The winners of DOTMOV 2012 have been selected, and SHIFT will be hosting screenings of the 13 best shorts at locations around the world.

From their press release:

This year’s total submission of works is 194, coming from 16 different countries. The 13 works have been selected by the guest judges. The Screening of these videos on the websites and venues around the world is from November, 2012.

* The screening schedule of each venues will be released on the website from November 2012.

http://www.shift.jp.org/mov/

They have also released the first three shorts for your online consumption pleasure below (starting with the one pictured at …

SHIFT is once again accepting submissions for their world wide, digital short film festival. We’ve featured them for several years in a row now, and the results are always impressive!

From their blog:

Online magazine SHIFT presents DOTMOV Festival 2012, a digital film festival aiming to discover talented creators and provide them with an opportunity to show their works. Screening was took place in 20 places, Hong Kong, London, Stockholm, New York, India, Brazil etc besides Japan last year. Works submitted from all over the world will be screened throughout the world venues from November 2012. Last year’s total

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Steve McQueen, a director with as rare a talent for visual lyricism as any working today, strikes new ore with his film Shame. His previous film, Hunger, assembled beautiful images within trademark long takes, and thus, achieved an excellent abstract formalism. As McQueen’s strength has always been optical delight, Shame employs a similar technique, yet his latest work marks a leap forward in terms of emotional impact.

This is the plot: Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is coping with unnamed past trauma through sex and shunning his family. Nevertheless, his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) arrives in his apartment requesting to …

Last week, when I was on page 200 of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and was so entranced I was able to completely ignore the extremely large and somewhat smelly man sitting beside me on the BART, a woman leaned across the aisle with wide eyes and said, “How did you manage to get that out of the library?” I grinned and informed her that I had put a hold on David Mitchell’s newest novel two months before it was released, and therefore managed to ensure that as soon as the library got it, I did. I spent …

London, following in the footsteps of several North American cities (and some in the Netherlands), is being overrun by ceramic animals. Indian fiberglass elephants, to be precise. The white, richly decorated creatures have been “adopted” by a number of celebrities (from the logical artistic bunch including Kriti Arora and designers Isaac Mizrahi and Lulu Guinness, to the slightly more eccentric such as IPL leader, scandal-plagued Lalit Modi). The goal of this Elephant Parade campaign is to raise awareness and money of the plight of the Asian elephants (apparently they’re in danger of extinction). The elephants will be displayed until July, …