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Tiny Explosions is the 2025 Des Moines 48 Hour Film Project Best of City winner. I love that sentence. We've been there before but to win our way is so rewarding. We ended up taking home Best Film, Best Directing, Audience Award (Group C), and Best Ensemble! Winning Best Film teamed with Best Ensemble is a resounding victory and endorsement of our dedication to sillyness and fun. Please watch the film and enjoy a pun taken beyond where anyone could ever expect.
Making Magic is out
Making Magic is out
After nearly a year-long journey, Making Magic is publicly available to stream on YouTube.
It started as a whim to make something new for the debut of the Fleur Film Festival, turned into a family-friendly film tribute to Pat's mom, and now may be our funniest film. Maybe. I mean that is a hard bar to clear, but if you heard the laughs at the Fleur Film Festival premiere, you'd think the same thing. Such a fun experience. Cutting the behind the scenes will be a laugh riot as well.
It's time to Defund the HOA
It's time to Defund the HOA
One of the best parts of doing the 48 Hour Film Project is how Friday at 6pm, you have no idea what film you will have completed just two days later. The only way you would know is is you're cheating and pre-writing your story, which negates the point of the contest. Perfect example of this is our latest 48HFP short, "Defund the HOA." Writing a goofy thriller about a suburban terrorist plot to force the dissolution of an HOA is not something we created outside of the 48 pressure cooker. The only reason it does exist is Friday night our brainstorm session was kind of taken over by the idea.
One of the best parts of doing the 48 Hour Film Project is how Friday at 6pm, you have no idea what film you will have completed just two days later. The only way you would know is is you're cheating and pre-writing your story, which negates the point of the contest. Perfect example of this is our latest 48HFP short, "Defund the HOA." Writing a goofy thriller about a suburban terrorist plot to force the dissolution of an HOA is not something we created outside of the 48 pressure cooker. The only reason it does exist is Friday night our brainstorm session was kind of taken over by the idea.
Now with 2024 summer 48 behind us, Defund the HOA is available for all to enjoy. Best of City was an pleasant surprise with the film taking Best Editing and Best Direction. Enjoy the film and we'll see you in October with another short courtesy of the 48 Horror competition.
Tiny Explosions is a rotating circus of Central Iowa friends who enjoy playing pretend and occasionally attempt to create short films.
The roots of our filmmaking trace back to the mid-90s when founding members Brian Hogan and Patrick Boberg met in junior high. What started as simple silliness with cameras eventually spawned "films" about a serial cat killer, destruction of private property, free-style walking, a sentient lawn ornament, political activism to create New Kids on the Block Day, and other nonsense.
Fast forward 15 years where Hogan and Pat once again found themselves with too much free time, access to camera equipment, puppets and the ever present storytelling itch. Within six months, the duo had created three goofy short films and felt ready to take on the 2012 Des Moines 48 Hour Film Project.
As the years pass our free time to make films has waxed and waned, but come each July, we drop everything to produce a new installment in the Tiny Explosions saga.
Please enjoy the films, as well as the behind the scenes extras from every film.
Following the 2023 48 Hour Film Project, Pat was invited out to Marengo to show Essential Essence in an online 48 short film showcase hosted by Mediaverse Studios. Laughs were had, longwinded tangents were discussed, and puppets were celebrated. Enjoy.
Life is Short, Be Silly.
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