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I feel like solid short films, especially mini-docs, have a poor signal to noise ratio online. What are some of the best documentaries you've found that are under ten minutes long? Please vote up any you agree with so we can develop a good sorted list and post one film per answer to keep things easy. |
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"Like a Bird on a Wire" - 3:18 Not technically a mini-doc, a segment from the helicopter documentary "Straight Up!", showing power line maintenance being performed on live wires by a man outside a helicopter, using a type of Faraday cage. I've never seen the whole film but this stands alone. |
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"Parkour Documentary" - 4:01 A film about a space and the art of motion. A very well assembled piece on a simple subject. |
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Unfortunately not available in english, but the german words do not say anything that wouldn't be obvious by the image already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYvQNB5FXY (3:16 min long) It's about the man and the job on a hand-operated railroad-crossing on a road leading to one house, two families, three cars and four horses. |
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Anything by Les Blank http://lesblank.com/main.html His films on video are a little harder to find. You might have luck at the library or local specialty video stores if you have any where you live. Run times vary from 5 min. to 2 hrs. Utopia 3 by Sam Green and Carrie Lozano was one of the best mini-docs I saw last year at the Ann Arbor Film Festival http://www.pbs.org/pov/utopia/ Looks like POV has a collection of shorts that might interest you http://www.pbs.org/pov/shorts/ |
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I don't know if these count, but I really like the Etsy "There's no Place Like Here" shorts, like this one: https://www.miroguide.com/items/2510111. |
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