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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.

Music Video

Sillyboy: Nature of Things

Stathis Mourdoukoutas rekindles the creative partnership with Sillyboy we saw in Coast to Coast, as the girl crazy Athenian art-rocker tries, and fails, to

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Animation

The Sugar Cube Mission

If the thought of having your morning cup of joe prepared by miniature helicopter appeals to you, you’re going to love Georgios Papaioannou’s The

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Animation

Retrogenese

In her graduation film Retrogenese Suus Hessling uses stop motion to explain the medical and personal deterioration suffered by those afflicted with

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Live Action

Ibizious Energy Drink

If you ever wanted to see what the results of drinking ultra-fresh, pure energy are look no further than this 80s infused (NSFW) Ibizious Energy Drink promo.

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Animation

Metaman

In this futuristic animation from Yoann Durand, Yannick Sroussi and Julien Lenoury of Boombros, planet Earth is under attack by evil organisation The Triangle

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Animation

My Cover of…

Created as interstitial movies for graphic festival Beyonderground, Kristof Luyckx’s six-part animation series My Cover of… sees an assortment of

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Live Action

Straus Park

Passion abounds in Norman Bates’ intriguing (and slightly NSFW) trailer for Straus Park, the new novel from P. B. Gronda.

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Animation

More Than Just a Hobby

We honed our quick draw skills with the Ready Steady Bang mobile app and got to experience 30 ways to die in the accompanying animation. Now in short More Than

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Live Action

Speechless

Preparing to give a wedding speech can be a stressful experience at the best of times, but in Paul Briganti’s comedy Speechless, Dan has to find

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Live Action

OFFF 2013 Open Titles

Maintaining OFFF’s flawless hit rate for commissioning impressive title sequences which make you wish they were the opening moments of a feature, Ms.

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Animation

Luggage

Life can be a hard climb and as Stas Dobry reminds us in his animation, even if you make it to the top you’ll always carry your Luggage with you.

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Live Action

Journal of an Epidemic_

If you share my paranoia about touching door handles, eating communal nuts or being trapped in a lift with sneezing strangers, then you may want to give

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