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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.

Live Action, Podcasts

DN300: The Battery – Jeremy Gardner

The brief description which reads, two former baseball players trying to survive a zombie apocalypse may be serviceable as a short synopsis for Jeremy

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Asides, Music Video

Wilkinson: Afterglow

Remy Cayuela quantifies the moments which make up a five year relationship in his creative visual stats promo Afterglow for Wilkinson.

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Asides, Music Video

Bored Nothing: Let Down

Youthful infatuation with the older girl down the street hits a roadblock in Bored Nothing’s Let Down promo from director Abteen Bagheri.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

films4peace 2013: Piñata – Anthony Goicolea

One of six films created for World Peace Day (21st September) as part of annual collection films4peace in which contemporary artists are commissioned to

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Live Action

Take a Look at 'Blue Monday' Birthday Malaise with Charles Chintzer Lai

For some of us there comes a point when the annual occurrence of a birthday becomes less about jelly and ice cream or a night of alcohol infused revelry and

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Asides, Music Video

Sin Cos Tan: Limbo

Death stalks a netherworld waiting room for the dearly departed in Ville Salminen’s metaphysical promo for Sin Cos Tan’s Limbo.

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Animation, Asides

704 Frames

Josep Bernaus animates up 704 Frames of pure fun.

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Documentary

A Modern Dancer’s Hard Work Comes to the Fore in Kendy Ty’s ‘Behind the Move’

Kendy Ty discusses shifting his cinematic gaze to the documentation of a dancer who moves to Paris in pursuit of her art in 'Behind the Move'.

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Animation, Asides

Sam’s Hot Dogs

David Lopez Retamero presents the animated tale of a man, his bear and hot dogs in his 2009 RCA short Sam’s Hot Dogs.

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Asides, Music Video

Knytro: Still Standing

Knytro shouts out to the forefathers of rap in Drew Cox’s FX peppered promo for Still Standing.

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Music Video

Finding the Charm & Mystery in Andrew Bayer’s ‘Need Your Love’

In Michal Bolland’s music video for Andrew Bayer’s Need Your Love, a woman wanders through, yet apart from, the natural habitat that surrounds her

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Animation, Asides

Animatou Idents

Isn’t that just the way, you wait ages for a stop motion ident from Max Hattler then four excellent ones arrive at once for the Animatou animation

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