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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

Hyperpotamus: De Camino

Director Lucas Borrás mans all roles in this creative promo for Hyperpotamus’ De Camino.

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Art & Fashion

La Vague

I don’t think any explanation for what takes place in La Vague from La Maison Démontable could come anywhere near doing this bizarrely intriguing film

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Animation, Podcasts

DN239: Fubar – HaZ Dulull

If like me it’s your natural instinct to avoid online cat movies at all costs, HaZ Dulull’s epic conspiracy, battlefield short Fubar is likely to

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Documentary

Innocent, in a Way

Porn actress Belladonna and Spanish painter Alberto Mielgo come together in Alexis Wanneroy’s (NSFW) documentary Innocent, in a Way to discuss concepts

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Animation

Chainsaw Babe

Rules dictate if you’ve put out two parts of a splatter-fest horror film, a trilogy is inevitable. Goremation master Lee Hardcastle adds the sexy (and

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Music Video

Factory Floor: On Hold

Pure looping brilliance from AB/CD/CD meets the pulsing beat of Factory Floor’s On Hold.

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Documentary

Braveface

You want a good life, you want more. In the aftermath of last August’s England riots, the hitherto ignored ‘youth’ of the country’s

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Animation, Asides

Unnamed Soundsculpture

Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer captivate with their experimental combination of consumer tech, dance and creative imagination, 'Unnamed Soundsculpture'.

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Animation, Asides

Luca Dipierro Book Trailers

It’s been a little while since we looked in on Luca Dipierro but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been busy. Over the past few years Luca has

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Animation

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time is an older piece (2006) from Supinfocom students Corentin Laplatte, Samuel Deroubaix, Jerome Dernoncourt, which promises (and delivers),

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Art & Fashion

SHE: Version 2

Back in January Craig Murray released SHE: SET THE DESTROYER, but tantalised us with the fact that it was version 1/2. Version 2 is now available, running at

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN238: Doctor Glamour – Andrew W Jones

Proving that he’s lost none of his crazy, imaginative approach to storytelling since he last joined us, director Andrew W Jones returns to DN with his

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