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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

Cours Lapin: Cache Cache

Nadia Marquard Otzen directs some mighty strange goings on in the woods for Cours Lapin’s creepy kids promo Cache Cache. https://vimeo.com/33587990 After

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Music Video

Justice: New Lands (UnOfficial)

“I scratched for three years frame by frame crosses on the breasts of women,
filmed in Super 8, if you like See it.” When you receive a viewing

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Music Video

My Dry Wet Mess: Etcetera

I know you can’t help but try to make sense of Martin Allais’ bizarre promo for My Dry Wet Mess’ Etcetera, but I have the worrying feeling

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Music Video

The Phenomenal Handclap Band & Peaches: Walk The Night

Back from the exploits of the raree show for another stop on the Casablanca Reworks EP, Peaches this time joins up with The Phenomenal Handclap Band for a

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Music Video

Die Antwoord: Baby's On Fire

Could you say that we’re more than a little obsessed with Die Antwoord and their NSFW videos? Probably. In which case you won’t be surprised to

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Art & Fashion

T H E M – Heavier Than Heaven

Juan Cabral reaches skywards in the Heavier Than Heaven presentation of THEM’s 90s mood inspired Winter/Fall 2012 collection.

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Art & Fashion

Rapunzel

A stop-motion animation piece from Denise Hauser created to introduce Oslo based fashion designer Mari Melilot’s graduation collection.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN249: Return to Sender – Denise Hauser

It’s little over three years since director Denise Hauser joined us for an interview about her mixed-media short Copy City, so it’s a long overdue

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Art & Fashion

Flatten

Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree play with their food to impressive effect in Flatten, their exploration of the forms and shapes food makes when you flatten them.

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Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: DN Picks

With little insight into the judging process or any real logic save ‘we love this one’, here are our picks for the best of each category in the

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Documentary, Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Captured Finalists

There’s nothing quite like being there, but until cloning and teleportation become everyday technologies we’re always going to need people out

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Music Video

Naive New Beaters: Jersey

The competition heats up and dirty tricks abound in Remy Cayuela’s speed walking promo for Jersey from the Naive New Beaters (there’s 1 NSFW shot

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