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Online Video Originals

The best in independent online videos, hand-picked by our editorial staff. Whether you're looking for cutting-edge music videos, clever animation, the latest vlogs, or good old fashioned funny videos, check out our selection.

Observation of the Cat State

Created by eatdrink

Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson’s sci-fi novel "Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy," itself inspired by a philosophical theory about the incompleteness of quantum mechanics (i.e. a cat doesn’t follow the same behavior as subatomic particles), this mind-expanding less-than-a-minute experimental short examines a myriad of multi-dimensional states.

Created during down time by a bunch of staffers at eatdrink, a Chicago-based visual effects, animation and web-design house with clients ranging from 7Up to Sketchers to Delta Airlines, "Observations of the Cat State" took about three weeks to produce, and according to a short interview at Motionographer.com with the brain behind the project John Dretzka, evolved from a large collage of advertisements, educational graphs and ornamental clip art. As for doing more experimental work, eatdrink executive producer Chad Hutson says they're committed to pushing the envelope with other independent projects. "It’s what keeps us sane among all the commercial work we do," he says.


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The Foxhole Manifesto

Created by Nick Fox-Gieg

Amsterdam-based animator Nick Fox-Gieg is currently enjoying YouTube fame with his darkly comic 1-year-old music video "I Wanna Be Famous." But in his latest film, "The Foxhole Manifesto" – a similarly sharp-witted animated piece, about God and its many uses and exploitations adapted from the work of slam-poet Jeffrey McDaniel – Fox-Gieg proves he's no one-hit wonder. In fact, the California Institute of the Arts grad has had short films shown at the Rotterdam and Ottawa film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and on television in Canada, Israel and the Netherlands. For more info, check out http://www.fox-gieg.com/
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A Fair(y) Use Tale

Created by Eric Faden

Enjoy the irony as these academics use some extremely copyrighted clips to explain the boundaries of fair use.
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Kite

Created by Emily Keslar

Found Footage Festival: The Trailer

Created by Found Footage Festival

These snippets of found footage are a tempting taste of the spectrum of weird.


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Shades

Created by Benzo

When you watch this video, you won't believe your eyes -- perhaps because your vision has just been obscured by these flying sunglasses.
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McMetro

Created by Robert Bell

Still Life

Still Life

Created by Josh Flowers

Breathing life into gravestones at a local cemetery, this touching documentary by Josh Flowers seeks to remember those who have left us.

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The History of America, Trailer 2

Created by MK12

This second of two trailers offers a few quick looks at some of the animation and cowboy action we can expect from MK12's "psychedelic western space opera."

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Una Favola

Created by Nicole McDonald

Shot entirely on-stage at Massachusetts College of Art, this elegant drama is amorous fable about a girl and her pony.
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