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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, Music Video

Do I Have Power

Carlos De Carvalho’s animated promo for Timber Timbre track Do I Have Power has the impressive silhouette look of Playdead’s Limbo given an infusion of

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Weekend: Part 1

The road takes its toll on outsider lovers in part 1 of Jack Lightfoot and Robin Mason’s Weekend, a fashion viral produced by Blindeye Films.

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Music Video

Mint Julep: To The Sea

Mint Julep and directing duo a nice idea every day team up again for some more camera shift promo action in To The Sea

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Documentary

Everything is a Remix: Part 4

Kirby Ferguson completes his enlightening documentary series Everything is a Remix with a look at the shortcomings of the current laws applied to ideas. Our

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Documentary

Buenos Aires: By Arturo

Switching from the animated approach of We Love Copenhagen to documentary, but still maintaining the city love, Fabricio Lima shows us Buenos Aires as seen

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Live Action

Bro

When I penned a few words about Chris Dundon’s short Bro for Short of the Week at the end of 2010, the film was only available on the BBC’s Film

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Art & Fashion

Benah: Pale Ryder

Demonstrating that alongside the aching beauty of Apricot and the brain twisting intrigue of Some Static Started he can just as aptly turn his hand to

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Documentary

Show Your Love with Hearts

Oh come now, you can’t possibly object to us buying into this beautiful day of manufactured romantic displays, not when the visuals are so good?

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Live Action

I Love Sarah Jane

Nothing says I love you in short film form better than Spencer Susser’s 'I Love Sarah Jane'.

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Animation

Les Petits Bonheurs des Objets

Gobelins students Margot Gabel, Cynthia Mergel, Hélène Chataigner, Camille Dorival & Marie Spénale give us a peak into the romantic lives of desktop

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Live Action

Magnificat

Riley Stearns’ Magnificat is the story of a young woman tormented by malevolent visions that begin to bleed into reality. It’s a film that would

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Art & Fashion

SyncBody

How about we kick the week off with the mind blowing, glitchy excellence of Syncbody from Daihei Shibata?

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