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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

Destiny

In their Bellecour graduation film Fabien Weibel, Sandrine Wurster, Victor Debatisse and Manuel Alligné show that sometimes Destiny can be beaten if

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Live Action

Monster Flu

In Brian Wiebe’s short Monster Flu, reclusive germaphobe Vincent is forced to leave his house in search for his one and only friend, a pet monster called

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Animation, Documentary

Bitcoin Explained

If like me you miss the informative days when Hungry Beast parsed the news, motion designer Duncan Elms lets us make like it’s 2011 by teaming up with

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Music Video

Jack Parow: Afrikaans is Dood

Least you think South Africa’s Afrikaans rap scene comprises but a single freaky group, Jack Parow dispels that myth whilst kicking arse to protect the

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Documentary

Take My Picture

Beginning life as an observational piece about the phenomenon of fashion bloggers and street style stars, Dasha Zhukova and Andinh Ha’s documentary Take

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Animation

Masks

Patrick Smith’s award winning animation Masks sees a small species consumed by masked men until a lone scientist tips the balance.

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Animation

Hong Kong Station

Treehouse Studio’s animation provide a guided tour of four decades of Hong Kong expressed as four levels of a metro station in Hong Kong Station. You can

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Paperworks: Terror.exe

Eduardo H Obieta busts out the glitchy goodness for Paperworks’ Terror.exe promo.

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Art & Fashion

The Life Cycle of a Good Idea

Stephen Reedy condenses the pain, suffering and dedication that takes place over The Life Cycle of a Good Idea into a brutal stop motion struggle. And if you

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Animation

Windows

In his black and white animation Windows, Conor Whelan all too briefly captures “that weird feeling of happy loneliness you get when travelling

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Music Video

Cebra: Cold Ice

I couldn’t for the life of me tell you exactly what’s occurring in the woods in Moritz Reichartz’s Cold Ice promo for German band Cebra, but

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Liars: The Exact Color of Doubt

So a few months back we sat down with Jonathan Minard & James George to discuss their infinite conversation computational documentary Clouds and the

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