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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

Pizza Verdi

Gary Nadeau’s award winning short Pizza Verdi deftly plays with audience preconceptions across it’s exquisitely captured black & white frames.

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Music Video

Mika: Origin of Love

Cristian Jimenez perfectly captures the all absorbing nature of togetherness and the desperation caused by separation in his (mildly NSFW) promo collaboration

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Asides, Music Video

JJ Doom: Guv'nor

Ninian Doff shifts his brain twisting effects talents from indie to hip-hop in the Guv’nor promo for JJ Doom.

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Music Video

A Winged Victory For The Sullen: Requiem For The Static King Part One

Christopher Hewitt finds fragile beauty amongst the imprisoned in his captivating video for A Winged Victory For The Sullen’s Requiem For The Static King

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN261: Ouroboros – karl&tynan

If you want to make a splash for your new directing partnership, then putting out a film which seamlessly features 80 graduate fashion designs over an 8:30

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Asides, Live Action

A Zombie Love Story

Like Sunday / Paper’s Rest before it, James Domro’s A Zombie Love Story adds weight to the belief that even the undead yearn for that special someone

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Live Action

Darkness Follows

A chance meeting between two strangers turns from light to dark in CJ Johnson’s short Darkness Follows.

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Asides, Music Video

KXFS Presents Max Hattler’s X

Max Hattler's psychedelic geometric animation piece 'X' plays out thrice nightly on a hydro screen projected over a canal.

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Music Video

Blood Red Shoes: In Time to Voices

We love the visceral visual style of Craig Murray’s work. So too do Blood Red Shoes who got him to helm their Over the Top style promo for track In Time

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Music Video

Dead Leaf Echo: I Belong

Shot on a Lumix GF1 by way of a light box, Aaron Maurer directs an otherworldly promo for Dead Leaf Echo’s b-side I Belong. Maurer combined inks with

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Music Video

Sillyboy: All the Records

the cOre (Stathis M. , Vasilis K. , Nikolas A.) display a meticulous murderous method in their promo for Sillyboy’s All the Records.

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN260: Tungijuq – Felix & Paul

Applying throat singer Tanya Tagaq’s instinctual and improvisational approach to creation within the bounds of filmmaking, directing duo Felix &

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