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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.

Art & Fashion

Maxim Mezentsev’s Celestial Bodies

Maxim Mezentsev’s celestial bodies created with simple, earthly materials are an impressively compulsive viewing experience. I really hope he starts

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN206: WHAT IS UP? – Urban Screen

Urban Screen is a collective of artists from diverse disciplines who combine their talents to develop large-scale, site specific projections on urban surfaces.

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Art & Fashion

Breakfast Interrupted

Armed with the Phantom HD Gold running at a brisk 1000fps Brunton Stroube Studios prove what goes up must come down in the most stylish and hunger inducing way

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Animation, Music Video

The BS of D: Toughest Skin

Jumping from the environmental PSA Small World Energy, Niles Heckman’s new promo is a sublime piece of futurist filmmaking, set inside “a hybrid

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Art & Fashion

Kickstart SOLIPSIST

It’s been a while since director Andrew Huang joined us to discuss his identity seeking machine, experiemental animation Doll Face. Since then he’s

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Art & Fashion

Devendra Banhart at the Rainbow House

Eyewear has never looked as sexy as it does in Lisa Eisner’s spot for Oliver Peoples, staring Devendra Banhart and his real life lady Rebecca Schwartz.

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Live Action

Y2GAY

Y2K may have passed with barely a ripple, but are you really ready for Y2GAY?

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Animation

Zombies | Chainsaw Maid 2

Super lo-fi with a charm that’s hard to resist, Lee Hardcastle has taken a break from his 60 second replays in clay to bring us horrific tales of Zombies

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Live Action

Salazar & Lifetime Collective

Canadian production outfit Salazar apply their talents to a pair of intriguing fashion films for Lifetime Collective.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN205: Animal Control – Kire Paputts

The hidden life of an Animal Services worker by day / taxidermist by night may be the last place you’d expect to find a touching story of friendship

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Animation, Music Video

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then live at EMPAC

Being tethered to the UK as I am, my desire to see Brent Green’s live film performances remains unfullfilled so this footage from his performance at

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Half

With elements of Gondry’s Sugar Water and the 1000 Journals project, Alex Bohs’ Half is a touching split-screen tale of chance encounters and

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