Type Books Gets Animated
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The owners of Type Books in Toronto spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books to produce this amazing video featuring music by Grayson Matthews.
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Adopt a Typewriter
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From the founders of Ashland Creek Press comes this public service announcement about the writer's most cherished yet endangered object: the typewriter.
Stanley Kubrick's The Great Gatsby
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Students in a high school Advanced English class produced this short film combining the general plot points of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with the filmmaking style of Stanley Kubrick, specifically in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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To Die By Your Side
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Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in this amazing stop-motion film directed by Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn and animated by Sylvain Derosne and Léonard Cohen. Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) has been a featured selection at film festivals around the world, including those in Athens, Paris, Belgium, Montreal, London, South Korea, and Buenos Aires. Watch the complete six-minute film on Vimeo.
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
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This short film, directed by Aleksandar Kostic and narrated by Miki Manojlovic, was inspired by Danilo Kiš's story “A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.” Kiš, a Yugoslavian writer who was influenced by Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges, died in 1989.
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From Arial to Zinco
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In this short film by Alessandro Novelli, each letter of the alphabet is illustrated based on the first letter of a font name.
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Remaindered
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In Lee Goldberg's short film Remaindered, which is based on one of Goldberg's short stories and was shot on a budget of fifteen hundred dollars, a once-famous author desperate to regain his lost glory travels the back-roads of middle America selling remaindered fifth-editions of his first book out of the trunk of his car.
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Read a Book, Live the Words
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This short video promoting independent booksellers puts the words of Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, and other famous novelists in the mouths of ordinary citizens.
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Bookstore Reunion
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An unexpected reunion in a bookstore gets awkward in this short film starring Anthony Ahern, Alison Bell, and Petra Kalive and written and directed by Miklos Janek.
Poetry Will Find You
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In this silent film by Richard Grunn, a common man discovers "the mysterious power of poetry."
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