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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

Jazz That Nobody Asked For

If you’ve ever suffered from an earworm you’ll be able to sympathise with the auditorily hounded star of Rune and Esben Fisker’s animated ode

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Animation

Fall

Curiosity becomes the down fall of a natural world with the discovery of an unexpected object in Andrew Robinson’s stop motion animation Fall.

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Music Video

Futurebirds: Virginia Slims

Director Takashi Doscher and Athens, Georgia country-rock band Futurebirds transport us back to the days when it felt like we had nothing but endless time to

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Art & Fashion

Happy Life

Cut to the soothing strings of Max Richter & Dinah Washington’s This Bitter Earth, Mariusz Warsinski’s contemplative video essay Happy Life,

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Music Video

Diplo: Butter’s Theme

Reuben Dangoor and Gabriel Thomas Ayache multiply the booty shake by the power of YO in the seizure inducing Butter’s Theme for Diplo.

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Dry

In Nic Wassell’s experimental short Dry, a woman revisits the places of her past armed with a polaroid camera in the hope of capturing the essence of

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Music Video

Blaudzun: Elephants

We’ve previously seen Mirka Duijn beautifully set the battle between love and obligation to the sounds of Bart Constant in Do Better. Now, in Elephants

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Live Action

Milk Run

The contents of Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase gets put to good use in Josh Soskin’s Milk Run.

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Animation

575 Wandsworth Road

A life-long 20 year project of former owner Khadambi Asalanche that began as a practical exercise to conceal a damp patch, 575 Wandsworth Road is a

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Documentary

The Film before The Film

Whether you love their artistry or can’t wait for them to get out of your way, you’ve probably seen hundreds of opening title sequences through the

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Live Action

Everyday

In Everyday Stockholm director Gustav Johansson provides some compelling answers to the question; what would you do if you had an extra day in the week?

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN279: The Great Hip Hop Hoax – Jeanie Finlay

One of the few directors we’d trust to guide us through the web of lies at the centre of The Great Hip Hop Hoax documentary is our dearest of filmmaking

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