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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.

Film Festival, Live Action

Vimeo Festival 2012: Narrative Finalists

The Vimeo awards narrative category brings a mix of the creepy, the neglected, the helpful and the downright bizarre across its four nominees.

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Documentary

Altered Route

Is skating this good art or just showing off? I have no idea, but the combination of Kilian Martin’s unconventional setups with Brett Novak’s

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Art & Fashion

Escape Your Sentinels

Shot on the RED EPIC MX, Jay Gaderre’s Escape Your Sentinels is a short, sharp and visually arresting portrait of model Alecsa Nelson which was inspired

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN248: What You Need – Nickolas Duarte

Director Nickolas Duarte joins us today with What You Need, his film about a boy out of step with the world around him. We discuss how the idea for a 15 second

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Documentary, Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Documentary Finalists

As paradoxical as it may initially seem there are many ways to present the ‘facts’ of any given situation. The 4 Vimeo awards documentary category

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Music Video

Sweet Tooth Nelson Featuring Jess Paps: No Light

Just a clean livin, outdoorsy guy with a taste for murder stars in Danilo Parra and Matt Jacoby’s promo for Sweet Tooth Nelson’s No Light.

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Animation, Documentary

Vimeo Festival 2012: Series Finalists

The set of related or thematic videos, released periodically that make up the 4 finalists of the Vimeo awards series category in turn take us on a life

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Fashion Finalists

If you’re expecting a parade of emaciated, scantily clad, bedecked drones strutting in unison to pretentious beats, then I’m afraid you’ve

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN247: Tempest – Rob Curry & Anthony Fletcher

In their experimental documentary Tempest, Rob Curry and Anthony Fletcher reimagine and repurpose Shakesphere’s play as a commentary on the lives of

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Music Video

Blood Orange: I'm Sorry We Lied

I think someone needs to inform the music authorities (no not the RIAA, we need someone who understands things such as evidence and cause & effect),

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Live Action

On Greed

Nothing kills a budding romance like selfishness and few people can depict a relationship’s downfall with the measured, lyrical beauty of Jamie Travis,

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Music Video

Ducky: Like Rain

Ani Simon-Kennedy puts songstress Ducky front and centre of her beautifully composed frames in the Like Rain promo.

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