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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.

Documentary, Podcasts

DN278: Grasp the Nettle – Dean Puckett

For his latest feature documentary Grasp the Nettle, director Dean Puckett gave up his normal life to live with activists in the Kew Bridge echo village and

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Asides, Music Video

David Bowie: The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Whilst we were more perplexed than impressed by the first promo to arrive from David Bowie’s forthcoming album The Next Day, Floria Sigismondi has

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Animation, Music Video

Shugo Tokumaru: Katachi

Kijek/Adamski (Katarzyna Kijek & Przemysław Adamski) have directed a ridiculously playful stop motion promo for Shugo Tokumaru’s Katachi comprising

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Music Video

Young Dreams: First Days of Something

Kristoffer Borgli’s promos are becoming increasingly narrative in nature (Whateverest, Real Life Exp.) with the featured tracks sinking to background

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Art & Fashion

MEDI Title Sequence

David-Jan Bronsgeest’s forthcoming short MEDI tells the story of a woman losing herself in her limitless imagination. Aware that a large portion of the

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Miranda Wolf

I have to admit that I’m more than a little addicted to the strange worlds which are the result of the collaboration between filmmaker Czlowiek Kamera

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Animation

The Black Dog Through the Kaleidoscope

If you ever wondered what UK animator Stephen Irwin’s The Black Dog’s Progress would look like viewed through an acid fuelled haze, you can get some of

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Art & Fashion

River Island x Georgia Hardinge – Design Forum

Commissioned by River Island for their collaboration with Georgia Hardinge, the latest to fall under the Design Forum moniker, London director Alex Turvey

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Music Video

Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E: Need U (100%)

A man is plagued by Duke Dumont’s addictive beats emanating from his one man party machine in Need U (100%) from director Ian Robertson.

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Animation

Lego Dance

Even when rendered in Lego form by Annette Jung of Berlin animation studio Talking Animals, Michael Jackson still busts all the best moves.

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Live Action

What My Brother Bob did to me…

To showcase their production, CGI and grading talents, boutique creative production house My Brother Bob humorously demonstrate the pitfalls of having family

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Music Video

The Last Royals: Crystal Vases

  A gang of ladies old enough to know better rip things up on the streets of Brooklyn in Michael Lawrence’s new promo for The Last Royals’

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