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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.

Music Video

The Hundred in the Hands: Pigeons

Ever feel like you’re the only one not having fun at the party?

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Documentary

NEW BREED LOS ANGELES

As a site initially born out of our desire to expose the filmmaking process through the DN podcast interviews, we get all envious excited when we see other

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Animation

Key Lime Pie

Trevor Jimenez shows us the lengths a man will go to for a slice of heaven.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN176: Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer – Andrew W Jones

The comment “It was like watching a full length feature film on fast forward and only pausing at the good bits,” goes a long way to explaining the

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Documentary

Life of Leopold Trailer

Victor Solomon teases us with a trailer for his new project Life of Leopold, a behind-the-scenes documentary about Leopold Bonar, the world’s premiere

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Live Action

Pilgrimage

If you’re thinking about getting back in contact with that pre-college friend so you can hang out, take Christopher Bell and Ryan Sartor’s word for

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Animation

The PEN Story & PEN Giant

2009’s Olympus PEN Story isn’t the first time I’ve seen stop motion traveling photos, but it is probably the most impressive. Great work from

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Animation

New York to San Francisco in Stop Motion

Mike is the Guy Walks Across America guy. https://youtu.be/lzRKEv6cHuk

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Animation, Music Video

N.A.S.A.: Spacious Thoughts

How the hell has it taken me till now to see Fluorescent Hill totally own the animated music promo with N.A.S.A.’s Spacious Thoughts?!?

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Animation, Art & Fashion

The Tea Bag

In beautifully composed black and white stop motion, Bil Thompson answers the eternal question of Where do teabags go when they die? It’s also worth a

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN175: Skeletons – Nick Whitfield

Described as “A very British Ghostbusters”, Nick Whitfield’s debut feature Skeletons has been gathering mounting praise from critics and

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Animation, Music Video

Hoedown from Rodeo

A paper craft animation piece from Eleanor Stewart in the vein of last year’s Books Come to Life.

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