An Eye for Annai is a quite incredible animated short film put together by Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues. Great story and great animation. The music ain't so bad either.

Previously on BlogCadre:
Snow-bo - Link
Kiwi! - Link
Our Wonderful Nature - Link

Snow-bo is a short animated film about a lonely boy who finds friendship when he discovers something frozen in a pond. Great animation with an unexpected ending...

Snow-bo was created by Jenn Kluska and Vera Brosgol

Other animated shorts previously on BlogCadre:
Our Wonderful Nature - Link
Kiwi! - Link

"Signs" is a sweet short film about communication and finding love when you least expect it. Call me a romantic, but this film will surely warm your hearts. [via MeFi]

Directed by Patrick Hughes
Written by Patrick Hughes, Karl Fleet & Nick Worthington
An @RadicalMedia and Publicis Mojo Production

Lost scenes from the legendary silent film "Metropolis" were discovered in Buenos Aires.

ZEITmagazin has now reconstructed the story of how the film nevertheless managed to survive. Adolfo Z. Wilson, a man from Buenos Aires and head of the Terra film distribution company, arranged for a copy of the long version of “Metropolis” to be sent to Argentina in 1928 to show it in cinemas there. Shortly afterwards a film critic called Manuel Peña Rodríguez came into possession of the reels and added them to his private collection. In the 1960s Peña Rodríguez sold the film reels to Argentina’s National Art Fund – clearly nobody had yet realised the value of the reels. A copy of these reels passed into the collection of the Museo del Cine (Cinema Museum) in Buenos Aires in 1992, the curatorship of which was taken over by Paula Félix-Didier in January this year. Her ex-husband, director of the film department of the Museum of Latin American Art, first entertained the decisive suspicion: He had heard from the manager of a cinema club, who years before had been surprised by how long a screening of this film had taken. Together, Paula Félix-Didier and her ex-husband took a look at the film in her archive – and discovered the missing scenes.

Link

Related:
Official "Metropolis" website

Here is an interesting and mind-screwing film called "The Cube" directed and produced by Jim Henson prior to his focus on the Muppets.  The film stars Robert Schaal as "The man in the cube". 

From the Google video description:
This philosophical teleplay covers many themes such as, the nature of reality, individual versus scientific perception, self-reference, man's relation to others and society, insanity, social projections, and race relations. It originally aired on NBC's weekly anthology television show NBC Experiment in Television February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by Jim Henson, and was one of several experiments with the live-action film medium which he conducted in the 1960s, before focusing entirely on the Muppets and other puppet works. The screenplay was co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).

[via meshly]

PSST!  Pass it on puts out amazing original short films...

The mission of PSST is to produce original short films through the collaboration of different teams of designers, directors, and animators. Each film is comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. This process is the whole idea behind PSST! – a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making.

In July 2006 PSST released six films and this year, March 2007, they released nine new films.  All films are available for download on their website. 

Here is their short film Loquacious Eyesicle Wild-Bites to get your senses going.

[via meshly]

SPIN is an award-winning short film put out by Double Edge Films in which a mysterious DJ is tossed onto a busy city block to mend a series of tragic events that have occurred.

Previously:
Can We Kiss?, A short film by Pierre-Olivier Mornas

"On S'embrasse?" (Can We Kiss) is a short film by French director Pierre-Olivier Mornas which has won numerous awards at various film festivals.  It's a beautiful short about the loss of love and the end of something that once was.  [via]

No Greater Love is a short film directed by an old friend whom Jason and I used to work with while in school. 

James Choiniere and family uprooted themselves from Minnesota to California to live their dreams of directing films, acting and starting their own production company.  They started Excellent Journey Pictures.

Their short film, No Greater Love, was submitted to the On The Lot reality TV show premiering May 16, 2007.  Put together by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett, the show is meant to showcase 16 aspiring filmmakers and give one lucky filmmaker a $1 million DreamWorks development deal.  The 16 filmmakers chosen to be on the show depend on the votes, comments and popularity of the filmmakers' films on the officlal On The Lot website. 

Check out the film, vote and leave your comments! 

Links to the film:
No Greater Love on On The Lot (HiRes 5-minute version)
No Greater Love on YouTube (full version)

Take a closer look at the infographics and commercials from 2027 as seen in the movie Children of Men.  The entire suite of media content was created by Foreign Office.

[via The Presurfer]