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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, Asides

FIGURE

Uniting under the banner of *Asterisk, MEISAI (Dance), MANUKE (Direction) and Kenji Kariu (Sound) created the experimental dance piece FIGURE “a short

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Art & Fashion

Breathless

Last year Chris Boyle’s Summer Camp promo finally justified the existence of looping animated gifs for me, and now Diego Agulló has elevated them to an

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Music Video

Moullinex & Peaches: Maniac

For the Moullinex / Peaches reworking of Michael Sembello’s Maniac, KOPE | FIGGINS shift the Flashdance action to a raree show occupied by an alluringly

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN232: Destiny Lives Down the Road – Daneeta Loretta & Patrick Jackson

Daneeta Loretta & Patrick Jackson discuss the production techniques which enabled their nimble crew of two to shoot this post-Katrina coming of age story.

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Live Action

Misery Guts

When we last looked in on East London director Abbie Stephens, she had just completed her impressively dedicated mixed media promo for Loose Fit, so it’s

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Live Action

The Future Belongs to the Curious

Putting a creative approach behind their mission statement of Learn anything from anyone, anywhere, Skillshare remind us that The Future Belongs to the

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Animation

BrokenWave

Chris Allen juxtaposes animation styles to transport us from a smooth beachside present to an angular past of aerial attack.

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Animation, Music Video

Niki & The Dove: The Fox

Faces may shift and change but The Fox remains the same. Intriguingly brilliant animated promo from WINTR for Niki & The Dove. via The Curious Brain

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Music Video

OK Go: Needing/Getting

Whether you’re a fan of their music or not, there’s no denying that OK Go reign supreme when it comes to imaginative Rube Goldbergesque music

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Music Video

Sleep Party People: A Dark God Heart

Not only does Marie Limkilde’s A Dark God Heart promo for Brian Batz’s bedroom project Sleep Party People look stunning, its single bathroom

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Live Action

Albatross DVD

Outside of the briefest of flying visits I was a no show at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which meant that (amongst many other

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Music Video

Father John Misty: Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings

Few things make me happier than new work from That Go, and watching Aubrey Plaza rush headlong down a road of self-destruction in Noel Paul’s promo for

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