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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

Sandy

Inspired by his Summer holidays at the beach, Joseph Mann’s nostalgic, but entirely fictional (and ever so slightly NSFW) short Sandy, casts us back to

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Documentary

A Man Who Delivers

Jamie Jessett deftly addresses the problem of creating a documentary in which the subject wishes to remain anonymous in his day in the life of a cocaine

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Live Action

Picnic

A landscape which was once a place of childhood tranquillity reveals the hidden scars left by war to a returning family in Gerardo Herrero Pereda’s

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Music Video

Thee Oh Sees: Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster

You start with one little murder and the next thing you know… Excellent piece of ‘wrong place, wrong time’ storytelling from John Strong for

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Documentary

Why don’t we do it in the Road?

An ordinary pedestrian crossing made extraordinary by a 10 minute photo shoot in the 
summer of 1969. Chris Purcell’s documentary, Why don’t we

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Live Action

Whisper

Billed as “The only award dedicated to rising young directors” the Young Director Award knows that filmmaking talent can be evident in the youngest

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Animation

The Boy and the Monster

Julia Zhuravleva presents the heart warming tale of a friendship formed over a common interest in her graduation short The Boy and the Monster.

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Documentary

Ctrl Alt Shift

In documentary Ctrl Alt Shift, Dean G. Moore and Simon Lane explore the origins of VJing and its surrounding culture, whilst also considering its place as a

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Documentary

Pussy People

“Bedrooms are for human people, not for pussy people” You best hit play before I spoil anymore lines from Andrew Lang’s (who also directed

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Music Video

Small Feet: Rivers

Trailing fire never looked half as beautiful, nor reverse slow motion as justified as it is in Oskar Wrangö’s running man a flame Rivers promo for Small

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Music Video

Misteur Valaire: Bellevue Avenue

A teenage boy’s (NSFW) sexual fantasies run away with him in Iouri Philippe Paillé’s Bellevue Avenue for Montréal’s Misteur Valaire.

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Art & Fashion

Using Dance to Defy the Laws of Physics in ‘Shunpo’

Shot over six days in 13 different locations 'Shunpo' from Steven Briand is a rhythmic short featuring some snappy editing and well-executed choreography.

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