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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.

Music Video

K-Holes: Window In The Wall

The typical roles may be reversed, but the realities of being forced to sell yourself by someone you love remain just as harsh in Sebastian Mlynarski’s

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Art & Fashion

Pop Le Cheval

On first glance, I took Canadian director Kristof Brandl’s Pop Le Cheval to be a fashion film, albeit one which existed in a grimly intriguing world of

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Live Action

Halbschlaf

Inspired by a newspaper article, Johannes Hartmann’s Halbschlaf is a love story that will leave you with a chill. Hartmann’s currently

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Music Video

Sixteen Saltines

The teens are acting up in in AG Rojas’ promo for new Jack White single Sixteen Saltines.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN240: Bruno – Alvaro San José

When I happened across Alvaro San José’s short Bruno I was totally taken by its lyrical, dialogue free beauty, even more so on discovering it was his

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Live Action

Larry Mannequin

Merlin Bronques’ Larry Mannequin casts his scathing eye around the preening, self obsessed epicentre of ‘the scene’ and finds it and everyone

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Documentary

Losers

As long as Everynone keep making their beautifully observed videos we’ll keep posting them. This time round the bullies get called out as the real

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Animation

Michael Langan

Film is imitating life … and we can mess with it like crazy! (IFC Icons) Yesterday I read Thrash Lab’s interview with Andrew Huang for Solipsist and

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Documentary

Silver & Light

I didn’t just build a camera, I created a time machine. Ian Ruhter and Lane Power’s wet plate photography documentary Silver & Light, captures

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Animation, Asides

Tiny Story

London based design outfit Sebas & Clim marry simple geometric shapes with graceful motion to tell this 'Tiny Story'.

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Animation

Frangin

When his brother goes off to war, a boy attempts to remain connected with him through his memories and the carrier pigeons he keeps, in Geoffroy

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Music Video

Emil & Friends: Rwa Bhineda

Michael Lawrence’s Rwa Bhineda invites us to take an Emil & Friends soundtracked trek through Bali. There’ll be an ethereal dancing girl,

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