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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.

Asides, Music Video

I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper: Amsterdamned

I have it on good authority from I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper that your boyfriend doesn’t love you anymore. Oh well, at least you’ll have Teemu

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Art & Fashion

Vans Girls Fall 2011 Collection

Continuing on from yesterday’s 7d + Twixtor time manipulation combo, here’s what director Kyle Alexander and cinematographer Greg Ephraim achieved

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Art & Fashion

7D 1000 fps

If you already thought the 7D shot nice images then you’re gonna be pretty smitten with Oton Bačar’s slow motion BMX test footage. Apparently some

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Live Action

The Hangover

Someday you can realize that everything is wrong. NSFW due to scenes of a human nature. https://vimeo.com/18237248

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Music Video

Oval: Ah!

Isabelle Rune brings Walter Bickmann’s choreography to elegant life in Darko Dragicevic’s promo from Oval’s Ah!.

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Art & Fashion

Kristy, Jenny, Rebecca, Melissa & Sara

I’m totally loving these portrait pieces from Joe Wehner. Sometimes NSFW but always beautifully composed and lit, the varying soundtracks and

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Animation, Music Video

Robin Leduc: Laissez moi passer

A spot of stop motion, urban skiing from La Maison Démontable.

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Art & Fashion

Blink

An art film about friendship in this world from Miikka Lommi. https://vimeo.com/12534077

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Documentary, Live Action, Podcasts

DN184: The Adults in the Room – Andy Blubaugh

Included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2007 25 New Faces of Independent Film list, director Andy Blubaugh has made a name for himself with a personalised

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Animation

Indians

Louise Cailliez’s Indians blends handmade animation techniques with a warm narration, to evoke the shift from Summer to Autumn.

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Animation

Giant Episode 2 Sun

Back in June El Vez introduced us to Celine&Yann’s animated Giant series. Well I’m happy to say that episode 2 is now with us and features The

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Music Video

Serena-Maneesh: D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D.

Really strange romance kidnap piece with hints of Funny Games and District 9 from Kristoffer Borgli for Serena-Maneesh’s D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D.. Would have

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