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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

PIN

Conceived as an exercise in creating characters from the simplest of shapes, Elise Fachon gives personality and character to a world populated by the normally

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Music Video

Pony Pony Run Run: Just a Song

Mary Clerté & Edouard Bertrand direct this collection of beautifully strange (NSFW) ladies being all the more intriguing for it, in their promo for Pony

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Art & Fashion

Emergence | Float | Black

Without additional computer animation and effects the Cologne based Susi Sie creates astounding experimental video artwork by manipulating (sometimes for

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Music Video, Podcasts

DN251: Emil & Friends – Michael Lawrence

Director and photographer Michael Lawrence has built a fruitful collaboration with musician Emil Hewitt over several music promos and joins us today to discuss

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Music Video

Future of the Left: I am the Least of Your Problems

Tom Betts and Ellen Waddell thrust Future of the Left right up in our faces for the epilepsy inducing promo I am the Least of Your Problems. Have your seizure

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Music Video

Kindness: House

If you’ve ever suspected putting together a pop anthem is child’s play, co-directors Daniel Brereton and Adam Bainbridge’s (aka Kindness)

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Live Action

Waltz for One

Breaking into internet orbit just in time to commemorate the 49th anniversary of cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky’s near on 5 days of solo space flight, John

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Animation

My Way

There were too many players for my taste, I liked to play on my own. Based on Svjetlan Junaković’s original book, Veljko Popović directs the animated

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Music Video

Cocorosie: We Are On Fire

Cocorosie return with new track We are on Fire and reunite with the directing skills of Emma Freeman who gives their fabulous weirdness a gravity defying

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Live Action

Like Mike

I can’t begin to sing the praises of Daniel Cloud Campos’ hilarious short enough. Perfectly toned, with great dancing, an unfussy but fitting

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Art & Fashion

Writers Block

A young writer seeks inspiration as she attempts to make it in Hollywood in Gia Coppola’s fun fashion film for Diane von Furstenberg’s

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN250 – Mr. Foley – D.A.D.D.Y.

Irish filmmaking duo D.A.D.D.Y. put sound (and the lack of it) front and centre in their playful short Mr. Foley. Mike and Enda join us to discuss creativity

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