By Mike Faloon
Whenever I watch a short film where the writer/director also appears on camera I wonder which skill set they're trying to showcase. So many people use shorts as business cards that I'm left scratching my head; is this guy trying to show how he can frame a shot, write well, or charm an audience? The greatest strength of Off the Hump, a collection of 15 shorts ranging from 30 seconds to eight minutes, is that filmmaker Adam Bourget seems to make shorts as an end unto themselves. Digit Goes Digital probably won't land Bourget a job, but it should. (In said short, Digit, the ambitious primate, leaves the jungles of Rwanda for the jungles of the movie business. It's good fun and perfectly scored by a host of songs from the Primate 5.) Ditto for Superflake, the story of K-77, the world's first cloned snowflake. Off the Hump is a fine way to spend an hour.
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