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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, Asides, Music Video

MGMT: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

I never thought I’d say this, but Ned Wenlock has convinced me that there actually is a justified use for the page peel in his continual animated promo

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Art & Fashion

TEST

Test is a visual platform that fuses a combination of new and established artists on a constantly changing series of image-led projects. Its name is derived

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Animation, Music Video

Amp!

Steve May and an entourage of bunnies turn it up to 11 and then some.

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Animation, Asides

The Night We Were Kings

Gobelins students (Chloe Nicolay, Manddy Wyckens, Anthony Lejeune, Gaspard Sumeire & Lea Justum) are at it again, and by ‘it’ I mean creating

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Music Video

His Clancyness: Carve A Peach

His Clancyness get the Jamie Harley found footage treatment in his ‘models doing what models do’ unofficial promo for Carve A Peach.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN223: Calvet – Dominic Allan

Jean Marc Calvet has led an extraordinary, and at times, dark life, which made him a perfect subject for director Dominic Allan’s feature documentary

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Live Action

Going to the Store

I’m pretty sure that David Lewandowski’s Going to the Store is the most bizarre thing we’ve ever posted on DN. It’s also totally

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Animation, Asides

Streamschool

Péter Vácz's 2010 grad animation 'Streamschool' is a charming tale of a little girl who, "has an adventure with water as she travels from a small brook to

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Animation

Hutchinson Serenity

Really like this animated ad spot from Fortiche Studio, but as a cyclist I love the idea of the Hutchinson Serenity punture proof tires even more!

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Animation

Vésuves

Two men look at a woman. One wants her, the other one gets her. Our last mention of French outfit CRCR was the wildly kinetic Todor & Petru; their new

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Art & Fashion

Road Trip

Chris Moore and Nick Chappell invite us to take a brief Road Trip with Storm Models’ Anya Barker.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN222: The Grasshopper – Håkon Larssen

Adapted from a short story by Norwegian writer Kjell Askildsen, Håkon Larssen’s The Grasshopper (Gresshoppen) is the story of a couple out of love, in a

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