Wholphin (DVD magazine)


Wholphin was a quarterly DVD magazine running 15 issues containing a selection of short films which had little or no exposure elsewhere. 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.
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. 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.
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Issues

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  • 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, 6 April, 11:42am by Flatform
  • Bearings Glocken by Kawase Kohske
  • Motodrom by Jörg Wagner
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  • 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
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  • 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 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
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Best-of issues

;Volume 1
  • 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 MellAmerican Outrage 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