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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.

Live Action, Podcasts

DN267: Payload – Stuart Willis

Stuart Willis’ ridiculously ambitious graduation short Payload, sets relatable characters in a believable future to deliver a compelling story about hard

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Live Action

Marie et Fred

Earlier this year Nicolas Dedecker and Arnaud Petit aka TheDeck&Lenitch took us behind the closed doors of FRED et marie’s abusive relationship for

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Asides, Music Video

Friendly Fires: Why Dont You Answer?

A man spends a restless night plagued by the presence of a woman who remains elusively out of his reach in Fred Rowson 'Why Dont You Answer?' music video.

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Blacksmif: And The Sun Rose Out

Flowers, ice and macro cinematography combine to form beautiful abstract shapes in Robert Hackett’s experimental promo for Blacksmif’s And The Sun

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Animation, Live Action

Dark Vessel

If you’re under the assumption that robots can’t bleed then you’re sorely mistaken as Rocky Curby demonstrates in Dark Vessel, his animated

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Music Video

Skrillex: Breakn' a Sweat

If you were looking for a musician to soundtrack the tale of mechanical piranha baiting mutants from another dimension who pop over to our reality for a spot

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Live Action

Four Stories

So a few months back Intel, W Hotels and Roman Coppola launched Four Stories, a screenwriting competition in which four winning scripts would be selected and

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Podcasts

DN266: Clouds – Jonathan Minard & James George

Jonathan Minard and James George’s infinite conversation Clouds is a computational documentary which explores the beauty of code through the new

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Animation

Little Bird

From Yorkshire’s half man half papier mache animator Sebaldo comes Little Bird, a touching tale of a chick and his mum. For some reason the tone of

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Documentary

Love Letter to Plywood

Plywood is a sandwich, a delicious wood sandwich After watching Van Neistat’s documentary Love Letter to Plywood, I’ve found myself head over heels

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Art & Fashion

You Ruined It

Adult Swim commission Michael Langan to create a not so happy run on the beach for Off the Air.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN265: The Gift – Griff

Griff’s melancholic short The Gift sees a childless couple’s life disrupted by an unexpected arrival. Griff joins us this week to discuss the

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