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From attention-grabbing promos to thoughtful documentaries, a new crop of directors is creating innovative and daring pictures that are cheap to make, easy to share, and finding an audience as never before. Here, we speak to those responsible for some of the best

Are we in the middle of a short‑film revolution? Not long ago, if you wanted to catch short work by exciting new film-makers, you had to travel to a festival, hunt down a compilation on DVD, catch a charitable showing on TV or, if you were uncommonly lucky, before the main feature at the cinema. Now all you have to do, assuming you have internet access and a passing familiarity with video-hosting websites, is switch on your computer.

The curious thing about short films is that, regardless of audience and financial incentive, people have continued to make them with great enthusiasm. This is in part because...

Amazon is showing a listing, that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release The Unusuals – The Complete Series for DVD next month on April 6th, 2010. This release will be an Amazon.com Exclusive. The series starred, Academy Award Nominee Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia), Harold Perrineau (Lost), and Terry Kinney (Oz). Below is the episode listing for The Unusuals – The Complete Series:

The Unusuals – The Complete Series – Episodes (DVD):

Pilot

Boorland Day

One Man Band

Crime Slut

42

The Circle Line

The Tape Delay

The Dentist

The Apology Line

The E.I.D.

The Unusuals - The Complete Series DVD...

Disclaimer: please forgive my deplorable, albeit thoroughly intended, misquotation from The Royal Teens seminal 1958 release, 'Short Shorts'. A while back I promised you another special selection from the mystical and capricious world of short films. I'm quite sure you have all been logging in every evening, with twitching fingers, in the hope that I have finally provided another volume of filmic vignettes and music videos; and crashing backwards with a heavy sigh when you realise that no such post has been created. Well sigh no more my enthusiastic readers... for volume II has arrived: Music Videos: Florence + The Machine: The Ganzfeld Procedure Dir: Keith McCarthy / UK / 2009 BBC Electric Proms, in partnership with 6Music, commissioned this New Music Short. Filmmakers were asked to submit creative ideas for short films inspired by Florence + The Machine's 'Dog Days Are Over'. Selected from over 225 entries, Keith worked with producers at Colonel Blimp to create this sporadic,...