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Wholphin Editor Brent Hoff Frequency Quarterly First issue December 2005 Final issue February 2012 Company McSweeney's Country US Based in San Francisco Website
Wholphin
Wholphin was a quarterly
DVD magazine running 15 issues containing a selection of
short films which had little or no exposure elsewhere.
[1] The magazine was created by
Dave Eggers and Brent Hoff of
McSweeney's publishing house. It was named after the
marine animal of the same name , a rare hybrid of a false killer whale and a dolphin, which highlights its unusual nature.
[2]
Eggers and Hoff claim they were inspired to create it after the
Cannes Film Festival , which is one of very few places at which many of these short films can ever be seen. Short films and
documentaries have limited exposure to the general public because, in the words of Hoff, "they're too short to show on TV, and they don't play in theaters because they'd rather show some great trivia about
Adam Sandler ."
The first issue of Wholphin was released in December 2005, containing among others a documentary by
Spike Jonze about
Al Gore , by
David O. Russell on U.S. soldiers in
Iraq , films by
Miguel Arteta and
Miranda July ,
David Byrne and
Selma Blair ,
Turkish
sitcoms and
Iranian animation.
[2] Issue 15, the last Wholphin, was published February 2012.
Issues 2, 3, and 4 each came with a bonus DVD of the three parts of the documentary
The Power of Nightmares by
Adam Curtis . The magazine did not include any
advertisement .
[1]
Issues
Issue 1 (2007)
Issue 2 (2007)
Issue 3 (2007)
Issue 4 (2007)
Two Cars, One Night by
Taika Waititi
High Falls by
Andrew Zuckerman , screenplay by Alex Vlack
Strange Culture by
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Heavy Metal Jr. by
Chris Waitt
Schastlivy Vmeste (Happy Together) (re-scripted Russian sitcom)
Heavy Metal Drummer by Toby MacDonald and
Luke Morris
La Chatte Andalouse by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
Tom's War on Terror by Cameron Fay
Cheeta (Original Wholphin short)
Site Specific_Las Vegas 05 by
Olivo Barbieri
Bonus Disc: The Power of Nightmares Part III: The Shadows in the Cave by
Adam Curtis
Issue 5 (2008)
Death to the Tinman by
Ray Tintori
Drunk Bees by Wholphin
House Hunting by
Amy Lippman
American Outrage by George Gage
Madame Tutli-Putli by
Chris Lavis and
Maciek Szczerbowski
Piece by Piece by West Side Filmworks
Chonto by Carson Mell
Echos Der Buchrücken (Parts I & III) by
Cesar Velasco Broca
One Day with the SLA by David Martinez and
Shane Bauer
Monument Valley Flight Attempt by Will Lamson
John "Kung Fu" Wang by Dan Vest
Shot Through by Tom Dale
Issue 6 (2008)
Issue 7 (2008)
Issue 8 (2009)
Issue 9 (2009)
Sparks by
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
La Corona produced and directed by
Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
The Creature Within & Melbourne Years by
Spike Jonze
Maurice at the World's Fair by
Spike Jonze and
Lance Bangs
Acting for the Camera directed by Justin Nowell, written by
Thomas Nowell
Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin
Jerrycan by
Julius Avery
The Unmaking of 'I Am a Sex Addict' by
Caveh Zahedi
Sister Wife by Jill Orschel
Mompelaar by Wim Reygaert and Marc Roels
Sunday, 6th April, 11:42am by Flatform
Bearings Glocken by Kawase Kohske
Motodrom by Jörg Wagner
Issue 10 (2009)
Issue 11 (2010)
Issue 12 (2010)
Static No. 12 by Daniel Crooks
Ride No. 2 by Daniel Crooks
Pan No. 2 by Daniel Crooks
Rob and Valentyna in Scotland by Eric Lynne
Mi Amigo Invisible by Pablo Larcuen
Woman in Burka by
Jonathan Lisecki
Miracle Fish by
Luke Doolan
I Don't Blame the Beautiful Game by Christopher Arcella
Drunk History Vol. 3, created by
Derek Waters , directed by Jeremy Konner
Dynamic Tom: Portrait of a Cocksman by
Andrew Cohn
Here Comes Greatness by Matthew Lue & Greg Fiering
The Armoire by
Jamie Travis
Issue 13 (2011)
Successful Alcoholics by
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
'N Me For Myself by Giorgis Grigorakis
Arsy-Versy by Miro Remo
Crossbow by
David Michôd
The History of Aviation by Bálint Kenyeres
Mosquito by Jeremy Engle
The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. by
Dash Shaw
Delemeier Builds a Machine by Landon Zakheim
We Are the Faithful by
Michael Koch
How to Explain It to My Parents (Arno Coenen) by Lernert & Sander
Issue 14 (2011)
Quadrangle by Amy Grappell
Please Say Something by
David OReilly
Pioneer by
David Lowery
I Am a Girl! by Susan Koenen
Soft by
Simon Ellis
Feeder by Joseph Ernst
Chicken Heads (Roos Djaj) by Bassam Jarbawi
The Eagleman Stag by Mikey Please
Inside Report from Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Evacuation Zone by Tetsuo Jimbo
Styrofoam by
Noah Sheldon
Sasquatch Birth Journal 2 by David & Nathan Zellner
Issue 15 (2012)
Best-of issues
Volume 1 (2008)
Two Cars, One Night directed by
Taika Waititi
Heavy Metal Jr. directed by Chris Waitt
The Pity Card directed by
Bob Oedenkirk
Chonto directed by Carson Mell
American Outrage (excerpt) directed by
George and Beth Gage
Wallyball: "Yeah, Yeah, We Speak English. Just Serve." by Wholphin
The Delicious directed by Scott Prendergast
More directed by
Mark Osborne
A Stranger in Her Own City directed by Khadija Al-Salami
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? directed by
Miguel Arteta
Untitled
Patton /
Byrne Piece by Wholphin
Baby Squid, Born Like Stars by Wholphin
Tactical Advantage directed by Daren Rabinovitch
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