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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

Han Kjøbenhavn SS13

Conceived with Han Kjøbenhavn for the SS13 Collection, director Casper Balslev portrays a bizarre world of rivalry played out in underground furry fighting

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Animation, Music Video

Travis Barker & Yelawolf: Funky Shit

Devin Flynn of Y’All So Stupid dusts off his old exercise book for an animated alien hip hop adventure in Travis Barker & Yelawolf’s Funky

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Animation, Podcasts

DN280: Cabbit – Soogie

Hand drawn frame by frame in a cross hatch style with sharpies, Cabbit from Soogie is a delightful animated passion project, which attracted a global team of

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Music Video

Dillon Francis: Bootleg Fireworks

Directorial duo MENZ and Dillon Francis crank the effects up to 11 in their fantastically nuts promo for Bootleg Fireworks.

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Music Video

Busdriver: Me-Time

If you’re birthday party’s going to get trashed by a malfunctioning robot, then I’m saying one which spits the superior flows of Busdriver is

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Sync (A Re-Score)

University student Benedict Gordon explores the use of 'mechanisms' in music in his dissertation re-scoring of Max Hattler's 'Sync'.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Toca Me 2013

We’re big fans of the impressive festival openings which have come to heralded events such as Offf, but every now and then it’s nice to ramp down

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Art & Fashion, Asides

In Camera

Taking a ‘form fits function’ approach, Jason Pumo’s two-part experimental series In Camera, puts subterranean artist Mirial on the opposite

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Music Video

Margaret: Thank You Very Much

Margaret’s music falls pretty clearly outside of my wheelhouse of musical tastes so I was ready to bail pretty soon after hitting play on the Thank You

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Art & Fashion

Tearing Shadows Teaser

If you ever needed a reason to get yourself to Berlin, new projection sculpture Tearing Shadows from Robert Seidel, currently on display at the 401contemporary

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Animation

Black Books: Favorite Place

It took: 10 000 photos 1 km of thread 350 reels of thread 73 000 embroidery stitches 6 kg of scraps of fabric 100 needles and sewing pins to created Christophe

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Animation, Music Video

Melt Yourself Down: Fix My Life

Trip the light fantastic with Morgan Beringer’s intense visual onslaught for Melt Yourself Down’s Fix My Life. Warning: You’ll probably want

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