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MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.

Asides, Live Action

Corporate Monster

After his eyes are opened to an all pervasive threat an unstable man spirals out of control in Ruairi Robinson’s sci-fi horror short 'Corporate Monster'.

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Asides, Music Video

Tyler, the Creator: A Boy Is A Gun

Tyler, the Creator leans into his IGOR alter-ego as his deteriorating romance runs its course in an opulent mansion in 'A Boy Is A Gun'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Hotel MFW

The Blink Fish take us on a guided tour of the unique guests residing in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Milan Fashion Week short 'Hotel MFW'.

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Asides, Music Video

Stormzy: Sounds of the Skeng

A music video collaboration we hope runs and runs, Henry Scholfield is back ripping up lesser MCs with Stomzy in swaggering promo 'Sounds of the Skeng'.

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Asides, Music Video

Beardyman: 6am (Ready to Write) ft. Joe Rogan

A manic drugs binge turns into a surreal Pinocchio hallucination of epic proportions in Ian Pons Jewell’s promo for Beardyman’s '6am (Ready to Write)'.

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Asides, Music Video

James Massiah: Natural Born Killers (Ride for Me)

Summer in the city becomes a blistering ordeal in Ian Pons Jewell’s sweltering promo for James Massiah’s 'Natural Born Killers (Ride for Me)'.

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Live Action, Music Video

FLOHIO: WAY2

'WAY2' from directing duo Tom Gullam and Ethan Barrett provides an energetic top down view of UK rapper FLOHIO’s South London travels.

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Animation, Asides

Proxy

An artificial child created to ease the pain of his grieving mother comes to understand the limits of his existence in tragic HSLU grad short 'Proxy'.

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Asides, Music Video

Kano: Pan-Fried (Feat. Kojo Funds)

Taichi Kimura takes Kano back to his roots in 'Pan-Fried', a celebration of community bonds forged in the travails of less than ideal life circumstances.

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Live Action

A Young Woman Traverses the Five Stages of Grief in Anna Fredrikke Bjerke’ Reflective Short ‘Outline’

Anna Fredrikke Bjerke talks to us about using the Nordic landscape as an expressive canvas for her intimate portrait of the grieving process in 'Outline'.

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Asides, Music Video

A$AP Rocky: Babushka Boi

A$AP Rocky and his colourful gang get their heist on and run up against the law in Nadia Lee Cohen’s sleek pig-themed music video for 'Babushka Boi'.

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Live Action, Premiere

Dee Meaden Discards Filmmaking Safety Nets in Search of Authenticity in Isolated Sister-Brother Short ‘Sibling’

DN sits down with Dee Meaden to discover how working without production safety nets made room for creative risks and authentic performances in 'Sibling'.

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