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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

Nocturne

A strange group of creatures gather to gamble, putting their souls at stake in Anne Breymann’s darkly surreal stop motion short 'Nocturne' (Nachtstück).

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Mitski : A Pearl

Saad Moosajee, Danaé Gosset and Art Camp’s 1,480 frames of animation for Mitski's 'A Pearl' is a perspective shifting bona fide work of art!

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Documentary

Anne Hollowday Explores Women’s Experiences of Objectification in Provocative Metaphor Doc ‘Bird Watching’

DN caught up with director Anne Hollowday to discuss 'Bird Watching', her provocative examination of how women are seen and objectified in modern society.

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Animation, Asides, Live Action

Handsy

LA based Director John Alan Thompson gets us in the Valentine's Day mood with his cute playful tale of dismembered limbs in love, 'Handsy'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Napapijri SS19

Ced Pakusevskij delivers a mix of romance, friendship and adventure unfolding across LA’s sprawling urban playgrounds for Napapijri’s Spring/Summer 2019.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Parklife 2019 Launch Film

Studio Moross get the hottest party in the neighbourhood started in their jam-packed animated launch film for Manchester festival Parklife 2019.

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Asides, Documentary

Good Medicine

Jackson Tisi explores how the youth and elders of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes find peace and healing through skateboarding and tradition.

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Asides, Live Action

Don’t Be a Hero

Peter Lee’s 'Don’t Be a Hero' sees a woman combat the loneliness of her deeply unhappy life by robbing banks in her lunch break dressed as a cowboy.

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Music Video

A Couple Desperately Try to Hold on to a Love Long Dead in Kevork Aslanyan’s ‘Holey Wholly Holy’

Kevork Aslanyan shares how he captured a relationship in terminal free fall in his emotionally intense music video for Sasha Siem's 'Holey Wholly Holy'.

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Animation, Asides

Nothing is Original

Poligonic's Alberto Sáenz Gómez Tello exalts the creative power of stealing from the work that inspires you in animated short 'Nothing is Original'.

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Live Action

A Primary School Teacher Tackles Racism at Its Roots in Jimmy Olsson’s Award Winning Short ‘2nd Class’

'2nd Class' dir. Jimmy Olsson discusses the attraction of narratives about fear, discarding the coverage safety net and why he’ll never play a Nazi again.

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Asides, Documentary

Body Language: Painful Sex

Sindha Agha inventively tells the story of a woman who spends years having the pain she experiences during sex dismissed by doctors in 'Painful Sex'.

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