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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, Music Video

Tom Walker: Just You and I

The inconvenient consequences of a drunken night before slowly warm into a day of romance in Caviar director Ollie Wolf's 'Just You and I' for Tom Walker.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Khruangbin: Cómo Te Quiero

Mexican animation studio Cossa set out on a final trip of wonder for Khruangbin's 'Cómo Te Quiero' – a tender tribute to bassist Laura Lee’s grandfather.

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Animation, Asides

Sivan Talmor: Sad Heart

The ever impressive Karni&Saul send a woman out on an emotional journey along a sound wave in their animated music video for Sivan Talmor’s 'Sad Heart'.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Teenage Girl Uses Her Newfound Superpower to Steal Her High School Crush’s Virginity in Andrew Wonder’s ‘Whipped’

Andrew Wonder takes DN behind the scenes of 'Whipped' - the story of a teenage girl who uses her superpower to steal her high school crush’s virginity.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Mindless Crowd

Jacco Kliesch examines the patterns humans have stamped on the surface of planet earth and asks what it’s all for in aerial short 'Mindless Crowd'.

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Music Video, Premiere

Ainhoa Rodríguez Captures the Sensuality of an Elderly Woman’s Erotic Fantasy in ‘Fade’

Ainhoa Rodríguez talks to DN about challenging the taboos around the depiction of sexual desire in elderly women in her sensual music video for Chloé Bird

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Animation, Asides

Cubed

A man with a Rubik’s Cube head who finds himself out of sync with his peers struggles to connect in Xue Enge’s final year grad short 'Cubed'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Live Action

Cell Watch Strip Cell

Jane Morledge's 'Cell Watch Strip Cell' adapts Susannah Nevison’s poem into a powerful exploration of the debilitating effects of solitary confinement.

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Animation, Asides

Food Porn

15 UK students flex their filth muscles in Seed Animation Studio’s collaborative short 'Food Porn' - a scandalous collection of saucy animated scenes.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Gloom // Bloom

Etienne Perrone journeys through the end days in a hypnotic mix of urban and landscape cinematography in experimental short 'Gloom // Bloom'.

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Documentary, Music Video, Premiere

Leo Pfeifer Explores What Happens When a Career Drummer Can No Longer Keep the Beat in Doc ‘Lost Time’

Leo Pfeifer talks to DN about 'Lost Time', his intimate reflective documentary about what happens when a career drummer can no longer keep the beat.

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Animation, Asides

Play Boys

Vincent Lynen whiles away some idle time in the company of macho men, guns, cars, motorcycles & hot girls in his chain reaction grad short 'Play Boys'.

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