Selected Short Films by Mel Halbach
These six short films, produced over a span of twenty years, are as unique as the subjects that inspired them. Touching on subjects of social and political consciousness, world culture or the mundanity of day to day life all are imbued with the wry eye of a playful storyteller.
Purchase DVD
In addition to being fully viewable online, these shorts are available for purchase on a single DVD for only $29.00 for your viewing pleasure or gifting to loving friends ;) + shipping/handling, $6 within US.
The Game
This award winning experimental/documentary film examines a Wisconsin card game, farm life, the Chicago Commodities Market, and the loss of rural culture in American Society.
http://www.vimeo.com/2526323- Film Length – 13 minutes
- Mastered in 16mm film
- 1991
Malignant
An award winning experimental film about the deterioration of industrialized man.
http://www.vimeo.com/2526308- Film Length – 4 minutes
- Mastered in 16mm film
- 1987
Pigskin Serenade
This film documents the gracefulness and brutality of the University of Utah football team.
http://www.vimeo.com/2526315- Film Length – 4 minutes
- Mastered in 16mm film
- 1987
The Marble Mountain Girls Take Americans & Mr. Meow to Heaven
An experimental documentary that explores a famous Vietnamese tourist attraction.
http://www.vimeo.com/2526067- Film Length – 8 minutes
- Mastered in 16mm film and video
- 1996
Songs By Satellite
Frustrated with music CD packaging? The solution is only a phone call away.
http://www.vimeo.com/2526325- Film Length – 3 minutes
- Mastered in digital video
- 1999
My Life on a Sub or How I Learned to Live with the Bomb
A satirical personal account of life on-board a nuclear ballistic submarine. (Filmed on-board the Russian submarine Scorpion in Long Beach, California.)
- Film Length – 6 minutes
- Mastered in High Definition video
- 2006
This film is not currently viewable online and is currently available only through purchase of Shorts DVD (see you had to have some bonus for buying it ;)