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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

Happy Towel Day

Oren Mashkovski and Eran Mendel are sending out the Douglas Adams love on this sacred day. Do you have yours? via @aniboom

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Engine Angelic

Commissioned by Animate Projects as part of Rough Machines Katerina Athanasopoulou’s Engine Angelic is an experimental piece about “a cruel machine

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Animation, Music Video

D N A U X B

Tony Comley returns with D N A U X B – the tale of a brave Femto-panda fighter pilot on a breakneck mission to warn the galaxy of impending doom –

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Animation

Slimtime

Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin and Thea Matland unite as the latest Supinfocom super team of animators for the eyewateringly gorgeous Play Time

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Asides, Documentary, Music Video

An Island DVD & PWYW Download

We may have mentioned once or twice how much we loved the Vincent Moon / Efterklang collaboration An Island and with it hitting over 1,200 Private-Public

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Animation

Feckly: The Big Ass Blast Fairy

If “the adventures of a sexually frustrated fairy who picks a fight with a powerful spirit who bends time to retrieve weapons from the future”

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Art & Fashion

Hanna | 486 | Illusion Project 2010

With her mix of stop motion and straight live action films Daphne Samaras is definitely someone I’ll be keeping an eye on in future.

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Art & Fashion

Mossgrove / Bed of Moss

Last month I posted Kurtis Hough’s piece Bed of Moss, a contemplative film shot amidst the rich mossy nature of Oregon. As I mentioned back then, Kurt

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Documentary, Music Video

Petites Planètes

Is it possible that there are other filmmakers working as hard as Vincent Moon? If he’s not documenting Efterklang’s return to the island of Als,

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN204: Douglas Burgdorff

Douglas Burgdorff makes films you can’t watch in front of your parents or at work, but their hypnotic, messed up beauty make them the guiltiest of morish

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Animation

Alexandre DUBOSC’s Food Films

Reminiscent of the stop motion work of PES, Alexandre DUBOSC’s animated food films will leave you both impressed and famished. Show Co Show ‘Making

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Birth

Inspired by his shift into fatherhood following the arrival of his first son, Pierre-Luc Racine’s Birth plays like the opening of an epic space opera

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