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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

Une Fille Comme Les Autres

“She’s all, ‘fuck that shit, I wanna be her!'” Playing out like a stream of consciousness pre-pitch session, Matthew Frost’s ad

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

iLLuSionS

Whilst I’ll be the first to drool over the latest fashion film of cavorting models sometimes it’s nice to just get back to basics. Panagiotis

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Animation

We Don’t Play Football | Cellule

École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs student Thomas Pons’ animations may shift in style from piece to piece but all seem to share a common

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN231: Any Day Now – Matt Jay

Matt Jay’s short Any Day Now explores the life of a young woman as she attempts to navigate a new city and her role as ‘the other woman’.

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Music Video

Die Antwoord: I Fink U Freeky

Ninja and Roger Ballen share directorial duties for I Fink U Freeky, the second track to drop from Die Antwoord’s forthcoming album Ten$Ion.

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Art & Fashion

BFI Future Film Festival Trailer 2012

Leo Bridge, who joined us last year (along with Ben Thomas) with the stunning paper craft, mixed media short Train of Thought, has cooked up a rather hands on

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Animation, Asides

Back to the Start

Johnny Kelly’s Nexus spot for Chipotle sees a simple farm lose its way by succumbing to the evils of industrialisation. Luckily, the farmer recants and

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Asides, Music Video

Digitals

Chris Crutchfield creates the score that powers our digital lives in his humorous short Digitals.

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Asides, Music Video

Nicki Minaj: Stupid Hoe

Hype Williams busts out the epileptic editing for Nicki Minaj's 'Stupid Hoe'.

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Art & Fashion

th0r

A man is transfixingly disintegrated to the sounds of Luca Rinaudo in Antonio Cusimano’s experimental piece th0r.

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Animation

Aesop: Kingdom of Frogs

Based on Aesop’s fable the Frog’s that Desired a King, Jesse Ewles has combined his unique stop motion style with the Dean Tzenos’ music for

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Live Action

The Bark Side

I was pretty sure that every conceivable Star Wars parody had to have been played out by now, that was until I saw Keith Schofield’s genius ad spot for

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