Short Film: "The Explanation"

[Nanowise]

This is more of a complication than a short film.

[privateryanify]

when it cut to black at the end there should've been a text that "absolutely nothing". awesome editing skills you got there though.

[TutMan247]

when the old lady with a high pitched voice is talking. what movie is that.

and when the guys is talking about "existence of a soul" what movie was that too

[insomniacdad]

The lady with the high-pitched voice is Zelda Rubenstein, who played the psychic "house cleaner" in "Poltergeist." The guy talking about the existence of a soul is John Cusack in "Being John Malkovich."

[loaaarrr]

I don't know about the one with the lady.

but the one with the guy explaining is "Being John Malkovich"

[Barqu3ntine]

"Yes... and no"

[ryanman1982]

ha cool. that really good how you've linked them all together nice!

[lecochonbleu]

Thank you so much.

[surfink]

Nice work, Matt!

[kaichan06]

Very good. My only complaint, it's actually Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope :P

[insomniacdad]

Yeah, that was a Freudian slip on my part (see first comment in the thread). After all these years I still tend to think of the films as being numbered in order of their actual release.

[kaichan06]

Well, I suppose if I had scrolled through the comments >> That was just bad on my part, I apologize. Still good though!

[Mythomaniacal]

Beautiful and hilarious, Matt. What's the music in the background?

[insomniacdad]

That's a piece by my grandmother, Hazel O. Volkart, titled "Memories." It's taken off a monaural cassette tape made by my grandfather in about 1978, in their living room in Kansas City, KS.

[discosanchez]

This is both very funny and sublime. It's a cinematic cut-up poem about the poetry of cinema.

[priyankspatel]

huh

[tyrroo]

I don't get it. :(

[retardskull]

Superb, and somehow poignant.

[lesterkhouri]

Niiice!!!!

[muckster]

terrific

[gopictures]

great stuff!

[TrcikyBuddha]

I'll agree with you 100 %. :) And nice work, again, on the cutting and selection of clips.

[TrcikyBuddha]

Star Wars, Episode 1! :p Great clip, though. This was fun! :)

[insomniacdad]

I know I date myself with that slip, but the 1977 "Star Wars" will always be "Episode 1" to me.