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Uso Justo (and Wholphin)

Uso Justo
a screenshot from Uso Justo
Minnesota filmmaker Coleman Miller has been making experimental films, scratch films, etc. for over twenty years now. If you happened to catch my recent post on The InDigest Blog I was plugging Wholphin (which is a short film magazine put out by McSweeneys - that comes highly recommended, it's a bit pricey but it's worth it). Anyhow I've continued working through the issues of Wholphin I currently have, but Wholphin also has online exclusive content and Coleman Miller's new film "Uso Justo" was selected for this. It's been doing the festival circuit and winning tons of awards (and deservedly so). He said the initial idea came from telling his friends that he was going to make a foreign film, and wasn't quite sure what he actually meant by that, but it seems as though he figured that out. You can find the film for free online here. I know I post a lot of links etc. but this is really worth it, especially if you're into minnesota filmmakers Coleman Miller is pretty good and is garnering a lot of attention for this short.


Also as a side plug for how much I love Wholphin I just finished up Issue 3 and saw Alexander Payne's (Sideways, About Schmidt) film school project at UCLA called "The Passion of Martin" and it was pretty great, provided an interesting insight into his work. It's very dark, very disturbing, utilizes voice over in much the same way that About Schmidt, Election and his short from Paris J'taime did. It's an interesting window into his world. But there now you see how great Wholphin is, great new shorts like "Uso Justo," they do some of their own films, and then classics like this or a video of Dennis Hopper trying to blow himself up from the 80s ("Russian Suicide Chair").
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