Wolphin magazine is a whopping good time

The relentlessly exploratory crew at Wholphin have designed this quarterly DVD magazine, published by the folks at McSweeney’s, composed of “rare and unseen” film shorts to make you feel like they felt upon learning that “dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it.” Wholphin No. 15, the latest smorgasbord of fact, fiction and that dubious area somewhere in between, includes live-action and animated shorts from such film fests as Cannes and Sundance, and other gems (an MRI-induced rumination on love, eight violinists braving rapids in a wooden boat, for starters) that would languish in obscurity if not for these stalwart archivists. Each issue contains a DVD and a companion booklet. I never know which to devour first. www.wholphinvd.com.