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cups being knocked off tables
a holiday film like no other

LENGTH: 15 min.

STARRING: A Cast Of Dozens

RELEASED: December 8, 2002

GIST: cups being knocked off tables. merry christmas.
Months in the making, thousands of miles were traversed and hundreds of cups were knocked off tables to bring the world this film, the first in a new generation of holiday classics.

DOWNLOAD THE FILM

VersionFilenameFormatSize
Best Quality Cups_HQ.wmv Windows Media 175 MB
Medium Quality Cups_MQ.mpg MPEG2 117 MB
OK Quality Cups_OKQ.mov Quicktime 49 MB
Adequate Quality Cups_LQ.wmv Windows Media 58 MB

THE TRAILERS

VersionFilenameFormatSize
The Wendys Trailer CupsTrailer_LAN.ram RealVideo 5 MB
The Chuck E. Cheese Trailer Cups_Trailer2.wmv Windows Media 5 MB

GOODIES

  • The Flier
  • A plea for submissions. It was responded to by exactly noone. I then realized I had to go ahead and film it all myself.
  • An outtake because security yelled at us before we could knock the cups off the table

REVIEWS

LOOK OUT BELOW: Here's the best online short film I've seen in awhile: Fifteen minutes of footage, from all over the country, of "Cups Being Knocked Off Tables." (P.S.: the picture on the web page is of Charlie Chaplin. NOT Hitler.)
-Stephen Silver 1/9/03

I had some trouble really getting into the Christmas spirit this year. If only I'd watched this.
-Chris Newman 1/9/03

I liked Cups being knocked off tables a lot!
-Emily Jones 1/9/03

It seems to be a tribute to mental illness ... and traveling.
-Siguy 1/12/03

NOTES: Released December 8th, 2002. Trailers below preceded Wong: A Short Film and The Center Of Shame. Shown with trailer for forthcoming short film New Lots.
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