Product Details

• Actors: Johannes Silberschneider, Elisabeth Ebner-Haid, Bennett S. Graebner, Frazier Bain, Heather Pendergast
• Directors: Daniel Loflin, David Birdsell, Elyse Couvillion, Mark Osborne, Suzie Templeton
• Writers: Karl Moore, Daniel Loflin, David Birdsell, Elyse Couvillion
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Live, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000AKY3P
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #120,613 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Best of RESFEST Shorts, Vol. 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor

Highlights of this collection include Virgil Widrich¹s amazing Copy Shop, winner of numerous awards and an 2002 Oscar Nominee for Best Short; Daniel Loflin¹s dark yet hilarious Delusions in Modern Primitivism; Mark Osborne¹s powerful animation More, winner of the first Audience Choice Award at RESFEST and an Oscar Nominee; and Elyse Couvillion¹s masterful DV short Sweet.

Product Description

The Best of RESFEST Volume 2 is a stellar collection of 12 hand-picked short films from the archives of RESFEST, a global, touring festival dedicated to showcasing innovative film, music, art, design and technology. Designed to support and inspire emerging talent, the festival kicks off annually each fall in the United States, and then journeys worldwide to over a dozen cities across six continents, building a global network of creators and audiences. The festival has supported breaking new talent, hosted visionary filmmakers, and pushed boundaries to rethink the visual language of cinema.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stop-Motion in Motion!, January 15, 2004

By	BlaskoFilms (Coon Rapids, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This disc proves that the Resfest DVDs are NOT strictly a showcase for digital films. Two outstanding stop-motion shorts are included on this volume: "More" and "Dog". Mark Osborne's "More" is, without question, one of the truly great animated films -- a parable about passion and routine, simple pleasures and self-satisfaction. It's been included on other anthologies, but if you've missed it - SEE IT HERE! Suzie Templeton's (nice to see the work of women directors get some visibility, I might add) "Dog" is dark, deep and harrowing. A quiet tension builds between son and father, infecting the scene and giving it an urgency not often seen in a short film.

That's all I can say. The rest of the films are good, as always, but if the disc were to only include the two stop-motion marvels, it would still be well worth the price. Enjoy!

4.0 out of 5 stars Good assortment of short films, August 4, 2009

By	J. Paulsonn (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Resfest Shorts, Vol. 2 (DVD)

The DVD producers have helpfully included commentaries and details about the film and filmmaker, including technical details on the equipment used to make the film.

Here are the films, with Director, running time, and production date:

1) BAD ANIMALS (Birdsell - 4:40 - 2000)
2) BIKE RIDE (Schroeder - 6:35 - 2000)
3) COPY SHOP (Widrich - 12:00 - 2001) Oscar (R) nominee
4) COUNTERFEIT FILM (Simon 0 2:00 - 2001)
5) DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM (Loflin - 17:00 - 2000)
6) DOG (Templeton - 5:00 - 2001)
7) HEADCLEANER (Bavari - 1:23 - 1999)
8) HELICOPTER (Gold - 21:00 - 2000)
9) MORE (Osborne - 6:00 - 1998) Oscar (R) nominee 1999 (Wikipedia has an entry on MORE)
10) SWEET (Couvillion - 4:37 - 2000)
11) TELLING LIES (Ellis - 4:20 - 2000)
12) ZEN AND THE ART OF LANDSCAPING (Kartch - 17:00 - 2000)

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Never sent me the disc, May 12, 2007

By	Regent T. St Claire "Sacrosanction" (Culver City, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I ordered this thing several times and each time, after a week or so, I got an email saying that it was out of stock. That scenario continued for years. I finally found the filmmaker who made "More" from this collection, and bought THAT short directly from him. It was great. Too bad that Amazon was never able to get it together with this item.