Shorts Month 2026: A

The Artificial Humors (2016, Gabriel Abrantes) Half-hour short about a soccer ball-shaped floating robot, its AI programmer, and the girl it’s in love with. The three of them leave the village where it’s been training and go to Sao Paolo, where it’s reprogrammed to be a successful stand-up comedian. Big movie music, seamless effects, cool parrots. – The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady (2019, Gabriel Abrantes) Another very slick-looking half-hour short that ultimately feels simpler and less interesting than his best work. An obvious comparison would be Night at the Museum, if I’d seen that. – Lupo the Butcher (1987, Danny Antonucci) “Sonamabeetch I keel you” says the butcher as he accidentally chops himself to death. Good animation – this got the director a string of MTV gigs, then he created Ed, Edd n Eddy. Marv Newland was involved in this somehow. – She Puppet (2001, Peggy Ahwesh) Someone is playing Tomb Raider, not very well. Feminist(?) machinima, Lara Croft dies over…