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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.

Music Video

Postiljonen: Supreme

Filmed over a single weekend in Half Moon Bay with a RED Epic kitted out with Panavision lenses from the 1960s; Ty Olson’s promo for Swedish trio

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Never Seen Burnham

Wanting to create a film about a place he’d never been to, Richard Broomhall collaborated with painter Anthony Garratt in his Bristol studio to record

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Music Video

Ghost and Gale: Take Me To The Fire

Vengeance takes a surprising turn in Jesse Fleece’s Take me to the Fire music video for Ghost and Gale.

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Live Action

BETA

Sitting somewhere between Chocky and Invasion of the Body Snatchers Australia based filmmaker Nima Nabili Rad’s short BETA sees a trouble young boy

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Music Video

White Blush: Juice Of My Heart

You can only push the geeky waitress so far before she cracks and extracts bloody revenge. The bullies get a satisfying comeuppance in Carol Rhyu’s Juice

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Animation, Music Video

Pinkunoizu: I Chi

Ewan Jones Morris animates a series of striking collages to the idiosyncratic sounds of Pinkunoizu’s I Chi.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Playing with Fire

First year Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema animation student Alexandra Levasseur employs a distinctive line style and colour palette in her experimental short

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Asides, Music Video

Mark Stoermer: Weary Soul

Mark Stoermer seeks solace for his Weary Soul from a dry cleaning spirit guide in Robert Schober’s melancholic music video.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Tavistock 516

Alberto Mielgo cranks up the (NSFW) style in his “short about an important subject”, Tavistock 516.

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Music Video

Jimpster: Roller Girl

If you’ve ever suffered days in the office which feeling like a never ending loop of tasks, then you’ll be able to relate to Abbie Stephens’

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Music Video

Misty’s Big Adventure: Aggression

Mark Locke shows that heading out for a late night pizza can get a lot more eventful than you may have imagined in Aggression for Misty’s Big Adventure.

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Music Video

Vandaveer: Pretty Polly

  In the vein of many traditional folk tunes, the lyrics of murder ballad Pretty Polly travel a clear narrative road, which may have tempted many a

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