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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.

Documentary, Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Action Sports Finalists

Another new addition to the Vimeo awards, the action sports category features video that uses filmmaking to creatively showcase action sports. The 4 finalists

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Live Action

"FIRECRACKER!"

Lovers from different sides of the tracks fight to come together in a shower of fireworks in Addison Mehr’s Guy Maddin inspired 16mm Tisch project

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Art & Fashion

STEADYo

Yo-yos, their function is primarily to travel down and then back up a string spinning as they go, or for the more ambitious practitioner perhaps a loop da loop

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Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Remix Finalists

I like to think of this new addition to the Vimeo awards as the waste not, want not category but I suppose that’s not nearly as snappy as the remix

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Live Action

Tiny Little Words

Consciously or not, I suspect the reason many directors take up filmmaking as their tool of expression instead of opting for the pen, is that the visual arts

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Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Advertising Finalists

For an industry worried about the migration of eyeballs away from its content through the magic of TiVo commercial skipping and the continual increase of

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Art & Fashion

Fall and Dream

Photographer Thomas Paquet plays with concepts of space and boundaries in his ‘girl in a box’ film Fall and Dream for Cent Magazine.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN246: Sightseers – Ben Wheatley

Every time director Ben Wheatley puts out a film it invariably makes its way onto my top ten list for that year (2009, 2011), so it’s pretty clear

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Animation, Documentary

Making The Eagleman Stag

It’s always great when we find an impressive film that comes bundled with an informative ‘Making of’ video to give a bit of insight on the

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Live Action

OFFF Barcelona 2012 Main Titles

Is there a festival out there which hands out awards for the best festival titles? If so, I’m saying that OFFF Barcelona would sweep the board once again

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Asides, Live Action

Help David Easteal Make Monaco Pozible

Monaco is the new short film by emerging Melbourne based writer/director David Easteal. It is an observational character study of a well-meaning young man,

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Division

A piece of paper is divided by hand into an even number of pieces and then reassembled - Johan Rijpma switches experimental gears in 'Division'.

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