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For most of us, short films are either YouTube daybreakers (if they’re funny) or something unseen that still manage to get Oscars every year anyway. In reality, though, short films are just another vast and teeming film subculture spawning and thriving all around us, out of sight, like a termite colony. Since they don’t have any substantial commercial role and it’s tough to make money from them, of course they’re cinema non grata to the mainstream, but you shouldn’t need to be told that contemporary filmmaking is sometimes at its ripest, craziest and most inventive in the short form, and to do any kind of keeping up with that secret and unending cataract, you need Wholphin .

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