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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, Podcasts

DN208: Island – Brek Taylor & Elizabeth Mitchell

Brek Taylor and Elizabeth Mitchell discuss their psychological drama feature debut 'Island' - a haunting tale of yearning, retribution and redemption.

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Animation

FITC Toronto 2011 Titles

MK12’s refreshment stand countdown to showtime, created for last month’s FITC Toronto 2011 festival is a work of perverse animated genius.

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Live Action

Year Zero – OFFF Barcelona 2011 Main Titles

Playing much more like the opening to a movie depicting a vision of a dystopian, totalitarian future than a festival title sequence, Mischa Rozema’s

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Asides, Music Video

Metronomy: The Bay

David Wilson heads out for 'The Bay' in his luscious new music video for Metronomy.

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Documentary

Intel’s Visual Life

For some reason Intel’s Visual Life campaign had completely passed me by, (thanks Short of the Week for catching me up) possibly because it’s one

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Music Video

Big Face 2011

“During a data purge I came across the files that I used to make this vid 5 years ago for the av album greedy baby. I never thought that the version i

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Animation, Podcasts

DN207: Train of Thought – Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas

Leo Bridle and Ben Thoma’s graduation short Train of Thought is an impressive mix of cut-out live action, stop motion, paper craft, green screen,

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Live Action

Charlie

We didn’t get round to posting this at the time, but having just wrapped a DN interview with director Luke Snellin, who impressed us all with his Virgin

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Asides, Live Action

The War of the Worlds HDR Timelapse

Deciding he’d prefer to tell a classic story rather than simply create some eye candy for his timelapse showreel piece, Rafael Asquith gather HDR jpegs

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Jon Hopkins & King Creosote: Bubble

A simply beautiful animated music video from Elliot Dear for the Jon Hopkins and King Creosote collaboration 'Bubble'.

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Animation, Asides

A Family Portrait – Joseph Pierce

Back in December El Vez shared his rediscovery of Joseph Pierce’s animated short Stand Up, which had made its initial impression after he viewed it at

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Live Action

UNTITLED (2011)

Director Craig Murray unleashes UNTITLED (2011), a grotesquely beautiful, horror lab performance piece, set to the sounds of Múm.

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