Short Attention Span Theater
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"Short Attention Span Theater" is a short film that won First Place at DVD Fest 2006. An absurdist comedy work, it was a collaborative effort by several students who called themselves Team Funky Eskimo. The team captain was Ben Egerman '08, a member of Lenny Dee. The film was made by the same team that produced the 2005 DVDFest movie, The Dead Menace, an informative public service anouncement on the dangers of zombie attack.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
Summary
The film is a series of short sketches designed for those "with the attention spans of hummingbirds," as the opening narration states. These include:
- Don Quixote, riding on a bicycle, attacking the college's new windmill.
- A person who slides down a hill is mysteriously pushed back up with equal force.
- A guy who is unable to card in to Goodhue attempts to make love to the card reader.
- A girl finds herself tripping over every stair she encounters, yet relentlessly keeps trying.
- Another person who slides down a hill is mysteriously eaten.
- A hamburger tries to talk a guy out of eating it.
- A group of students walk around with a boombox playing "Like a Prayer" by Madonna. Everyone they encounter immediately strips off their shirts and joins the group.
Continuity Errors
The film contains several continuity errors, largely due to limited editing time and faulty cameras. Among them are:
- The girl who falls down the stairs in the 4th, 6th, and 8th scenes is wearing a hat in the 8th, but not in the prior two
- There are two distinct audio tracks playing simultaneously in the last traying sequence, an editing error.
- The size of the group of shirtless dancers clearly diminishes during the part where they are running down the hallway outside of Great Hall.
External links
- Watch "Short Attention Span Theater" at the DVD Fest official site
