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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, Documentary, Podcasts

DN281: Feeder & Londoners – Joseph Ernst

Not one to select projects due to their ease of execution, director Joseph Ernst hit the streets of London with a 100 year old hand cranked 35mm camera for

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Music Video

Passion Pit: Cry Like A Ghost

Hard to believe given the impressive quality of their previous work, but that same named, two-headed directing machine DANIELS have managed to best themselves

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Art & Fashion

Joke

Still-life comedy props come to life in an exploration of what’s funny. Maybe not what’s “funny, ha ha'”, but more of what’s

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Animation

Hug

No matter the species, sometimes you just need a Hug as Saki Iyori demonstrates in this gorgeously heart warming animation.

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Documentary

94 Elements: Osmium – Fingerprints

Dutch filmmaker Helmie Stil discusses her exploration of crime and punishment through fingerprints in her '94 Elements' documentary short 'Osmium'.

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Animation

Motorville

Back in 2010 Patrick Jean blew us away with Pixels, his 8 bit invasion of New York, which he kindly let us share at our Reading & Leeds festival screenings

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Asides, Music Video

KOAN Sound: 80s Fitness

Tim Hendrix's fatality strewn '80s Fitness' promo for KOAN Sound provides all the incentive you need to avoid exercise and remain spandex free.

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Art & Fashion

Av Sketch // Polyvinylidene Chloride Ver I.I

Bruno Levy animates flatbed scans of saran wrap in his latest experimental piece Av Sketch // Polyvinylidene Chloride Ver I.I. “This video was created by

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Music Video

Sigur Rós: Brennisteinn

After the visual feasts of Solipsist and Bjӧrk’s Mutual Core we’ve become accustom to Andrew Huang filling our world with vivid spectrums of

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Documentary

Trans-mongolian: A Long Train Journey

Rubén Sánchez and Cristina Fernandez of Factoria provide window seats on the nine day journey from Beijing (China) to Ulaanbataar (Mongolia capital) then to

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Animation, Music Video

Alphabets Heaven: Birthday

Renata Gąsiorowska’s TVPaint animated, sword wielding, morphing animals provide the perfect dreamlike accompaniment for the organic sounds of Alphabets

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Animation

30 Things at 30

Turning ageing concerns into creativity, Fabricio Lima’s 30 Things at 30 catalogues the traits which make him the person he is. “Last year, on 5th

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