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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

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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Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Wrap Up

With a few weeks’ perspective (and a whole lot of sleep) on our side after the intense 10 days that was SXSW 2011, I asked DN friend Andrew Johnson, host

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