Eight million viewers can't be wrong, or can they? In SF360.org's annual survey of film professionals, bloggers and fans, we asked for a best or worst "online-only" video. We didn't predict most respondents would put their chosen short in both categories at the same time. Viral video: plague or unmitigatable pleasure? You decide. We present SF360.org's first collection of Bay Area online hits, from birthday dreaming to doggie dancing. (Note: In keeping with v.v. form, titles retain their original spelling and punctuation.)
When does a dream become a nightmare?
"Same difference with this one."
—Mike Keegan, Roxie Theater
VIDEO ROOM 1000 COMPLETE MIX—All 1000 videos seen in sequential order!
"I am sitting in a video room..."
—Brian Darr, HELLonFRISCObay.blogspot.com
Sugar Slam's Toy Drive
Bed Intruder Song
"Each of these is equally the best and worst links in the entire world."
—Sean Uyehara, Programmer, San Francisco Film Society
Tindersticks: Falling Down A Mountain: Tivoli
Best.
—Steven Jenkins, Deputy Director, San Francisco Film Society
McNugget Rampage Remix (With Sound)
—Marc Huestis, Impressario/Filmmaker
Crow vs Cat vs CatFight!!!
(Editor's note: Unfortunately, no longer available.)
youtube.com/watch?v=BVFvkeWyUUw
—James T. Hong, filmmaker
Presidential Reunion (Funny or Die)
—Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Dancing Merengue Dog
"Over 8 million views."
—Michael Hawley, film-415
Bed Intruder Song (see above)
Football Epic Fail
—George Rush, Law Offices of George M. Rush
This Is How Michael Caine Speaks - The Trip - BBC Two
"I don't know if this counts, but I have watched this approximately 10,000 times."
—Cheryl Eddy, SF Bay Guardian
John Turturro shares his passion for the Neapolitan songbook.
With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
Maria Onetto quietly dazzles in Argentine film about a midlife jigsaw puzzler.
As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
A collaborative project recounts the life and work of a German-born nun located outside Nairobi and the Sudanese Lost Girls she helped find.