{"id":19772,"date":"2015-12-03T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/you-can-finally-watch-one-of-this-years-best-shorts-online"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:18:31","slug":"you-can-finally-watch-one-of-this-years-best-shorts-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/you-can-finally-watch-one-of-this-years-best-shorts-online","title":{"rendered":"You Can Finally Watch One of This Year\u2019s Best Shorts Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" id=\"vimeo-146865820\" data-recommend-id=\"vimeo:\/\/146865820\" src=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/ajax\/inset\/iframe?id=vimeo-146865820&start=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We were really impressed with <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/this-short-movie-about-an-endless-future-war-looks-unsp-1690857042#_ga=1.196228396.1899267414.1444577505\">the trailer<\/a> for <em>The Shaman<\/em> when it came out in March. And now, after a successful run at film festivals, you can finally see it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>At seventeen minutes, <em>The Shaman<\/em> is a bit longer than many other shorts, but that\u2019s not to its detriment. It just contributes to the overall sense that what you\u2019re actually seeing is a full cinematic feature film\u2014which makes sense, since it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortoftheweek.com\/news\/interview-with-marco-kalantari-the-shaman\/\" target=\"_blank\">originally conceived as one<\/a>. Marco Kalantari (<em>Ainoa<\/em>) uses every second he has to full effect. We have would-building, effective exposition, action scenes, and a confrontation that\u2019s all about willpower.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is that a war is being waged\u2013a war in which shamans are used to visit the afterlife, in order to talk to the souls of the enemy\u2019s war machines. A few minutes of conversation can bring these souls over\u2013a victory for the shamans. But in a battle with one of them, a shaman gets a bit more than he bargained for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/you-can-finally-watch-one-of-this-years-best-shorts-onl-1745929770\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were really impressed with the trailer for The Shaman when it came out in March. And now, after a successful run at film festivals, you can finally see it for yourself. At seventeen minutes, The Shaman is a bit longer than many other shorts, but that\u2019s not to its detriment. It just contributes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63556,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772\/revisions\/63556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}