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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.

Music Video

Buke and Gase: Houdini Crush

“Sometimes when listening to music, stories just appear, and that’s how this video came to be. While listening to Buke and Gase’s new record

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Music Video

Histibe: Elements

Inspired by the multiculturalism and the diversities of our modern cities, Italian filmmaker Maria Pia Fanigliulo hit the London streets of Tottenham for the

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Animation, Asides

Home

Lots of things can make a house a home, but RCA student Luiz Stockler has catalogued the funniest/weirdest ones in his short animation 'Home'.

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Music Video

Petula Clark: Cut Copy Me

Alexander Brown gives that old computer forgotten in the garage its musical moment of glory in Cut Copy Me for Petula Clark.

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Animation

Illustrated Aliens: Planets One & Two

Beginning as an exercise to get him back into the swing of drawing in his sketchbook again, Andy Martin began the Handymartian’s Illustrated Aliens

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Animation, Music Video

TNIW [That Night In Williamsburg]

Shot with Canon 5D mkII and post produced in After Effects, buildings come alive to the sounds of Near Deaf Experience’s remix of Nine Inch Nails’

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Music Video

Enemy Planes: We Want Blood

Tobias Stretch’s We Want Blood for Enemy Planes is a more contemplative piece than we’ve seen from the director in the past, shot on Coney Island

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Stop the Show – Frena el Espectaculo

Max Hattler’s Stop the Show – Frena el Espectaculo, created for Amnesty International in association with Contrapunto BBDO, uses kaleidoscopic

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Music Video

My Fellow Sponges: This Dream Song

Mia Mullarkey and Galway band My Fellow Sponges guide us through the bizarrest of house parties in their one take, reverse shot promo for This Dream Song.

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Animation

The Sixth Gun Trailer

I’m sucker for a well made fan animation; be it Wolverine Vs The Hand, The Walking Dead Opening Titles or Evil Dead: An Animated Tribute. However, whilst

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Animation

Vincenzo Lodigiani’s Logo Shorts II

As regular readers may have noticed once, twice or thrice before, I’m a real sucker for Vincenzo Lodigiani’s short blasts of motion graphic

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Live Action

Hollow

A couple years old now but none the less powerful, Rob Sorrenti’s 20 minute short Hollow tells the harrowing tale of heroin addicts Alice and Marcus, and

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