I’ll get around to seeing Spider-Man 3 on the Imax screen eventually, but in the meantime I choose to focus on the little things.
This weekend the Coachella Valley is flooded with shorts, and not of the Bermuda variety. Short films are often the efforts of new filmmakers, short on cash but long on ideas. With an opportunity to show their stuff in less than 40 minutes, they allow their limitations to encourage creativity.
On Friday, The Gardens on El Paseo will be hosting 6 mini-flicks from last year’s Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. Complete with intros by Palm Springs International Film Society’s (whom the $10 proceeds benefit) exec. director, this is a tasty teaser for the August fest. And besides, watching films in a picnic atmosphere with glasses of wine couldn’t be a nicer way to spend a desert night.
Saturday, I plan on gettin’ comfy at the Cinémas Palme d'Or to watch all of the 2006 Oscar nominated shorts, and then some. At the time of the awards I tried to download them, but alas, but my computer couldn’t handle it. All five live action, five animated and five non-nominated shorts brings my two-day total to 21 films.
And that, to me, is good math.