*Not really; see below.

This is my last-minute submission for the Five-Second Film Weekend Project (3/15/11). The challenge: make a film that's, as you might expect, eight seconds long.**

**Three of those seconds count toward intro (2 seconds) and credits (1 second), so it's not as absurd to call it a "five-second film" as it initially seems to be. But the whole intro/credits time allowance does raise interesting questions about which parts of any film are the true (i.e. film) parts that count toward its totality, and which parts are auxiliary or ancillary (i.e. not-film) parts. Seems to me that a five-second film should be five seconds long, start-to-finish, and that any five-second film that's eight seconds long should change its name. I'm not consumed by these sorts of issues; I'm just saying. Please deposit your counterarguments/slapdowns in the comment section below.

Thanks for watching.