The Great Geek Manual

Aperture: Lab Ratt is a live action interpretation of VALVe’s web comic
‘Portal 2: Lab Rat’ and follows the story of the schizophrenic hero
behind the walls; Doug Rattmann. You remember Doug, the guy who did all the paintings you find tucked behind the walls in the game. It starts a little slow, but once things start to go poorly, the flick really hits its stride.  

Lab Ratt runs for 14 minutes, so have some cake handy before hitting play.

Director Finn O’Hara re-made the classic viral video ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ into a short film for the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, which will be held June 5 -10, 2012. Taking place in downtown Toronto, the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) showcases specially-themed 90-minute programs, with each program offering from 5-20 films — all for as low as $10 a ticket! WSFF is North America’s largest venue for short film exhibition, industry programming, and marketplace.
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At San Diego Comic-Con International in 2009, a short film by Clare Grant and Rileah Vanderbilt and their Danger Maiden Productions (along with Ariescope Pictures) called Saber won the awards for both Best Action Short and Audience Choice in the 8th Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards competition.

You loved Saber. Now, the long-awaited release of it’s sequel, Saber 2: Return of the Body Wash is finally here! What’s more, it’s everything fans of the first video could have hoped for. Rileah Vanderbilt and Clare Grant returning for more light sabering, more suds, and more comedy. Saber 2 is is directed by Grant’s husband, Seth Green.
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Team 2X is a professional martial arts performance consisting of members with experience in Hollywood films and television. With their unique talent in creating mind blowing fight sequences and GakAttack’s passion for combining Visual FX with Martial Arts action. Jedi Ninjas became the result of this collaboration.

This fifty-five minute French fan film is set inside the Wachowski Brothers’ Matrix trilogy. In follows Kaydara, a human bounty hunter living apart from the humans of Zion. Not only does Kaydara not believe in the prophecy of “The One,” he believes that the prophecy is a threat to the self-awareness of the humans still trapped inside the Matrix. In the film, he hunts Neo, seeking to confront him before he can ruin humanity’s hope for the future.

Source: Kaydara film site via Quiet Earth

“My name is Blinky, and I just want to be your friend!” A well-crafted short film by Ruairi Robinson

Somnolence is a short film based on a feature treatment written by Patrick Kalyn and shot in just two days on a budget of ten thousand dollars. For all its small scale, though, it packs an enormous punch. Its special effects are simply outstanding.

This poetic spot promotes NASA’s recent attempts to educate Americans about its mission through social networks. The beautiful narration is distinctly reminiscent of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which I whole-heartedly applaud.