Short Film Week, Day 1: Five short films

[This entry is a contribution to the Short Film blog-a-thon being hosted right here at Only The Cinema, in association with Culture Snob.]Todd Haynes' first film was the controversial Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, his mock-documentary account of the Carpenters lead singer's rise to stardom, battles with anorexia, and untimely death, with reenactments performed by a cast of Barbie dolls.