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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

A History of the Title Sequence

If ever there’s a design documentary that absolutely needs to exist, it’s on the art and craft of the title sequence and those pioneers who took it

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Art & Fashion

Hunter

He tracks across the beach, through forest and city, land and water alike. He will never stop, he is Hunter!

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Animation

Chute (Fall)

Mathias Lachal has created a balletic, animated fall to earth in his Emile Cohl graduation film Chute (Fall).

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN212 – Absentia – Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan’s missing persons, horror feature Absentia does away with cheap jump scares in favour of a character study on the tolls absence takes on

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Animation

Les Talons Rouges

Olesya Shchukina’s student film Les Talons Rouges is a playful response to her brief from La Poudriere animation school to create a one minute film, in 3

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Animation

Looks That Kill Book & DVD

So last month El Vez clued me in to the seductively stylish, action packed world of Yuki 7 and her crack team of super spies The Gadget Girls with a duo of

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Music Video

Cults: Go Outside

To bring Cults track Go Outside to haunting life, director Isaiah Seret worked with Fielding M. McGehee III, “an expert on Peoples Temple history and the

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Animation, Asides

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore tells the story of Morris Lessmore, a man who loves words, stories and books and who books love back.

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Animation, Music Video

Secret Skwirl: Jeez Louise

An impressive animated promo from Maxime Bruneel for a mysterious musical duo skulking under the name Secret Skwirl: In Los Angeles, Paris, and in London, at

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Music Video

‪Warpaint: Warpaint‬‏

You may have already noticed my weakness for the fine ladies of Warpaint and their promos, so will be unsurprised to find me once again shouting about another

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Documentary

Facts About Projection

Smitten with Temujin Doran’s whimsical tale The Adventures of a Cardboard Box after seeing it screen as one of the Nokia Shorts finalists, I decided to get

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN211: Ten for Grandpa – Doug Karr

How interesting is your grandfather? I’m willing to bet that no matter what he did in his younger years, it pales into insignificance when stacked up

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