Independent Short Films: “Rent-A-Person” & “Lavatory Love Story”

February 7th, 2009

I wonder which of these two Independent Short Films was made first.

I find them to be remarkably similar.

First, Rent-A-Person. Some of you might notice that this film is the prequel to another Independent Short Film which I posted, Validation, which is still quite popular and getting passed around very frequently. Seriously, if you haven’t seen Validation yet, you owe it to yourself to watch it here. Rent-A-Person and Validation share one overlapping scene, which in my opinion should have been the same footage in both movies. In the scene from Rent-A-Person, actor TJ Thyne (Something’s Gotta Give, Heartbreakers, What Women Want, Erin Brokovich) is clean shaven, whereas in the same scene in Validation (filmed three years later), he has a beard. See for yourself:

Next, there’s the simplistic animated Independent Short Film, Lavatory Love Story (I’m finding a lot of interesting animations lately, especially stop-motion.) which is thematically similar to Rent-A-Person. Watch below:

What are your thoughts?

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