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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.

Animation, Asides, Film Festival

OFFF Barcelona 2019 Main Titles

Chris Bjerre's OFFF 2019 titles envision a parallel universe where infrastructure and power have collapsed freeing the way for organic life to evolve.

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Animation, Asides

Eli

Nate Milton channels his experiences within the realms of High Strangeness, Magical Thinking and Manic Delusion into new his animated short 'Eli'.

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Live Action, Music Video, Premiere

Stathis Athanasiou Tracks the Stages of Female Fury in Music Video Trilogy Meets Short Film ‘Rage Park’

Stathis Athanasiou discusses stealing unapologetically, the creativity of limitations and expressing female fury in music video trilogy short 'Rage Park'.

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Animation, Asides

Continued

Russian Motion Designer Tomin shares a rather delightful collection of fun motion sketches devised as miniature process tests in 'Continued'.

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Asides, Live Action

No Room For Grey

Crooked Cynics are back with 'No Room For Grey' - a mockumentary short about warring council estate chess pieces with little appetite for compromise.

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Animation, Asides

The Ogre

Laurene Braibant excels in writing/directing duties for 'The Ogre' – a beautiful meets grotesque short about the titular character’s insatiable hunger.

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Asides, Music Video

Stormzy: Vossi Bop

Caviar director Henry Scholfield bangs out another epic music video, this time hitting the London streets with Stormzy to get their 'Vossi Bop' on.

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Asides, Music Video

FKA twigs: Cellophane

Andrew Thomas Huang's 'Cellophane' sees the unfathomable FKA twigs nail an expressive pole dance performance which demands your emotional engagement.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Juliette Hüsler Steps Outside the Bounds of Space & Time in Experimental Solo Project ‘Circle’

Juliette Hüsler talks to DN about working solo whilst attempting to creatively depict the theory of the multiverse in experimental short film 'Circle'.

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Asides, Music Video

Sody: The Bully

Will & Carly remind us to stay true to ourselves as they call out those who use our differences as weapons against us in Sody music video 'The Bully'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Eleventh Century

A menagerie of colourful critters populate the world of Marco Puccini’s new animated music video for YGT track 'Eleventh Century'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Elastic Recurrence

Johan Rijpma transforms the shards of a dinner plate into a self-replicating cycle of falling and retracting connected fragments in 'Elastic Recurrence'.

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