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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

Duck Sauce: It’s You

Philip Andelman busts out some pretty impressive hair moves in his barber shop promo for Duck Sauce’s It’s You.

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Live Action

Madame Perrault’s Bluebeard

Before melting our brains with Stress Position A.J. Bond feasted our eyes with Madame Perrault’s Bluebeard, his award-winning re-envisioning of Charles

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN293: Stress Position – A.J. Bond

Could you survive a week of Guantanamo Bay like psychological torture? Canadian director A.J. Bond returns to DN with new feature Stress Position; a mind

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Animation

Tacky, Sticky & Glutinous

Make sure you’ve got a firm grip on reality before letting David Maingault submerge you in a world of dreams and frustrations teetering on the brink of

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Animation

Z

Alan Warburton paints a CG animated vision of the Apocalypse in monochrome, making for a hauntingly eerie yet compulsively compelling watch.

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Documentary

The Revenge of the Beasts

When I was a kid I saw a skater jumping for the first time, I believed it was magic that made him fly. I realized that this has been a childish fantasy. But

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Art & Fashion

‘You Know You Like It When’ Stewart Maclennan Tackles the Single-Take Dance Video

After taking on the fashion genre with his hesitant courtship short J’attends, director Stewart Maclennan decided to set his filmic skills to the challenge

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Live Action

Like A F%@k!ng Punk

Created for the FilmShop’s Kill Your Darlings event, Kyle Kelley’s comedy short Like A F%@k!ng Punk demonstrates that even when the world is

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Music Video

Corentin Kopp Goes ‘Fishing for Souls’ with The Human Elephant

Spurred on by the approaching 10th international Kino Kabaret of Brussels, Belgian director Corentin Kopp of Lallali set about conceiving an idea for his entry

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Music Video

Swim Deep: She Changes the Weather

Georgia Hudson transforms Birmingham band Swim Deep’s emotionally charged track into an expressive story of romantic devotion in She Changes the Weather.

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Live Action

Ambereileen

Motel rooms and haircuts from Jen Halski in intriguing short Ambereileen.

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Music Video

Oothèque: Portrait d’une Panthère

A young couple head out to an isolated cabin where their passion ignites in Kristof Brandl’s moody promo for Oothèque’s Portrait d’une

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