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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

BLACK&BLUE

Is it bad luck? Is it fate? Or just stupid? A collection of heedless folks succumb to painful mishaps in Ruud Bakker’s graduation animation

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Running Away Into You

Beginning as a an art school assignment but later developing a life of its own, experimental film Running Away Into You from Israeli graphic designers Benjamin

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Live Action

Truant

Sometimes, it’s better for all concerned if the guy doesn’t get the girl in the end, as demonstrated in Michael Duignan’s short about bunking

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Art & Fashion

Imagined Beauty

Sophie Gateau puts together an impressive RGB dance trail sequence for her TED Global 2013 title sequence.

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Live Action

Heile Gänsje (teaser)

I seem to recall describing Matt Lambert’s WAR promo as a somewhat visceral experience? Pah, what did I know! Making his earlier Fickmaschinen look

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Live Action

Closing Time

Set amongst the rainy streets of Amsterdam, Brian De Vore’s Closing Time is an intimate tale of standing on the threshold of an unrequited love which may

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Music Video

The Cats are on the Rise & They Want Your Eyes in Roadgeek’s ‘Towards the Sun’

I’d had an idea to do something with cats as they seem to be the strangest creatures; constantly surrounded by humans but seemingly disinterested in them. I

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Music Video

A Woman Battles Through Time in Anthony Furlong & DeLooze’s Triple Narrative Promo ‘Lost Army’

After finding success with Finally his first music promo commissioned through Radar, New York director Anthony Furlong returned to the online network for Lost

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Art & Fashion, Music Video, Podcasts

DN289: Paralyze – Anders Malmberg

In Paralyze, the first music video to come from Jannis Noya Makrigiannis’ musical project Choir of Young Believers, Danish director Anders Malmberg entrances

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Music Video

ÍRiS: Swiftly Siren

In Peter Szewczyk’s Swiftly Siren promo for ÍRiS, a woman flees from the man attempting to kill her, but is he really the most deadly presence on the

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Live Action

Seule

Seule is a lone woman: She lives alone, works alone, talks alone, plays alone, takes breakfast alone, eats alone, takes dinner alone, sleeps alone, dreams

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Live Action

Double Bubble

A sexy photoshoot takes a surprising turn in Dustin Bowser’s comedy short Double Bubble.

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