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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.

Documentary

Animals

Shot during a family holiday in Costa Rica on a Canon 7D (fitted with the standard 18-135mm kit lens) and edited to the sounds of by Michael Nyman’s Time

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Art & Fashion

One Year on my Desktop

By its very nature we never get to see what directors leave on their cutting room floors, those moments that don’t make it to the final polished product.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN209: The Ghosts – Eddie O’Keefe

Director Eddie O’Keefe crashes on to the show this week with his ‘Teenage Fever Dream’ short The Ghosts. We discuss the benefits of the

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Music Video

Moby: Wait for Me

Music, and the images it conjures in the mind is a very personal thing which shifts from person to person. Many a killer promo pitch has fallen by the wayside,

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Live Action

Unleash Your Fingers

JayFunk gets his Finger Tutting gymnastics on in Vincent Kherroubi’s Unleash Your Fingers spot for Samsung. via Plant Blog.

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Animation

Cutters | Play

I was totally blown away by Cutters from Turkish animator Ahmet Serif Yildirim, especially as I first took it to be a paper craft piece. However a scan through

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Documentary

Everything is a Remix: Part 3

In part 3 of Everything is a Remix Kirby Ferguson takes a look at tech and how the best, improve on the good, to create the new: “Creativity isn’t

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Steel Life – Mateusz Zdziebko & Patryk Kizny

Steel. Calm, cold, solid, rigid and unchanged. Life. Fast, emotional, harmful and responsive. Have you ever wondered what would the world look like if all

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Documentary

Ball Of Light

When we spoke to the Pikapika team back in 2006, it was clear that light painting is one of those crafts that are easy to learn but hard to master (just take a

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Animation, Documentary

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

Watch Patrick Clair’s excellent explaination of the Stuxnet virus and tell me that the marriage of motion graphics and data visualisation isn’t

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Live Action

In the Shadow

Described as “a film noir with shadows,” Fabrice Mathieu’s In the Shadow (Dans l’ombre) tells the story of a a shadow forced to

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Music Video

Outlines: I Cannot Think

Through the years many a track has made me want to punch someone in the face but David Tomaszewski’s I Cannot Think promo for Outlines takes that impulse

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