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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.

Animation

The Beautiful City: 99 John

If the goings on of the Madchester scene depicted by Michael Winterbottom in 24 Hour Party People and the surreal tone of the now sadly defunct BBC Three

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Music Video

Mario & Vidis: Changed

Lithuanian directors Mantas Skrupskelis and Vytautas Volbekas aka Phantom present a parallel world soundtracked by Mario & Vidis’ Changed, in which

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Live Action

Little Man

Julius Avery’s 2004 short Little Man is a grim but powerful story of a boy fighting for his mother’s love and attention against the competing

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Art & Fashion

Alan Kępski

Even by the outlandish standards of most fashion films Alan Kępski’s work stands apart as unusual, but it is their singular nature which makes Telogen

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Animation

Alphabetic

Ariel Costa takes us on a graphical journey from A-Z in his animation experiment, Alphabetic.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN241: Town of Runners – Jerry Rothwell

It wasn’t until I’d invited documentary director Jerry Rothwell to discuss his latest feature Town of Runners that I realised I’d been a fan

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Asides, Music Video

PushMethod: Scars and Stripes

New York director Matt Pizzano and PushMethod ramp up the political aggression with their anti-capitalism promo Scars and Stripes.

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Documentary

Alive Inside: Clip of Henry

Throughout life I’ve used the question “What music are you into?” as a shorthand to check my compatibility with new acquaintances. Even if

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Music Video

Big Dipper: Drip Drop

I know some of you had to face the trials and tribulations of a return to work today after the extended Easter weekend, so to let you know that all joy

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Documentary

Micro Empire | Macro Kingdom

Clemens Wirth’s microscopic and macro visuals are stunning to behold. Here we get to relish in a quartet of them set in the Micro Empire & Macro Kingdom.

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Art & Fashion

Essays On Reality: Chapter 1

Montreal based director Greg Barth brings us a new experimental series: Essays on reality is an ongoing series of short caricatures, Influenced by the

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Art & Fashion

I Wanna Be Your Dog

I’m betting that you’ve never seen The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog covered quite like it is in Legs director Georgie Greville’s

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