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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

Man + Clothes

Clothes may make the man, but as You Ness quickly demonstrate in Man + Clothes they can also make the man bad.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN276: This is Vanity – Oliver Goodrum

We’ve been keen to get director Oliver Goodrum on DN ever since his dark music video Consequence of the Kill landed online to much applause. We’re glad we

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Art & Fashion, Asides

This Way Up

Directors Spike Morris and Oscar Hudson deliver a multi-location dance piece featuring a teleporting cardboard box for Random Acts short 'This Way Up'.

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Animation

V-Day 2013 | …What it Takes to Decide

If Rube Goldberg was to express his love on this day of romance it might look something like Henning M. Lederer’s V-Day 2013 animation. For those of you

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Love is in the Air

Love is quite literally in the air in Wriggles & Robins’ breath projected romance short.

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Music Video

Tkacz: Śnienie

Last year we ventured into the woods with Czlowiek Kamera for his reality bending Call Me in the Afternoon promo, now in Śnienie for Kraków musician Tkacz,

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Animation, Asides

The Staves: Winter Trees

Aardman directors Karni&Saul build an enchanting forest setting inhabited by cute hybrid creatures for The Staves’ in animated music video 'Winter Trees'.

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Art & Fashion

The Path

Take a dizzying dream walk into the trees illuminated by light with Kurtis Hough in The Path

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Art & Fashion

WOMB

Bruno Levy’s pulsating film SOMA was one of our favourite experimental pieces last year, so we’re pleased to see him return with a combination of

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Animation, Asides

The Future

Spoiler Alert – Alex Goddard tells you everything you need to know about 'The Future' in his playful stripped down animation.

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Animation

Gray Keys

We saw artist Carlo Vega’s ability to command attention with minimalistic visuals in his Niggas In Poorest promo last year. In Gray Keys he does it

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Music Video

Rhye: Open (Take 2)

Jennifer Nies gaves us her steamy version last year but now Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen steps forward with a new take on Rhye’s Open. I say new, but the promo

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