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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

Dog Bite: Prettiest Pills

A few months ago we saw John Merizalde dip his toe into the world of music videos with The Beat Comes for Snowden, now he settles into that role with witchy

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Asides, Music Video

Samantha Crain: Never Going Back

I’m beginning to think that a large part of the filmmaking appeal for LAMAR+NIK stems from the physicality of their creative efforts; if they’re

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN277: Care – Amanda Boyle

Amanda Boyle’s temporally shifted love story Skirt was amongst our favourite work of the 2012. She joins us today to discuss new film Care, a short about

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Music Video

Chae Hawk: Remember This Night

How filmmaker Alex Amoling took up the reins for his solo directorial debut in Chae Hawk music video 'Remember This Night'.

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Music Video

Darwin Deez: You Can’t Be My Girl

Darwin Deez stalks his way through a series of stock footage, the women he loves always tantalisingly out of reach in Keith Schofield’s You Can’t

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Documentary

Planktonic Origins: Sea Urchins

Christian Sardet’s Sea Urchins entry into the Planktonic Origins features stunning deep sea images of this little thought about organism.

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Music Video

Carpenter Brut: Le Perv

They wanted to DANCE DANCE DANCE. But all they did was DIE DIE DIE. Silver Strain pay tribute to Lucio Fulci and legwarmers in their NSFW faux trailer for

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Asides, Live Action

Cool Unicorn Bruv

No matter what, someone’s always got to come and steal your thunder. In a break from warping reality for the likes of Graham Coxon and JJ Doom, Ninian

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Music Video

Love 2062

Romain Demongeot and electronic artists De Andria & Ghisal picture love at the end of world in Love 2062.

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Asides, Music Video

Phototaxis: Fire

Hagay Swisa and Kobie Flashman escape the cloying reality of the daily grind in music video 'Fire' for Tel Aviv Electro-Soul band Phototaxis.

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Art & Fashion

Hors d’oeuvre | Precious

Feast your eyes on Hors d’oeuvre and Precious, a sumptuous pair of meticulously designed shorts from Germany photographer and fashion filmmaker Monica

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Music Video

Villagers: Nothing Arrived

Alden Volney provides a front row seat to the unremarkable life of Terrence Bliss in his promo for Villagers’ Nothing Arrived.

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