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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.

Live Action

Plastic

Anna discovers that the physical perfection she desires is just a push and pull away in Sandy Widyanata’s Plastic.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN244: Wishful, Sinful – Brad Bores

Self financed, shot at weekends with a skeleton crew and released online for free, Brad Bores’ Wishful, Sinful could be said to be the definition of the

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Animation

Little Cars

Lilian Hardouineau (yes the one we featured a few days back with Organic Trip – I must stop stealing El Vez’s directors!), proves that a dramatic

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Live Action

The United Monster Talent Agency

SFX and make-up master Greg Nicotero harks back to the days before CGI when moviegoers had to rely on the sterling work of folks like The United Monster Talent

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Animation

Radio Nova

Ever wondered about the goings on deep inside the male body? Sl-Co split a man open to reveal all in their brief animation Radio Nova.

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Music Video

Stealing Sheep: Shut Eye

Whenever I see a film that utilises stop motion buttons, I unfairly compare it with Denise Hauser’s strange mirrored worlds short Copy City. While Rivkah

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Hilary Hahn & Hauschka: Bounce Bounce

Hayley Morris creates a colourful parade of tide pool choreography for her delightfully tactile feeling music video for German pianist Hauschka.

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Animation

After Leaving a Forest

A man haunted by war returns home to find he no longer has a place, in Sophie Diao’s affecting animation After Leaving a Forest.

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Animation

Share Our Streets

On the rare occasions I venture out of DN towers it’s always on two wheels, which means I’m no stranger to the shall we say… challenging

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Live Action

First the Worst

Two unpopular kids attempt to one up each other in the loser stakes in First the Worst from Bevan Walsh, who you may remember from the charming porn discovery

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Animation

Wife of a Farmer

Amanda Winterstein takes us into the lonely life of the Wife of a Farmer in her creepy animation for CalArts.

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Asides, Music Video

Roscoe: Lowlands

Amidst Bucharest's junkyards and deserted roadsides, Norman Bates' tells the story of the father/son bond abused and tested beyond breaking point.

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