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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.

Asides, Music Video

Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes

Beautifully stunning and chilling in equal measures, Kahlil Joseph has created an otherworldly 35mm promo to herald the return of Flying Lotus with the short

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Documentary

Flatline

Extending his original Sundance premiering short Heart Stop Beating, Jeremiah Zagar’s documentary Flatline tells the story of two visionary doctors from

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Animation

Metro

Metro is a delightfully playful animation from Jacob Wyatt about a girl and a fox.

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Art & Fashion

Vanessa Bruno: Moonlight

A stellar girl, a radiant girl who clutches onto the moon and arrives in an unknown land, on unmarred ground, as immaculate as her white ensemble. Is this the

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Asides, Live Action

OFFF México 2012: Once, When We Were Young

Six friends come of age at the end of the world in Rob Chiu’s stunning dramatic short within a title sequence for OFFF Mexico.

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Music Video

Einar Stray: Caressed

Marie Limkilde shifts from the watery dreaminess of A Dark God Heart to strange goings on in the forest in her beautiful promo for Einar Stray’s

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Animation

Princess of the Magical Tears

Fairytale powers and cold, hard commerce meet in Brian Carter’s comedy animation Princess of the Magical Tears

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Live Action

Tentacle

Commissioned by Dunkelziffer Tentacle from Rokkit’s The Vikings translates the insidious and devastating long-lasting effects of child abuse into a powerful

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Art & Fashion

ANIMA

Duncan Bone turns his skills towards fashion in ANIMA, a film created for the Christian Louboutin Exhibition at the London Design Museum.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN259: Bolero – Dennis Brucks

Dennis Brucks’ concept movie Bolero creatively plays out its harrowing tale over a dialogue free mix of extreme slow motion and flashback. Dennis joins

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Film Festival, News

Reading & Leeds 2012

DN takes some of our favourite shorts on a road trip to the Reading & Leeds music festivals to show them off as part of our annual Cinema Tent screenings.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Model Starship

An all too brief, but no less impressive, new piece of abstract animation from Max Hattler commissioned by fashion magazine Journal.

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