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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

Kickstart Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told

We’ve been following the work of filmmaker, photographer and artist Kurtis Hough for nearly as long as DN’s been running and in that time

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Documentary

Symmetry

Everynone team up with WNYC’s Radiolab again to bring us a balanced look at the world in Symmetry.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides, Music Video

Max Hattler: VIS Festival Trailer 2011 & L’ombelico del mondo

It seems that Max Hattler has an aversion to sleep. How else can he keep cranking out quality projects at such a rate of knots – hmm, perhaps he’s

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Stantz: Awakening

3,500 pictures, one song, a home made light, a photography tripod, one model. An afternoon shooting, three days editing. Oh and NSFW.

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Art & Fashion

Paper Girl

Ora Kolmanovsky presents the delicate beauty of paper-cut in her experimental film Paper Girl.

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Art & Fashion

The Room Magazine

A pair of beautifully shot videos for The Room magazine. https://vimeo.com/15947087

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Introducing Suwappu!

Really liking this intro video for the Suwappu! app readable toys. Hope they make the jump from concept to production soon. Suwappu is a group of characters

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Live Action

A Love Story

Before the metal rage of Hesher director Spencer Susser showed us the true pain of love lost.

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Super M Adventures

Inspired by trashy Turkish movies of the 70s, Arunas Eimulis’ 3-part Superman spoof films are bizarrely compelling.

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Music Video

TV On The Radio: Nine Types of Light

A couple of weeks back El Vez posted the the promo for the the new TV on the Radio single Will Do, but to accompany the album dropping a couple days ago, the

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Oah & Harlam Episodes

One of my greatest pleasures (or should that be time sinks?) is stumbling over a film on Vimeo, then digging into the filmmaker’s archives to get a

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Music Video

Bart Constant: Do Better

Flashy candy coloured visuals and smart optical tricks may be the staple of the modern music video but it always pleases me to see a promo that instead shoots

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