types of story telling; some are interactive; a some are in 3D or 360 degrees. Some are Flash, some are animation. Some just can't be described.  Check them out and experience something just a little bit different and new.

You got to see Doll Face (4:12) INCREDIBLE!!!

A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

Time to get mellow.  Nicely done and just the thing to end your day with... or to escape with during lunch.

Planoquarium - A nicely choreographed compilation of sea creatures from Chicago's Shedd Aquarium synchronized to an original 2-minute medley performed by pianist Nancy Keppel, who plays most weekends at the Renaissance Hotel at State & Wacker in Chicago.  Produced by John LeGear at timcomm.com

You may have heard of speed racing and speed dating - now there is Bruce Lee Speed Painting.  This guy creates a wall sized mural of Bruce Lee using only his hands and karate chop motions. Instant art with a martial arts flourish. But is it art?

Are you ready to ponder what Earth's message to our outer space neighbors may be? Check out this extremely well made and thought provoking short animated video from Fox SearchLab - Terra

An innocent Martian girl is excited about the new “God” in the sky

This is quite interesting. What happens when you do a music mash-up between some of the world's most classic rock and roll tunes and a classic film like The Wizard of Oz? Check it out here  Video Mashup: Dark Side of Oz

This is a very interesting and provocative film submitted by the guys at DeadKidzFilms. Field Theory is very well shot, edited and created but I am not sure what it is all about but it will make you think. It combines urban angst, young man philosophy with a bit of violence and New York attitude. It's a bit long but it deserves to be checked out.

Let's Get Medical is an extremely weird and moody short 3 minute film by Jon Tojek. Shot on 35 film, it is hosted on one of our favorite sites, UndergroundFilm.com. This film is extremely dreamy, strange and odd. We can't figure it out but it sure made our day. Let's go do some surgery.

"White Bits" is a very cute, well produced short that demonstrates that almost anybody has their price. What would you do for money?

"Virus" by Simon Hynd is really scary and spooky - especially if you are into computers, Internet videos and murder. Great concept - wonderful production - this is the kind of virus even Norton and McAfee can't deal with.

What's it like to travel with a rock and roll band on tour? Check out 2003 - a multimedia designer's real world documentary of his travels while hanging out in the rock world. If you got the bandwidth, watch the high resolution versions. It's really pretty.

How long is your attention span? Do you believe in the shorter the better? If so, you'll love this short short. Just ten seconds in length, this Moonwalk video was shot on one of the most expensive sets in history.  Also, check out Wait - 15 seconds in length. And if you can bear it, you got to see NightWalk. Great concept, wonderful black & white cinematography. All at the Last Independent web site.

A few years ago Steve Hawman lost his leg in an industrial combustion accident, leaving him broke & unemployed. Having no insurance, he fabricated his own artificial leg using PVC pipe and a lemonade pitcher.  ( We don't make this stuff up) A local prosthetics clinic got him back on his feet so to speak and Steve started working building gates and metal sculptures for wealthy beach residents.  Now the artist is building a car from scratch inspired by a 1920's Locomobile cabriolet gunboat roadster which will be awarded as a gift to the owner of the  prosthetics clinic who helped him. Built on a 1988 Lincoln Town car frame that has been extended and widened this is one serious  hotrod. Most would never undertake a project of this scale much less commit to accomplishing it in 100 days. See http://www.MotorMoods.com for more details. IVM will be bringing you exclusive video of the completed rolling sculpture, but in the meantime check this out.

Windows Media -  Quicktime

Let's Get Medical is an extremely weird and moody short 3 minute film by Jon Tojek. Shot on 35 film, it is hosted on one of our favorite sites, UndergroundFilm.com. This film is extremely dreamy, strange and odd. We can't figure it out but it sure made our day. Let's go do some surgery.

You want to be weirded out? Cat With Hands, hosted at the Bokser Films site, is extremely well made and .... how to describe it .. very unnerving. Spooky and unforgetable. Simple in concept, it combines great cinematography with an excellent story and acting. Also, if you are a filmmaker, you got to check out PA: The Walkie Nazi Story" A satirical documentary, "PA", is a look into the life of a PA (Production Assistant), whose main role on the set is to be responsible for all the walkie talkies...

Art meets abstraction meets sex meets violence. Cool graphics, strange music and bizarre visuals all combine to create a unique 10 minute experience in Sex Objects X, L and V. New at Atom Films

  Have you had a chance to check out Rob Dougan - his music and his videos? Two of the music videos on this site are incredible - "Furious Angels" and "Clubbed to Death." You might want to also try this custom player version. 
The Skin was designed by New York-based web "un-designer" Jason Kottke, whose work is clearly more creative and technically challenging than most stuff floating around these days. The Quicktime skin is much smaller than a standard digital video file, yet it contains much more content. Viewers are able to use it to play five different videos that showcase Rob Dougan tracks. Visitors can also  link to Dougan's web site and buy the music. To appreciate the level of expertise required. Here is how this is done.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar- Maybe Freud said this - check out this interesting online art installation and performance piece all about cigars, their significance and their history. Make sure you read the online book as well.

You got to see this - the "Send Me an Angel" music video from Deadstar Assembly. Created at South Florida Studios and directed by Rip Odebralski, the animation is incredible - the live action video blended with the animation is mind-boggling. When you are done with the video, check out the site 
and the other videos. This is an amazing and very professionally designed and developed web site and demonstrates wonderful creativity. Buy their DVD - these guys ought to be signed big.

Would you buy a house from this dog? Follow Abby as she gives you a tour of her house and the pool and the backyard. It's all for sale - everything except for her bone and her doghouse. Check it out - a 4Video homes special.

Abstraction is a path to our inner selves....anyhow,  check out and take a trip with "CREATION` Hosted by WAM TV, you can download it from the WAMTV archive section. By Paul Gillard with music by Kenzo. This is an excellent piece combining spacey electronic music with fractal digital art which weaves its way through an imaginary landscape.  WAMTV is a streaming video broadcaster, offering a diverse and eclectic selection of music videos, animations and other creative streaming projects.

Okay - this site does not have any video but it is hilarious! Welcome to www.VillainSupply.com, Your Online Source For Everything EVIL. . If you are a evil doer, mad scientist, warlord, dictator, or despot, then this is the place for you. We love the Henchperson section.

Do you like science fiction, battles and weird alien beings?  Check out "New World" According to producer Peter John Ross. 
it's all about a time on Earth after aliens have invaded, a group of young upstarts begin to fight back against the insect-like Invaders. Click here to see the trailer or watch the entire 10 online chapters. It's sort of  like the old science fiction serials of the 1930's, but with home made 
special video FX of the 2000's. The last two chapters are online  at Brownfish.com, MovieFlix and at Underground Film.
"New World" was shot with a Canon GL1 Mini DV, edited with Adobe Premiere 5.1c, and composited with Adobe After Effects 4.1. 3D Animation by the Triple By-pass Cafe, 3D models by Dual P. Davidson, wireframe models and animation done in Caligari True 
Space 4.3, texture maps were done in Photoshop and added to models in 3D Studio Max. 3D Matte Paintings done by Don Drennan in Lightwave 7.0

Special - The Making of "New World"

These may be the best looking videos you'll see on the net. The site features very large 30 fps videos in 16 X 9 and 4 X 3 formats. The videos are incredible, nearly full screen in size, and are now available to view for the first time.  To view these movies a fast Internet connection is absolutely required as well as a fairly new computer with lots of video RAM.  Endorphin.com produces high quality QuickTime broadband movies. Their short films are featured regularly at www.apple.com. Endorphin Productions Inc. has been producing videos since 1988 for a variety of clients and their work has been seen on CBS, NBC, PBS, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, and more.  

Is this film art or just weird stuff or voyeurism? Check out the films of Guy Bourdin, hosted at ShowStudio. These films appear on SHOWstudio to mark the major Guy Bourdin retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (17 April-17 August 2003) and its international tour.

Do you need to relax? Check out Dream Streams - Leave your cares behind and relax by a mountain stream! Treat yourself to the pleasure of an auditory and visual massage! Natural sounds of streams, shimmering colors, and soothing sights. A new approach in video. Twenty-two outstanding scenes of mountain streams. Close-ups of colorful and entrancing water patterns. Create your own daily relaxation routine. A video you can watch again and again!

Playing With Time is cool and fun science oriented web site with a Gallery section that features amazing short movies that demonstrate the changing world around us. You can a walk on the sliding scales of time, or go on an in-depth exploration of a place in time and find out what's happening behind the scenes. 

Not all videos have to have a point or a plot. Check out The Moment Factory which offers up a wonderful collection of "environments" - consisting of video and music - it is sort of like a rave your eyes and ears. There are about 70 different video clips to explore - some are small and low resolution - some are quite big and will blow you away. 

Check out the best short films from "The World's Smallest Film Festival" produced by BigDigit, Inc. You can choose from comedies, animations, dramas, experimental, music videos etc. They are all pretty entertaining...According to the promoters, this is the first competitive showcase of digital video content for the new generation of mobile phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. They bring together top film innovators with leaders in wireless, mobile technology, multimedia software developers, content providers, and end users to develop the full potential of creative multimedia content for the mobile world. more

Ready to travel the world? Check out this personal Mac site which features both live videos as well as a very nice assortment extremely cool and well made QTVR images of wonderful spots to visit - most are of Norway and Europe, with a few shots of the Caribbean thrown in as well. The QuickTime Virtual Reality images enable you to pan sideways, up and down, and explore the scene - almost as if you were there.

This is really cool and very different. Is it video, is it a movie? Is Jaqueline L Lying is a French interactive web site in which you have to figure out if the sexy and alluring Jaqueline L is fibbing or telling the truth. It is quite a neat adventure. Don't worry - you can play in English. You got to take this short adventure...

Do like weird and strange? If so, you will really like this five minute long film, Eggman the movie - After being banished from his home planet for coveting his neighbor's rabbit, Eggman is sent to Earth. If you can figure it out, please tell us...

This is really weird - More Inc by Wesley Thomas Meyer | 15:00.   It is not really a movie, it is not really a cartoon -  it is an inter-active Kafka-esque simulation of life within a capitalist culture.   The project is dedicated to employee number 12995 and to his frustrations and angst. Meyer analyzes, with irony, the human being's role in a world dominated by corporations and the New Economy. The user is invited to participate in the daily routine of a faceless employee and to interact with the endless meetings, paper pushing, form filing, homogeneity, subversion, and anxiety that are typical in the corporate work world. Have fun but don't get strange.

Check out "The New Arrival". It was the first narrative shot entirely with Be Here's immersive  iVideo technology. The 360 view allows you to take control of your viewing experience. To get the full effect of "The New Arrival" Click and drag your mouse in the window for viewer control. Your shift key zooms in and your Ctrl key zooms out. It is quite cool and different. Not only is the technology impressive but the script is excellent as well. 

Squarepusher's Come On My Selector may be the weirdest music video ever.  If you like the strange and bizarre, you got to see Chris Cunningham's award-winning Come On My Selector for Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher.  The video is a 7-minute epic, and was filmed in a closed ward and the basement corridors at Northwick Park Hospital in London. This music video is exceptionally well produced, shot and edited.

This is a bit different. Video Cameras that are stuck inside a pill and take a trip through your body. Check out this streaming video news story at RCOM.TV. Pretty interesting. I can't wait until we get one of these videos to show at Internet Video Magazine.  Hint, hint, hint....  Check the "Behind the Scenes" section at RCOM.TV. FYI - there's a bunch of other cool shows at watch. Click on View More Shows.

Internet Film Community is a great site with great experimental movies, short videos, great commercials, wonderful parodies and extremely cool music videos.  Some of our favorites include "Sexy Boy" by Air, a very innovative animated music video, and "Java Noir", a extremely well made and dark look at the world of mystery and coffee and atmosphere. 

Don't you just hate it when someone messes with your car? Don't you wish there was some kind of prevention that really worked? Check out Anti Auto Theft Devices  from MP4.com. By the way, there are tons of cool animations  on this site, created with a wide range of tools and techniques.

This is a blast as well. Carny Tales by Scott Smith | 8:00


In this 360 Degree interactive short, a group of gangsters kidnap a clairvoyant from a carnival to summon a dead mobster and find a double-crosser in their ranks. You get to control controls the point of view throughout the movie by clicking and dragging their mouse in the window, or using 'Shift' and 'Ctrl' keys to zoom in and out. Clues have been hidden throughout the environment so viewers can try to solve the immersive who dunnit. This requires a short download of the Be Here 360 degree viewer.