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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

Valgeir Sigurðsson: Between Monuments

Thomas Pons uncovers the beauty to be found on a building site in his poetic animation for Valgeir Sigurðsson’s Between Monuments.

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Art & Fashion

Odditory

I’m pretty sure I’d have done 100% better at university if all my lectures had run a little more like Monica Menez’s titillating fashion film

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Music Video

Pixies: Bagboy

“When we were first approached by the Pixies it was really a shock to us. They had apparently seen our work and wanted us and just us to do the video.”

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Live Action

Kickstart Rob Brown’s Debut Feature ‘Sixteen’

Help talented UK Director Rob Brown take his feature debut Sixteen through post-production and into film festivals.

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Music Video

Husbands: You, Me, Cellphones

You may have noticed that I’ve got a bit of a soft spot when it comes to synchronised swimming (Water Lilies, Men Who Swim, Melt) so Cauboyz’s You,

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Animation, Podcasts

DN292: Rabbit and Deer – Péter Vácz

Péter Vácz’s short Rabbit and Deer masterfully mixes simple hand-drawn animation with rich stop motion filmmaking to tell the story of a friendship put at

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Animation

Sales Gosses !

Anyone with children will be able to appreciate the all too accurate animated depiction of the ‘joys’ of parenthood depicted in Sales Gosses from

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Art & Fashion

Ecstasy

We saw the results of John Malkovich’s trip to hell with Sandro Miller a couple years back in the award winning Butterflies; this time round the

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Art & Fashion

Muñeca

A woman battles dark external & internal forces in Sergio Herencias’ grim tale of desire, fear and manipulation Muñeca. “The narrative is based

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Live Action

Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood

If the idea of watching a film largely comprised of static compositions of wooden pieces sharing their inner anxieties through a voiceover narration

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Live Action

Boyfriend in a Coma | This Movie Is Fixed

Merlin Bronques continues his quest for true love amongst absinth drinking circus performers in Barcelona and Coachella festival goers in Boyfriend in a Coma

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Live Action

LUV U

Ben Garchar continues the ‘One year. Seven pieces of Cinema’ project he kicked off with the release of The Ascent in May with LUV U, the

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