via vimeo.com Beautiful and brilliant. How often do you identify inanimate objects as character in such a diverse way over 4 minutes? So many subtle turns.

via vimeo.com Great high frame rate capture and really cool use of negative space.

via vimeo.com Kinda like Schoolhouse Rock for people past the schoolhouse. What better way to learn genetics in three minutes?

via vimeo.com Another fun short from Vimeo. Good to show the kids as an example of the power of cooperation!

via vimeo.com Some fun animation to provide a much-needed mind break.

via vimeo.com A really cool Vimeo mindsuck in the best kind of way. Great for a 3 minute break from reality.

via vimeo.com I don't live anywhere near L.A. or care about Carmageddon. I have my own highway bane of existence called the QEW. That said, if this was Carmageddon, I wish it could be Carmageddon...

via vimeo.com A poignant sci-fi allegory of the Brixton race riots from England's recent history. This is based on real events. Just search "Brixton race riot" on Google to find out some of the scariness...

via vimeo.com Funny and clever wrapped up in 10 minutes. A really fun journey through movie cliches and just the right amount of twist. Give yourself a coffee break in front of Vimeo and come away...

via vimeo.com A beautifully executed animated short that will take the better part of your coffee break to get through yet is oh-so-worth it. Reminiscent of the film 9 or a Tool video on first...

via vimeo.com While I realize the style of this video may be seizure-inducing for some people, S.I.T.E compresses some of humanity's worst alien, dystopian fears into five minutes or less. Creepy...

via vimeo.com If you search for "kinetic type" on Vimeo or YouTube, you'll essentially find video with animated text. They vary in quality from flat and simple, to those like this one. Above and...

via vimeo.com I don't know what could attract me to a 3.5 minute video with this as the narrative: "As his planet boils in the glow of a cascading Tesseract a young femto-panda makes a brave attempt...

via vimeo.com A starkly beautiful and tragic animated short that screams Kafka and Orwell, while being beautifully punctuated by a lonely piano. Maybe not 2.5 minutes that will rev up your engines...

via vimeo.com A little sonic psychedelia for your enjoyment on lovehatethings whilst I spend some time in Vancouver.

via vimeo.com A pristine 147 seconds of story-telling through the Paradise Regained equivalent of Duck Amuck. And if you understand that reference, you get a +1 FTW.

via vimeo.com Imagine STOMP meets the housewares department and sit back to enjoy the groove.

via vimeo.com It's amazing how a 10 minute short film about a guy and a girl and motorized vehicles that don't change into Autobots can be infinitely more entertaining than Transformers 2.

via vimeo.com Here's another great reason to go to Vimeo. If you're guitarist or just love music, put an hour aside from American Midol and check out this doc on the classic Cry Baby Wah pedal...

via vimeo.com A sobering two minute look at our dependency on oil through the lens of the amount of spillage in last year's BP blowout.