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Friday, Jul. 13, 2001
"Dance With Death"
On black-and-white film and through a swirling shroud of smoke the Grim Reaper appears. Anticipation builds as a deep male voiceover declares, "For a quarter of a century, the Atlanta Film & Video Festival has brought you the best in independent films." A group of men assembles in the gloom...
Friday, Jul. 13, 2001
New Yorkers Offer Some "Friendly Advice"
If the New York Mets had the take-the-bull-by-the-horns initiative of director Stephen Kessler, they might be having a better season. Well, at least the defending National League champs have some good commercials. An established spotmaker who maintains bicoastal production house Promiseland,...
Friday, Jul. 6, 2001
"Chicken Pox" Reveals A Worse Epidemic
The camera opens on a young boy's face. The hand—all we can see of a second person—is putting makeup over the lad's chicken pox marks to conceal them. "Am I gonna get in trouble?" asks the boy. "No, you're not gonna get in trouble," a girl's voice responds. "Are you sure?" persists the boy. The...
Friday, Jul. 6, 2001
"Beach"
We open on a dog being taken for a walk in the park by his master. The canine sniffs at a discarded plastic water bottle nestled in the grass. We hear a voice. But whose? The dog's? No, it's the bottle's. "Well, that was pretty uneventful," gripes the empty water container: "Sat around in a...
Friday, Jun. 29, 2001
Everyone's A Critic In Rhode Island
If you can't find a favorable movie review, invent one—that's seems to be what Sony Pictures did by creating a fictitious Connecticut film critic to heap praise on key theatrical releases. However, if Sony had been legitimately in the market for a truly savvy critic—and for an honest assessment of...
Friday, Jun. 29, 2001
"Roof Sex"
Two chairs are anything but couch potatoes in this stop-motion animation spec spot, which opens on a picturesque shot of a city skyline, the rooftop of an apartment building in the foreground. There's an aggressive banging against the door leading to the roof, accompanied by vocalizations seemingly...
Friday, Jun. 22, 2001
Presenting Wilderness In Concrete Terms
That ought to hold if the weather turns," declares an outdoorsy-looking man in close-up. He's been pitching a tent and is hammering a last spike into the ground. "Here, you try," he encourages his young son, handing him the hammer. "OK," responds the lad, quietly confident. "Watch your fingers,"...
Friday, Jun. 22, 2001
"World War I Soccer"
This spec spot puts us in the trenches—literal trenches—of World War I. We open in black-and-white, on a desolate battlefield. The camera pulls back to reveal that we're looking through a periscope—the POV of a soldier dutifully keeping watch from the deep trench. Beside him huddle his comrades,...
Friday, Jun. 15, 2001
Hey, What's The Worst That Can Happen?
Soda, soda, soda, soda," murmurs a young man as he ambles down a grocery store aisle, peering through the glass doors of one enormous refrigerator unit after another. But the parade of blah-brand carbonated beverages ends when he arrives at a fridge full of Dr Pepper. "Dr Pepper. What's the worst...
Friday, Jun. 15, 2001
"Horror Film"
Four bottles of beer—and then there were three. This spoof of slasher horror movies leaves a broken-bottle casualty, but manages to humorously promote Miller Lite's sponsorship of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin. The campy, black-and-white :30 taps into the movie-watcher...

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