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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.
Forgetfulness
Created by Julian Grey
An elegantly narrated poem, Forgetfulness is a reminder of all the hopeless moments when memory fails conjure up the disposable details of our factual lives.
Quimi Portet - La Terra es plana
Created by Aleix Pitarch
Life looks pretty different from a military jet, especially in Aleix Pitarch's hypnotic music video for Catalan cult rocker Quimi Portet
12twelve - Mr Gesus
Created by Aleix Pitarch
This conceptual piece -- which seemingly seeks to shake the viewer's foundation of belief and spirituality -- is a visual discussion of life's never-ending road to somewhere. Provocative stuff.
A Year of My Life: 10,000 photos from my point of view
Created by TheaterOfMemory-Nick Barberio
A nice variation on the staid "A Picture of Myself Every Day For a Year" genre, this snappy little edit offers a rich, textured look at the life of a shutterbug.
Umlaut Ampersand
Created by JT Bruce
While this stop-motion frenzy had us hooked at the title, its eponymous character is just one of the many visually dazzling displays in Umlaut Ampersand. Could PES possibly have a protege waiting in the wings?
Die Alpen Lumen
Created by alex itin and Jason Ho
An art film through and through, this collaborative effort was executed entirely through video-sharing site Vimeo. See creators' comments below for more info.
Peach Plum Pear
Created by Echo Panda
A spec video for one of our favorite Joanna Newsom songs. "We had a bunch of old 8mm film reels and somehow it really fit the song nicely," says one of the resourceful filmmakers of Echo Panda, who projected the films onto their fridge and then filmed that with a DV camera. Such resourcefulness!
Frequency
Created by Gordon Waltho
We're not sure where Waltho (already a Top Ten alum with his trippy Coney Island) is taking us in this video for Kynosis, but we're definitely with him for the ride through the satellite-and-telephone-wire-dotted landscape.
State of Emergency
Created by David Loitz
David Loitz creates a visual nightmare of an attack on US soil. State of Emergency is the modern complement to the Orson Well's radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.
read more >>Fallen
Created by Ryan Jeffrey
Fallen uses the iconic imagery found in mythology and religion to create a modern myth. Presenting itself as a tale of creation, the film illustrates the simultaneous appreciation and paranoia of the technological age. The interest in forms both organic and fabricated is mirrored by a fusion of the contemporary with the ancient.
