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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.

Documentary

The Spokesman

Dean Saffron has found someone who loves bikes even more than we do here at DN in his short documentary The Spokesman.

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Animation, Music Video

Lou Marco: Don’t Care

Directing duo Jubar & Baudry bring the animated tritone style to their promo for Lou Marco’s Don’t Care.

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Art & Fashion

Broken

Clothes and tattoos share centre stage in Fulvio Maiani’s RED Epic shot (& definitely NSFW) fashion film Broken.

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Live Action

Pim&June Fortune

Berlin director Moritz Hüttner takes ‘falling in love’ literally in his cute and quirky short Pim&June Fortune.

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Live Action

Isle of Awe Land

I was already completely Inspired by Iceland but in his simply gorgeous ad spot, Abteen Bagheri hammers home that it’s truly the Isle of Awe Land. Now

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Animation, Music Video

Discodeine: Aydin

French collective Pleix throw a killer party where dancing till you drop isn’t optional in their bubblegum tinged CGI promo for Discodeine’s Aydin

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Analogue Visual Effects & Japanese Kuroko Combine in Raoul Paulet’s Surreal Hugo & The Prismatics Promo ‘Le Mystère’

We’ve long been fans of the experimental side of filmmaking here on DN and the possibilities which lay before directors who are willing to discover and

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Animation

Obsolete

An unhappy robot sees a way out of his monotonous life cycle of drudgery in Smoking Robot’s (Lewis Gray & Esra Guldal) animated short, Obsolete.

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Music Video

Austra: Home

Those fine That Go fellas sit Toronto’s Austra down for a beautifully direct and all the more enthralling for it promo for Home, the first track from

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Music Video

Emika: She Beats

Berlin-based director Matt Lambert puts in another welcome appearance on DN with She Beats, which sees Emika fall into a steamy (NSFW) and very pink

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Animation

Origami

A fantastical world of possibilities opens up for a young boy once he learns to persevere in CG graduation short Origami from ESMA students Hugo

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Art & Fashion

Piano Works 13

Disperate dance styles and a motion design calligraphic language elegantly combine with Polerik Rouviere’s simple piano score in Julien Martorell’s

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