Short Takes
COMMERCIAL "INTERRUPTION"A husband and wife are in a hotel room--he's unpacking a suitcase that's on the bed, she's in the bathroom unpacking some cosmetics and other sundry items. He can barely get out a sentence, asking her if she packed his flip-flops, when the sound...
SUPERFAD, TBWA\CHIAT\DAY TEAM ON WILD RIDE"Enter," a :60 launching Pioneer Electronics' Kuro television, takes viewers on a journey from the ocular nerve through to the wild imaginings of the mind's eye. Teaming to make this journey a reality were...
EPOCH FILMS' LENSKI PUTS IN 10 CENTS WORTHFor a campaign that spoofs 1-800 chat line commercials in order to promote Boost Mobile's new 10 cents per minute, mobile-to-mobile calling, Berlin Cameron United, New York, turned to director...
FIGHTING CANCER
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has launched a campaign that is a departure from the organization's norm. Instead of talking about various forms of the disease, the progress being made by scientists, the importance of raising funds for more...
SELECTED SHORTS FROM JOHN ST.Toronto ad agency john st has wrapped a three-spot campaign for Stanfield's underwear, including "Meat Locker," featuring a tour of a meat plant in which our guide directs us to an industrial deep freezer that ...
BIG LAWN EXPECTING AIRTIMEExpecting--a short film directed by Chuck Bennett who's best known for his spotmaking endeavors at Big Lawn Films, Santa Monica--is airing this month on the Independent Film Channel, as part of...
WHEN PIGS FLY...When it comes to sex, men are pigs--literally, in this Trojan condoms spot titled "Evolve" directed by Phil Joanou of bicoastal/international MJZ for The Kaplan Thaler Group, New...
FINDING "HAPPINESS" IN DOCUMENTARY FORM
Coca-Cola's lauded "Happiness Factory" spot--an animation tour de force directed by Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick of Psyop, New York, for Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam--has garnered numerous...
CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWNA mundane slice of office life is anything but with sounds of a man in ecstasy being heard through the corridors. A curious employee looks to find exactly what he's hearing and stumbles into the boss' office where we see him handing out money to...
A HANDFUL FOR AN EYEFULThe offbeat humor of Skittles has made its way north of the U.S. border with a three-spot package--"Abs," "Bike" and "Chop"-- out of TBWA oronto directed by Jim Hosking via production house OPC, Toronto. In "...