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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

The Animation Workshop Trailer Project

The fruits from The Animation Workshop's trailer project do a brilliant job of maintaining the spirit of the originals whilst imaginatively restaging them

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Animation, Asides

A Short History of the GIF

Sean Pecknold takes us through a claymation history of the humble GIF for the Moving the Still festival in celebration of the format’s 25th birthday.

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Animation

Glued

Bezalel Academy of Art students Alon Tako, Guy Elnathan, Daniel Lichter and Sivan Kotek combine animation forces to create Glued, the story of a mother trying

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Animation

The Existential Adventures of Tim Maia

Narrated by Devendra Banhart, interactive agency SuperHeroes, production agency ShopAround and record label Luakabop set out the hedonistic life and death of

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Animation

The Rest is Science

In our interview earlier today British animator Adam Wells mentioned that the cube headed folk from Brave New Old would be end their adventures in The Rest is

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Asides, Music Video

Fur Voice: All That

Pablo Maestres applies some gravity defying unreality to the brutal beats of Fur Voice in the All That promo.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN269: Brave New Old – Adam Wells

Adam Wells’ animation Brave New Old breaks free from established narrative conventions by playing out its scenes within the confines of a rotating cube.

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Animation

Pale Blue Dot

Back in March we saw what Kevin McDowell did with Carl Sagan’s words about this mote of dust we all inhabit. Now East London digital production studio ORDER

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Primary Expansion

Johan Rijpma’s experimental filmmaking expands to encompass the complex structures of coloured dots in 'Primary Expansion'.

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Podcasts

DN268: Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told – Kurtis Hough

Kurtis Hough’s approach to filmmaking may best be described as the ‘patient experimental cinema of nature’. He makes his third appearance on

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Music Video

Brett Winterford: Hey Make Believer

We figured that after hearing us talk to Aussie director Stu Willis about his epic sci-fi short Payload you’d be eager to see more of his work. Thought

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Art & Fashion, Asides

W A R

Taking words from Leonard Cohen and music from Nine Inch Nails, madeinhollywoodusa director Jeff Consiglio demands we get back to the fight in 'W A R'.

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