Product Details

• Directors: Hugo Maza, Daniel Askill, Hans Petter Moland, Adam Guzinski, Jane Malaquias
• Format: Color, Black & White, NTSC
• Language: Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: New Yorker Video
• DVD Release Date: April 8, 2008
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0013UQUVO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,881 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The World According to Shorts" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Chicago Tribune
By Michael Wilmington
November 17, 2006

The World According to Shorts (*)(*)(*) (Various countries; various directors, 2006). A diverse and stimulating program of six short films from around the world, all done with flair, intelligence and a daring you don't often see in features. Compiled by Jonathan Howell, the show includes little gems from Chile (Hugo Maza's comedy of sex and class, La Perra), Australia (Daniel Askill's visual-symbolic poem of birth and destruction, We Have Decided Not to Die), Norway (Hans Petter Moland's ironic hymn to aging radicalism, United We Stand) and Brazil (Jane Malaquias' lyrical look at age and rural life, The Old Woman's Step). The program's two brilliant high spots come from Poland and Germany. Adam Guzinski's Antichrist is a stunning parable of good and evil among a group of boys; the story suggests Lord of the Flies. Andreas Hykade's Ring of Fire is a terrific surreal animated German mini-Western done with a perverse imagery that suggests Zap Comix crossed with Sergio Leone's spaghetti epics. (In Spanish, English, Norwegian, Polish and Portuguese, with English subtitles.) --The Chicago Tribune

Product Description

Culled from the best award-winning short films to screen internationally in recent years, The World According to Shorts combines six films that span genre and mood but share world-class quality. Brought to North American for the first time by curator Jonathan Howell, this film festival in miniature allows US audiences to get a taste of the work of innovative, up-and-coming directors from across the globe.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique selection!, October 25, 2008

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Isabel Reeves "unquantized" (Berlin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World According to Shorts (DVD)

The first short "La Perra" is a funny, quirky film
with an absurdist tendency, great cast, and
recommended for all who are looking for less obvious
methods to spice up their love life.

The black & white animation "Ring of Fire" about two
wild west buddies in a pretty lively lanscape (e.g.
female body parts performing french can-can) gives
wavy, flowing hair a whole new meaning! Besides music
and dance, liquor, camp fire and shoot-outs, there's
an impressive lady in black - and look for her
mechanical piano player!Great soundtrack & -design.

The norwegian film (United We Stand) shows us what
"all for one" entails. Brilliant how beautiful
landscape shots, songs of solidarity, very black
humor, and a touching illustration of aforementioned
proverb all work together to create a memorable (only
seemingly simple) film.

The australian film "We Have Decided Not to Die" shows
us three episodes or 'rituals'. Absolutely stunning in
both content and style, mysterious, very beautifully
shot and edited (intriguing use of effects), stylized
(great colors, use of symmetry, perfect
cinematography.) All three rituals involve artful
convulsions, and take place in environments devoid of
other humans. "Birth" takes place, very aesthetically,
in a pool, underwater. In "Between" we are shown
something like 'man against machine'. And in "Rebirth"
we follow a young man into an office tower, up the
elevator, and choosing a daredevil way out again.
Truly fascinating film.

The other shorts share the ability to touch, and stir
associations one can't necessarily pin down, which is
part of the appeal. Great experience.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful world perspectives, February 10, 2010

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Sarah L. Hicks "garlic scape" (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World According to Shorts (DVD)

A collection of comical, bizarre, and heart wrenching shorts. The skill of the artists involved is phenomenal. You will think about the content of these emotional clips long after you've watched them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Provocative, dark & disturbingly funny........., January 13, 2009

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Luna Scout - See all my reviews

This review is from: The World According to Shorts (DVD)

Overall, I really liked this selection of shorts and found it to be an engaging, provocative mix - and there were cowboys, randy cowboys! La Perra was hilarious and absurd; Antichrist a grueling, dark picture of war; Old Woman's Step (along w/ LP one of my favorites)I found to be quite touching in it's richness, beauty, sadness and simplicity. I didn't particularly get(or really dig)We Decided Not to Die, but other viewing friends/critics were really into it.