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Posted by Dano (aka dano) Feb 26 '10, 23:59

I'm trying to name a Shorts Program for the festival.

I had several short films that I really liked, but I thought would be difficult to program because there explicit nature made it a challenge to group them with other films. For instance if you have an animation program, it's not really a good idea to follow up a Wallace and Gromit short with a prison rape movie. I wound up having enough of these films (live action and animation) to make a 90 minute shorts program out of them.

I'm currently referring to it as the "We Dare You to Watch These Shorts Program" but I am trying to come up with a better name. It needs to be descriptive enough that an audience will not be surprised at the content of the films. (I don't want little old ladies buying tickets because they want to see some foreign films.) But I also want to use it as a marketing tool by telling them that they may be too intense for them.

Some examples of things that happen in these films:

brother on brother incest
teeth being yanked out during torture
a child being beaten
repeated animated prison rape, sometimes with defecation
death to dog by dropping it into a fire
castration

Responses:

how about naming the festival "Things Best Left Unsaid" ? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 27, 07:52
"Holy Shorts!!!" - weak I know but I'm tired today. I think Andies conveys the "content warning" best so far -- nm - JenBro Feb 27, 07:40
"Shorts That Challenge You" or "Bet These Shorts Are Tougher Than You" -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 27, 06:52
Soil Your Shorts -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 06:24
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Film Festival -- nm - Max Feb 27, 06:21
"Definitely Not Your Parents Shorts" -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 06:03
Extremely Short Extreme Shorts -- nm - TFox Feb 27, 04:36
Not For The Faint Of Heart Shorts or Dramatically Disturbing Shorts -- nm - flavorize Feb 27, 03:20 1
- Or, Powerfully Provocative and Unequivocally Unnerving Shorts -- nm - flavorize Feb 27, 03:23
Short Disturbance: Minutes of Film to Scar a Lifetime -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 27, 00:41
I'll probably schedule them late at night too. I guess the old Midnight Shorts standby would convey the message too. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 00:28 1
- "Shorts AFFter Dark" -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:29
Choose the one with the hotter dude. -- nm - psilotum Feb 27, 00:20 1
- That was a completely different one. - Dano Feb 27, 00:27
"Films Subversive has no interest in watching" -- nm - Subversive Feb 27, 00:18
these shorts are full of crap, arty crap but still -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 00:16 2
- i think dano's going for something a little more condescending -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:18 1
  - ok, how about "Lucas' parents spent 100,000 on USC film school and got THX-1138, take a look at what these parents got" -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 00:54
something with "Faint of Heart" - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:15 2
- Damn, I just saw this post. Beat me too it by, just hours ;) -- nm - flavorize Feb 27, 03:21
- "Can This Pickle Get More Fans Than These Messed Up Shorts?" -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:26
"Literally a Kick in the Shorts-Shorts." "Not On Your Short List." "What. The. Shorts." -- nm - JaxSean Feb 27, 00:09
"shorts b. will never watch." - b! Feb 27, 00:08
how about "holy fucking shit this shit is fucked in the shit, what the fuck?", in a Benicio del Toro voice? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 00:00

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