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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, Music Video

Aldo Aréchar: That Will be the Day

Composer Aldo Aréchar and motion graphics artist Matthew DiVito’s audio/visual collaboration That Will be the Day is a Cinema 4D and After Effects

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Animation, Music Video

Bonobo: Cirrus

I could happily watch Cyriak bend reality for hours on end, but the 3:22 he spends looping the 50s for Bonobo’s Cirrus will just have to do.

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Animation

Meatless Days

If you find your strength waining and you’re no long at the top of your game perhaps it’s because you’re living through the Meatless Days.

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Animation

Suzy’s Willy

Inspired by personal experience, Loic Espuche’s devastatingly cute animation Suzy’s Willy (Le Zizi à Suzy), sees recriminations fly after a game

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Music Video

Buvette: Airplane Friendship

Shot on a Red Epic in the hills of Switzerland, Simon Wannaz and Buvette combine talents for the strangest recording session you’ve ever seen in Airplane

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN273: Drained – Nick Peterson & Jon Heder

Writer/director Nick Peterson and producer Jon Heder join us this week with their experimental, pixilation based short Drained, which allegorically depicts how

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Music Video

Sillyboy: Coast to Coast

Stathis Mourdoukoutas of collaborative outfit the cOre, let’s us ride shotgun as Angie Hatzi travels Coast to Coast in his latest promo for Sillyboy.

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Music Video

Richard Hawley: Don’t Stare at the Sun

Daniel Wolfe and George Belfield resolutely maintain a forward gaze in Don’t Stare at the Sun for Richard Hawley.

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Animation, Music Video

Maladusted

Glad to see we didn’t have to wait too long for some new work from animator Adam Wells whose newest short breaks from the cube head aesthetic of Brave

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Music Video

Family Band: Moonbeams

A couple take a break from being dead to live and love together in Sam Macon’s charming Moonbeams promo for Family Band.

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Art & Fashion

Le Spam Light

Fall into the dream haze of Julien Lauzon’s Le Spam Light, a place where anything can happen…

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Music Video

Orax: Rockers

Laila Sonsino and Rino Stefano Tagliafierro take several wide steps towards strange in their (slightly NSFW) promo for Orax’s Rockers.

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