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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.

Art & Fashion

Halston Autumn/Winter 2009

I know we’re more than a little late with this, but after posting The Dø’s Gonna Be Sick! promo last week I took a look through director Nez

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Animation, Asides

Max Hattler: Shift

DN gets excited about experimental animator extraordinaire Max Hattler's first solo show & his new Random Acts commissioned film 'Shift'.

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Music Video

Moonbootica: Iconic

Iconic is a Club Track with a Video you can’t forget. Skinny’s balls out (or more accurately ‘tits’ out) NSFW, promo for Moonbootica

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Music Video

The Golden Filter: Kill Me

The Golden Filter’s Kill Me promo sees maternal love take a twisted turn at the hands of High5Collective.

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Music Video

El Guincho: Bombay

Spanish directing trio CANADA bind a seemingly random collection of images and activities (a fair chunk NSFW) into a captivating, cohesive whole for El Guincho

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Music Video

Fine | Pryntyl

The sound of one hand clapping may still be a question up for debate, but in Fine, the story of a soldier’s birth, life and death, Italian filmmaker

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Animation, Music Video

Yasiin Bey: Niggas In Poorest

Carlo Vega takes Yasiin Bey’s Niggas In Poorest and strips it back to its core components, the lyrics & beats, to arrive at a promo that is genius

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Music Video

The Dø: Gonna Be Sick!

Nez sets The Dø’s Olivia Merilahti adrift on tempestuous, silent seas for the Gonna Be Sick! promo.

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Animation

Pale Blue Dot

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.” Kevin McDowell mixes the sounds of Flying Lotus with Carl Sagan’s narration and a

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Music Video

Bowerbirds: Tuck the Darkness In

A boy forms an aquatic bond stronger than death in Carlos Lopez Estrada’s promo for Bowerbirds Tuck the Darkness In.

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Animation

Run with the Wolves

You’re either running with them or away from them! New micro animation from Vincenzo Lodigiani.

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Documentary

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On

If you live in the UK you’re probably sick to death of the visual plague of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On‘ parodies assaulting you everywhere you

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