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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, Art & Fashion

The Light of Life

Breathtakingly beautiful animation from Daihei Shibata. Life is transparent, warm and swirls randomly like a soft light. And it constantly changes… Life

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Live Action

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared

Having trouble tapping into your creative side? THIS IS IT have an inspirational song to get you back on track.

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Animation, Film Festival

Person Pinball

Aaron Hughes’ closing bumper for the eighth Animation Block Party film festival turns unsuspecting passers-by in to components in his human pinball

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Animation

Gulp

So how on earth do you follow earning a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film with Dot? You get the

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Film Festival, Live Action

RSSF2011: Long Form

If you love shorts, then you’ll know that it’s easy to have too much of a good thing. Many a short film full of promise has blown a promising

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Film Festival, Live Action

RSSF2011: Newcomer

Designed to cover “fictional, live action work by new filmmakers in the UK, under 12 minutes” the Rushes Soho Shorts Newcomer category is probably

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Film Festival, Music Video

RSSF2011: Music Video

There was a time, when along with ad spots, the music video was the perfect playground for directors to flex their creative muscles on vast budgets, exotic

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Animation

The Outsiders

Director Maksim Razumnikov warns us that The Outsiders are the only ones who ‘know what hides behind the fluppy colorfull creatures. Nothing will stand

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Documentary, Film Festival

RSSF2011: Documentary

Despite the resurgent interest in the feature documentary, the short documentary finds little chance to get the attention it deserves outside of rare venues

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Art & Fashion

Mirrored

French filmmakers The sons of Stan Brakhage present Mirrored an experimental film worthy of their namesake, on the act of artistic creation.

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Animation, Asides

The Sleischers

In their own words 'The Sleischers' is a "Short wacky animated trash film by Tim Razumovsky & Eyal Oren", and it's disturbingly wonderful!

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Animation

Fracture & Neptune: Customtone

Making quite an entrance with their hand drawn style of animated abstracts for Fracture & Neptune’s track Customtone, new creative team UTILE

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