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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

Where Did The Night Go

In his tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, Steffen K uses abstract graphics to animate the early hours restlessness of track Where Did The Night Go.

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Animation, Music Video

Primus: Lee Van Cleef

Don’t know how I let Chris Lenox Smith’s zombie cowboy vengeance animation for Primus’ Lee Van Cleef slip by, pure genius! Take a look at how

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Music Video

Matmos: Very Large Green Triangles

Ed Apodaca and Audrey Karleskind orchestrate an invasion of Very Large Green Triangles for Matmos.

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Live Action

Charity

“I think that you think that I’m a tourist!” Beginning life as an after hours directing exercise, Michael Sugrue’s dialogue piece Charity sees

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Music Video

Pirupa: Party Non Stop

UK director Emile Rafael switches the technical challenges of light painting for a far more sensual approach in Pirupa’s Party Non Stop video. The NSFW

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Live Action

About Claire

Director Tony Sebastian Ukpo cranks up the creep factor with the minimum amount of fuss in his skilfully delivered short About Claire.

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Music Video

Sebastien Schuller: Nightlife

The city may surround them, but the lonely souls in Emily Kai Bock’s Sebastien Schuller promo still have to make it through the Nightlife alone.

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Asides, Music Video

David Byrne & St Vincent: Who

David Byrne and St Vincent bust some stylish roadside moves in Martin de Thurah’s b&w promo for Who.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Father/Son – Bryan Reisberg

Screening as part of the London Film Festival’s Blood is Thicker than Water shorts programme, Bryan Reisberg’s Father/Son portrays a disquieting

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Ta-ku: Diamond Mouth

Music videos are rarely as out there as BRTHR’s Alex Lee & Kyle Wightman’s glitchy promo for Ta-ku’s Diamond Mouth in which: A young

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Animation

Havana Heat

Good Books switch the discombobulating prose of their Metamorphosis spot for a steamy animated tryst with mcbess and Simon in the Havana Heat.

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Documentary

Adrift

Exacerbated both by modernization so unchecked it has transformed the Thai central basin into a concrete jungle of industrial zones, housing estates and

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