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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.

Live Action

Blind

Japanese director Yukihiro Shoda’s post-nuclear short Blind see’s a salaryman haunted by surreal visions in a dimension not so distant from ours.

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Animation

Yulia

Antoine Arditti’s 2009 existential animation Yulia sees a lighting strike transport Yulia to a closed room where 5 levers, and more than a little

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Documentary, Music Video

Kickstart From ATP – four short films by Vincent Moon

If you’ve ever attended one of their events across the globe you’ll know that the All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals and gigs are all about two

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Animation, Podcasts

DN219: Breakfast | Screwed Up – Kris Hofmann

I’ve been a fan of animator Kris Hofmann’s stop motion work since seeing her true lives of the animals we eat piece Breakfast a couple years ago.

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Documentary

Bots High Free Worldwide Screening Day

Back in August we spoke to Joey Daoud, director of the high school battle bots documentary Battle Bots. While we were only able to share a few clips,

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Music Video

Brite Futures: Too Young To Kill

Director Noel Paul of DN promo favourites That Go, kicks the Brite Futures Too Young To Kill video into high creative gear by adding a repeating, glitchy

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Live Action

Live the Language: Los Angeles | Sydney | Vancouver

Creative advertising is something I feel should always be applauded and Gustav Johansson’s Live the Language series of films for the EF Intl. Language

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Asides, Live Action

Wasp

Of the 100s, probably 1000s of short films I've seen in my life, Andrea Arnold's 2003 Oscar winning short 'Wasp' is without a doubt one of the best.

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Art & Fashion

100 Years of East London Style

Directed by Jake Lunt and produced by The Viral Factory for the grand opening of the Westfield shopping center in Stratford City, East London, 100 Years of

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Animation

Vincenzo Lodigiani’s Logo Shorts

What are the creative limits of manipulating a ▵●● logo? After working my way through Milan based motion designer Vincenzo Lodigiani’s Logo Shorts

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Live Action, Music Video

Q.G.: Bomb Disaster

You know all those warning videos, posters and lectures you’ve experienced about the ills of drug use? Well Pierre Teulières’ promo for Bomb

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN218: Undying Love – Omar Hauksson

I was skeptical I’d ever come across another zombie short worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as the classic I Love Sarah Jane, that was until I

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