Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Art House Cut

Cool edit which compresses a large chunk of the main storyline of Eternal Sunshine of the Mind into a short. The A/V editing is very impressive - the edit flows between scenes smoothly and overlaps dialogue with different footage effectively. In particular, the compression of scenes leading into dreams is well done - very frantic - and the choice of ending and rescore was also good. My only critique is that the damage/grindhouse effect is overdone. All in all, it's an enjoyable short.

It goes without saying, make sure to watch the original first.

Another impressive effort at condensing a story and maintaining coherence. Most of the editing seemed fine to me - as some others have noted, the only significant issue with this is the "aged film" effect, which was sometimes quite obviously artificial and would likely have benefitted from further adjustment on a scene-by-scene basis (though this would obviously be quite time-consuming).

Conceptually and as far as the narrative goes, I enjoyed this edit quite a bit. Unfortunately I found the edit's film damage effects unconvincing and fairly distracting. Cool idea though.

Yeahhhh sooooo.... It's definitely safe to say I liked this short the least. The primary problems were:

1) The aging effects felt forced and unnatural.
2) I didn't know what the motherflip was going in. And I've seen the original movie.

When love turns sour, there's a lot of residual pain. This short explores the notion of removing that pain. But like Kirk said - "They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves." I think that sums up the surreal experience that follows. Removing the bad means removing the context for the good memories that make us hurt. Interesting stuff. Film degradation/damage effects seem convincing to me.