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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

Don’t Swim After Lunch

Anywalk commissioned short Don’t Swim After Lunch is a charming piece of tabletop animation from Jens Blank, conceived as “a take on daydreaming

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Animation, Film Festival

Why Don’t You Join Us?

Loving this appropriated Pong animation from MK12 which opened the Zero Film Festival’s Occupy Wall Street NYC screening.

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Music Video

Willy Moon: I Wanna Be Your Man

Sometimes super simple, supplemented with a side of smooth shoe shuffling is all you need to create an effective promo. Thomas Knights puts all that sibilance

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Music Video

High Places: Sonora

‘Hell hath no fury like a women with a Popeye power arm of vengeance’; or at least that’s how the saying should go now I’ve watched

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Music Video

Rammstein: Mein Land

It’s an obvious promo ploy to portray a band against their establish image, but that doesn’t stop Jonas Åkerlund’s transformation of german

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Animation, Music Video

Alain Bashung: Variations sur Marilou

A hypnotising musical short film from Maxime Bruneel set to Alain Bashung’s interpretation of Serge Gainsbourg’s Variations sur Marilou. NSFW, but

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Documentary

Made in Iceland

Klara Harden decided to set out on 25 day solo hike across Iceland. Luckily for us, she brought along her cinematographer’s eye and a Canon 550D to

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN221: Littlerock – Mike Ott

Director Mike Ott joins us this week to discuss his second feature Littlerock, a beautifully balanced fish out of water story, with the added complication of a

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Music Video

Die Antwoord: Fok Julle Naaiers

The balls to the wall rap combo we love fear love, Die Antwoord have returned, lyrical guns blazing with Fok Julle Naaiers the promo for the first track from

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Music Video

Robin Foster: Forgiveness

After giving Esben and the Witch a kicking, co-directors Peter King and David Procter bring us what has to be the most graceful, body disposal promo ever

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Documentary

Sean David Christensen

For as long as I can remember my dad always had a moustache… begins Sean David Christensen’s Shave; a short about the first time he saw his

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Animation

Velvet Tissue Zoetrope

The other day I was idly flicking through channels and landed on this fantastic Velvet toilet tissue spot directed by Geoffroy de Crecy for Fallon: Our new ad

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