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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.

Asides, Music Video

Metronomy: She Wants

Metronomy’s videos sure have come a long way from when they first started!

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Documentary

A Magazine Is Born

If you’ve never read Little White Lies, watch this short and I’ll guarantee you’ll want to! It’s a must for film fans with a love of

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Turning

Featuring animation and live action experimental short 'Turning' from Karni&Saul, feels like Gondry and Jonze mixed with Burton and a little LSD.

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Music Video

CocoRoise – Lemonade

I’ve loved Sub Pop records ever since I first heard Nirvana’s Bleach back all those years ago and they still manage to produce challenging exciting

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Live Action

Somewhere

When your dad’s a world famous director, your cousin’s Nicolas Cage and you’ve starred in The Godfather movies, it’s not surprising

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Live Action

Monsters

Making a short film featuring eye-catching visual effects seems to be the way to get yourself noticed in recent years. South African Neill Blomkamp was carving

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Music Video

Mums of Death

Time to get funky, 8-bit graphic funky with the Mums of Death.

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Animation, Live Action, Music Video

Future Shorts Best of 2010

A special look back on the year that was 2010 from the Future Shorts YouTube Channel, featuring some of their favorite shorts including… Temper Trap

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Live Action

Ghost

With superb cinematography and sound design, Tobias Gundorff Boesen’s short Ghost has a highly polished, professional feel to it, whilst also managing

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Live Action

3 Minutes

I honestly wasn’t expecting that!

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Art & Fashion

Cruzada

Yellow, Red, Blue and Green collide armed with instruments in Cinthia Marcelle’s Cruzada, a piece designed to loop in an installation, but equally

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Animation, Art & Fashion

The Rite of Youth

It’s pretty hard to describe Sasha Belyaev’s The Rite of Youth; Small interstellar vessel on a psychedelic journey through space and time,

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