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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, Asides, Music Video

Wiretree: Get Up

As it’s less than a fortnight since I posted Eric Power’s Northern Bells music video, I figured I should go directly to the source to find out how

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Music Video

Raveyards: Together We Play

It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt…really hurt! Things get way out of hand in Cédric Blaisbois’ NSFW Together We Play promo for

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Music Video

A-Trak & Tommy Trash: Tuna Melt

Ryan Staake pulls off a mightily impressive Domino Rally upgrade in his Rube Goldbergesque promo for A-Trak & Tommy Trash’s Tuna Melt. Of course you

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Live Action

Mankind Seeks Life Among the Stars in Sci-Fi Short ‘Project Kronos’

Back in March of last year we sat down with director HaZ Dulull to discuss his feline vs canine conspiracy, battlefield short Fubar as it expanded into its

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Documentary

Watch the Gruelling Dedication of a Bolshoi Ballerina in Documentary ‘The Prodigy’

Well aware of the benefits to be found in the downtime which surrounds paying gigs after his experience shooting dialogue exercise piece Charity, director

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Music Video

Alex Amoling & Chae Hawk Reunite to Heal the Broken in ‘Chin Ups’

When you’re onto a good thing creatively it makes nothing but sense to see where you can take things next, which was part of the motivating factor that

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Music Video

Sound of Stereo: Origin (One on One)

If you’re going to cash in your chips, then you may as well be sure to make your mark on the way out. Tom Willems takes us through the final days of Kate

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Animation

Soul Searching

Remember kids, nothing good can come from talking to strangers or magicians, especially the creepy, soul stealing one at the centre of Hallie Wilson’s

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Music Video

Neon Neon: Hammer & Sickle

An Italy shaped steak bleeds, women bare their breasts and revolutions are plotted – and that’s just within the pre-promo tease. Rob Schroder

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Music Video

The Flaming Lips: You Lust

Directed by long time collaborators George Salisbury and Wayne Coyne through their production house Delo Creative, the NSFW You Lust promo for The Flaming Lips

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Animation, Art & Fashion

THIING

Waldemar Borth invites you to take a disquieting dive into the deep in experimental short THIING.

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Art & Fashion

Man + You Ness = ???

Combining words and simple visual motifs to belie audience expectations and perhaps challenge the assumptions many of us harbour, UK filmmaker You Ness created

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