Dogs Of War

A 10-minute war movie about a stranded soldier, who tries to survive in a ruined future city. Plenty of ass-kicking follows.

Shot in 12 hours on a budget of just $250!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• war
• battle
• violence
• dogs
• of
• scifi

[ArmaninMaailma]

Hi all, I'm surprised people have actually found & watched this video - We put it up simply so that our friends could check it out. Some answers to comments: All the props were leftovers from a music video my friend did, and soldiers looking exactly like that have never actually fought in war. So I made it a post-apocalyptic story, as people might use whatever gear they can find in a future war with limited resources (continued...)

[ArmaninMaailma]

It's not meant to be a realistic war movie, it's supposed to work on a more symbolic and allegorical level. Originally I did the film because I wanted to test how it would feel to film a story really fast (only 12 hours), with no money (just 250 dollars) with just an outline of a story, and 100% improvised camera work and fight coreography. It was actually a lot of fun to work that way (Continued...)

[ArmaninMaailma]

A bit more info on the theme: I wanted one of the actors to look middle-eastern (He's persian) and one to look like caucasian (He's finnish). Also in the end the peace declaration is both in english and in persian, although it's hard to notice that (bad editing, I should have made it more clear). So the underlying idea is that the war is between muslim and christian world. (Continued...)

[ArmaninMaailma]

On the other hand, I didn't want to push that idea too much to the front, because I didn't want to reflect current world events, I prefer to do something that works on a more general level.

I just watched the video for the first time in almost two years, and actually kinda liked it. It's clunky for sure, but I think the visual storytelling is fairly solid. It didn't suck, as I thought it would.

Thanks for kind comments!

- Tuukka / director-writer-producer-cinem­atographer-editor-SFX-artist

[MrBlackwolf10]

@KyleStephens the knuckle knives are called trench spikes

[ComancheWarrior]

Good Job Man

[HighKall]

Dude, this is an awesome short. I especially loved how you ended it. Very symbolic.

[KyleStephens]

just soo u know sniper's dont miss most of the time and they carrie pistols not knucle knifes lol, but apart from that its quite gud

[Archmayratus]

Awesome short film all around.

[metalomania91]

hmmm was more lıke a kung fu movıe than war movıe..but consıderıng thıs ıs amature stuff ı can just say one thıng... WOOOOOOOOOOOW. ı thınk that explaıns my poınt.