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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, Art & Fashion

18F44

Generated in real-time in with open source programming language Processing, Raven Kwok’s 18F44 is a transfixing experiment of growth, mutation,

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Animation, Music Video

Scars

Kristof Luyckx shifts his animated focus from preening peacocks to hard rocking apes (who sound rather a lot like Black Spires) in jam session Scars.

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Animation

Shave it

With his natural habitat under threat, a monkey ascends to power and decides to make a change in simian animation Shave it from Jorge Tereso and Fernando

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Music Video

Efterklang: The Ghost

Bound together by their own tragic passings and a mysterious pendent, Victor Carrey gathers a collection of the recently deceased in The Ghost for Efterklang.

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Music Video

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Sacrilege

Lily Cole provokes desire and ire in the residents of a small town in Megaforce’s Memento-esque promo for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Sacrilege

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Documentary

‘Merica

Ken Quemuel travelled 600 miles across the US and saw…some pretty dope shit. Here’s hoping ‘Merica becomes the template for all tourist

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Music Video

Crystal Fighters: Separator

Elliott Sellers cooks up a kaleidoscope of trippy visuals for the Crystal Fighters’ Separator promo.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Anne Gorke: T W O // The Tale of the Bloody Marys

Sandra Hüller and Emily Cox see their charmed existence disrupted by the arrival of Paul Wolff-Plottegg in Michael Venus’ Dogtooth-esque fashion film T

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Animation

30 Days of Animation

On the 1st of March I decided to try animating something everyday for 30 days. Perhaps it’s my inherent lazy nature, but I’m always impressed (and

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Animation, Music Video

Mr. Scruff: Be the Music

In his promo for Be the Music, Mr. Scruff once again demonstrates that his stripped down animation style never fails to entertain.

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Animation

Everything I Can See From Here

Made over a two year period in spare time with zero budget and a lot of help from friends, Sam Taylor and Bjorn Aschim’s animation Everything I Can See

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Animation

TimTom

Christel Pougeoise and Romain Segaud’s brilliantly inventive 2012 short TimTom sees its two leads fight against the odds to connect despite the

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