Self-described "magic realist" filmmaker @fer_liv and his small Argentinian production house Black Sheep films are a font of superb, thrilling short movies.

bsfilms.me

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The latest is ANYWHERE CAN HAPPEN, a description-defying 60-second short that seamlessly combines computer graphics, stock footage, and VFX in a montage of surreal, dizzying scenes.

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As @kottke writes, it's part of the democratization dividend that we get when the power to turn your vision into a shareable reality is put into more hands.

kottke.org/21/04/anywhere…

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All of Livschitz's work is purely amazing - there were moments that made me laugh and others that sent bolts of pure, atavistic anxiety through me, packed into an unimaginably compact form.

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