This short is based on an old joke, a perennial in compilations of Jewish humor. Although the details differ between versions, the scene remains the same: a priest challenges a rabbi to a debate on the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other's language, and...well, I won't spoil the punch line.
I'd seen pictures of it before, but an especially dramatic photograph caught my eye on a magazine cover in the grocery store. It almost looked like another vegetable: a brilliant marigold-orange "fuel-air" bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon on the market.
"Is the nail attracted to the magnet?" "Yes!"
This oddly martial drill on the properties of the magnet comes to us from an old, damaged album of '50s educational songs. I just couldn't help imagining what the recording session must have looked like, and out came this little cartoon.
Have you ever looked at a sentence until it stopped making sense? For this short, I took a bit from a little-known Lewis Carroll poem, and repeated it until it lost any kind of meaning.
The letters used in this short fell off a movie theater marquee one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1998. They'd originally been part of some grand, meaningful words, but now they were stranded and helpless. So I gave them a new home.
I began to take a video camera out at night and peek into hundreds of other people's windows, just for a few seconds at a time. I wasn't sure quite why I was doing this...
What if you're offered only two options, and neither of them are any good? The poor creature in this short can't hope to understand that it's trapped inside a completely arbitrary system.
The painter in this short may think she's only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it's all going to lead....
Here's a kinda-creepy collage of pictures and sounds assembled automatically by a Lingo script, all at least tangentially related to my childhood in Huntington, West Virginia. I'm really not sure quite what to make of it.
This short is about an argument over dinner, an argument that goes around in circles. What's unusual is that the dinner goes around in circles too; what's eaten by one combatant comes out of the mouth of the other, so neither the eating nor the fighting ever has to end.
If you search for a needle in a haystack for too long, you start to get bored, then tired, then angry. If you get angry enough, you might even throw the whole haystack away, but then you've lost the needle forever...
![Bird\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/PSkmi71dVro/2.jpg "Bird\")
