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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.

Music Video

Half Moon Run: Call Me in the Afternoon

Clever masking effects create a wondrous wood where the laws of physics and causality no longer apply in Czlowiek Kamera’s Call Me in the Afternoon promo

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Asides, Live Action

Pockets

Part of Channel 4’s Random Acts series, the ever creative DANIELS bring us what has to be the closest quarters fight scene ever made in Pockets.

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Music Video

Max & Laura Braun: Blindness

For Max & Laura Braun’s break-up track Blindness, director Michael Fragstein worked closely with Laura Braun to find an approach which would reflect

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Animation

A Fox Tale

Two brothers go toe to toe over a foxy female in the stunning Supinfocom short from Thomas Bozovic, Alexandre Cazals, Julien Legay and Chao Ma, A Fox Tale.

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Animation

Circle Line

Things get surreal on the tube in Marcus Armitage’s black & white animation Circle Line

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Animation

Claycats Hitman Absolution

Our favourite stop motion animator of cat action sequences Lee Hardcastle, returns in a blaze of gun fire with his version of the attack of The Saints trailer

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN264: Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story – Jeff Broadway & Robert Bralver

The collection of musicians known as Morphine held a special place in many fans and fellow muscians’ hearts as one of the most original, talented bands

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Live Action

Helpless

We all know we should take some time out to learn first aid skills but very few of us ever do. Whereas Fortnight Lingerie tried to entice participation by

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Documentary

Millimeter

The alien stars of the insect world get ready for their extreme close ups in Thomas Blanchard’s Millimeter.

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Art & Fashion

20 Hz

From now on whenever I hear the term ‘sound sculpture’ the resulting work will be judged in the shadow of Semiconductor duo Ruth Jarman and Joe

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Music Video

Reptar: Houseboat Babies

A digital BEAR, a resurrecting fish, a mysterious woodland grasshopper and now a pack of demonic hounds, I’m getting the distinct feeling that Carlos

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Art & Fashion

Welcome Stranger

Riley Blakeway steps aboard the Thrills x Wrangler collaboration with a fashion short presented as beautifully realised mood piece in Welcome Stranger.

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