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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.

Art & Fashion, Asides

DRIP

Monika Delgado and Mickey Todiwala fill our minds full of colourful visual wonderment with alien atmosphere, kaleidoscopic short 'DRIP'.

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Animation

How Snjezhi Tjelovek Found His Ancestors

“Made ten years ago as a graduation project on the Design Academy in Eindhoven, The Netherlands,” Job, Joris & Marieke’s How Snjezhi Tjelovek

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Live Action

Receive Bacon

It’s always a good time for bacon, except perhaps when things get steamy in bathroom as James M. Johnston illustrates in his comedic (and slightly NSFW)

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Live Action

The Ascent

Launching the “One year. Seven pieces of Cinema” project to be released by director Ben Garchar through his NebCinematics Vimeo Channel, The Ascent tells

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Art & Fashion

Tuning Love

Although some (okay me!) prematurely declared Diego Agulló and Agata Siniarska’s Cinemagraph series Those Three Little Words complete last year with the

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Animation

Mundus Novus

A monkey sets sail and finds a companion in Luca Dipierro’s short animation Mundus Novus, originally commissioned for Francesco Dillon and Emanuele

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Blind Digital Citizen: War | Enfant Flamme

French filmaker Chris Dias’ collaboration with Blind Digital Citizen spans “the edge of space and time” in War and “the surface of a biological

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Music Video

Cloud Boat: Youthern

Applying the clean simplicity of framing and environment that we’ve seen across the Man + series of experimental shorts, You Ness invites us to

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Live Action

Rudie Can’t Fail…If You Give a Helping Hand

I like to think that I’ve put in a fair amount of miles when it comes to time spent watching short films and generally submerging myself in the

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Art & Fashion

One Fell Swoop: AW13 – Self Deflect

A model falls prey to the transfixing hold of infinite recursion in Amelia Phillips’ film for One Fell Swoop’s Autumn/Winter collection, Self

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN284: A Picture of the Three of Us – Jared Varava

When D.C. band These United States set out on their six week tour that would see them play 33 shows in 33

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Animation, Documentary

The History of Typography

291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. Ben Barrett-Forrest educates and entertains in his impressive paper-letter animation The History of

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