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Co-Founder & Managing Editor at Directors Notes, Rob's 20+ year obsession with short film has led him to develop a unique perspective on the medium. Driven by his curiosity and excitement for emerging filmmaking talent, he's motivated by sharing these exciting new voices with the world.

Documentary, Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Lyrical

The finalists of the lyrical category in the Vimeo awards take us on a breath-taking and often personal journey around and above planet Earth, with the

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Animation, Music Video

Relentless Drag

A lonely machine goes on a desperate journey in this conceptual narrative short film/music-video, created by four animation students studying at The Queensland

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Documentary

Clouds: beta

One for only the geekiest of geeks; Clouds: beta by Jonathan Minard and James George is an extraordinary computational documentary featuring hackers and media

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Asides, Music Video

Jay Z & Kanye West: No Church in the Wild

Romain Gavras follows up his frenzied music promo work for M.I.A. with this volatile video for Jay Z & Kanye West’s 'No Church in the Wild'.

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Animation, Asides

d’une rare crudité

Supinfocom students Jeremy Mougel, Emilien Davaud and Marion Szymczak present the unusual story of a blossoming field with an equally unusual style.

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Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Motion Graphics Finalists

The infamous American civil war speech of Abraham Lincoln, the adventures of the world’s most famous fictitious Belgian reporter, the art of the title

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Animation, Documentary

I Dreamt of Flying

Inspired by his grandfather – an RAF tail-gunner 1943-44, – I Dreamt of Flying is a a mixed media documentary written, drawn, animated and directed

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Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Experimental Finalists

Described as video that experiments with new ideas and/or techniques, often characterized by the absence of a linear narrative, the Vimeo awards experimental

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Asides, Music Video

Advanced Base: Summer Music

Writer/Director Philip Hodges brings some puppetry magic to the music promo for Advance Base track Summer Music.

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Film Festival, Music Video

Vimeo Festival 2012: Music Video Finalists

The music video category is probably one of the most popular categories in the Vimeo festival and a form of filmmaking that we’ve noticed seems to go

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Live Action

Wrong Cops

Quentin Dupieux, the director that bought us 2011’s oddest film – Rubber, returns with a brief slice of comedy weirdness – Wrong Cops.

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Live Action

Vessel

Los Angeles based filmmaker Clark Baker presents impressive short Vessel, a film inspired by the likes of Alien, The Thing and Close Encounters of the Third

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