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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.

Animation, Asides

Path of Blood – Demon at the Crossroads of Destiny

When a lone samurai sets his course towards the path of blood, unknown dangers and terror awaits. Will his great swordsmanship be enough to survive the

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Animation, Music Video

Apache

This animated video for Apache by Danger Beach plays out like a record on a turntable, the animation progressing with each revolution. It’s a stunning

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Animation, Music Video

The Heretics' Gate

Relax and drift away with the hypnotic short The Heretics’ Gate by Doug Foster. It’s like watching a pint of Guinness settle to the sounds of

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Zyklus I

Gather your strength, protect yourself in armour and ignite the bomb. Move into combat with yourself and grow from it. This experimental stop-motion film,

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Music Video

Playing the Villain

MarBelle introduced us to the work of Matt Devine of The Glue Society, back in December of 2009 with the explosive ping-pong short Metal on Metal: Bastard.

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Animation

A Kaffa

This Supinfocom Graduation Film, directed by Joan Baz, Lionel Caruana, Margaux Demont and Bastien Martin, is an animation so dark, it feels as if it has been

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Animation

Lumi

Lumi discovers his world for the first time. He looks up the sky and gets touched by the stars. Then, everything goes dark and suddenly appears GriGro, a

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Music Video

Open Your Eyes

Peter “the voice of Darth Maul” Serafinowicz does his best Rocky impression in the video for Alex Metric & Steve Angello – Open Your

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Live Action

Rubber

Rubber opens with a shot of a chair nestling in the wilderness of an unknown American desert, the following shots reveal more chairs spread randomly across a

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Music Video

Low Guns

7 seconds on a station platform, seen through the window of a high-speed train. https://youtu.be/DIArJjU8HjE

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Live Action

La Prochaine Fois (The Next Time)

Multi-screen goodness in this dreamy short from A76 Productions, think Groundhog Day re-imagined by the French, with Bill Murray replaced by a beautiful beach

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Live Action

Tune for Two

When you watch a lot of short films, you get used to kind of ‘speed watching’ and if a film hasn’t grabbed my attention quickly, I’ll

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