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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

Shy Girl

Following on from El Vez’s Eight Items post earlier today, here’s another entry from the 2012 Sci-Fi London 48hr film challenge. Shy Girl, from DN

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Animation

Metamorphosis

Voiceover artist Thor Erickson perfectly channels the voice, whilst directorial team Buck channel the spirit of legendary gonzo writer Hunter S Thompson, in

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Documentary

MiniLook Kiev

This won’t be the first tiny town, tilt-shift film you’ve seen, but the 4,500 frames of the matchstick travelogue MiniLook Kiev from Efim Graboy

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Animation

Réflexion

A woman goes one on one with her evil mirror self in veteran animator Yoshimichi Tamura’s personal project Réflexion.

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Music Video

Judson: Meet Me In The Morning

Christopher j Ewing gets all ‘Jackson Pollock meets Sam Peckinpah‘ as his telekinetic heroine battles her way through a rainbow violence splattered

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN242: BEAR – Carlos Lopez Estrada

Freshly returned from an inspiring trip to SXSW, director

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Music Video

Mark Foster, A-Trak & Kimbra: Warrior

Mark Foster, A-Trak and Kimbra make their painful progress up the Lucha libre ranks in a hybrid music promo/ad spot from DANIELS for the 3 Artists, 1 Song

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Animation

Spaceman

A character animation short featuring the curious Spaceman, his malfunctioning suit and the of course the object of his interest; the elusive Dragoncopterfly!

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Music Video

Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs: Demoni

Reminiscent of David Wilson’s We Got Time promo (admittedly sans wolf masks), Theodore Ushev’s zoopraxiscope inspired promo for Kottarashky &

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Music Video

Delta Spirit: California

Friends, booze, drugs and no real place to go, Abteen Bagheri’s California promo for Delta Spirit proves they’re not kidding when they say that

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News

Vimeo Awards 2012 Voting Open

So the deadline has passed and the 2012 Vimeo Awards submissions have been whittled down to a svelte 156 shorts across 13 categories, now all that’s left

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Art & Fashion

Me, Marc & Hugh

Besides the April 9th birth date, I see a common thread in our interests, work ethics and ambitions. I thought it would be a fun project to release as a

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