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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, Music Video

Ambrose Yalley

I’ve fallen head over heels in love with the lo-fi, beautifully ramshackle, figure it out yourself approach to music promos from Ambrose Yalley. I know

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Music Video

Jaydiohead: Ignorant Swan Medley

Nice to see Jason Cacioppo take it back to the basics of the track, the moves and the cinematography, for Max Tannone’s Jaydiohead mashup.

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News

Oh Vincent!

It’s a non too well kept secret round here that El Vez and I often get into tussles over who has the bigger man-crush on Vincent Gallo. The man is a

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Live Action

A Thousand Words

Next time time you share a fleeting moment of connection with a stranger, go for it.

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Animation

Light Warfare

Ex-pro Guitar Hero Freddie Wong gets his Pikapika war on. Here’s the Behind the Scenes video and if you’re feeling inspired, Freddie’s been

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN169: Men Who Swim – Dylan Williams

The term ‘midlife crisis’ conjures images of needless purchases of flash cars, dating people half your age and of course, synchronised swimming?

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Animation

Death Penalty

As well as being one the most important organisations in existence, in recent years Amnesty International have become masters at using visual media to raise

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Animation

MARS!

8-bit man heads out to boldly exploit where no man has exploited before.

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Film Festival, News

onedotzero Call for Entries

onedotzero’s Adventures in Motion film festival will be hitting the BFI Southbank in November (10th-14th) before setting out on its global tour. However,

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Live Action

The Girl with the Yellow Stockings

When you ask someone to marry you this probably isn’t the reaction you hope for. I do love the way Grzegorz Muskala and DoP Phillip Kaminiak work in

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Documentary

Mourning Glory

It’s been a while since Rupert James joined us with his discombobulated salary man of A Pickled Sunday, but boy has he got serious since then. Through

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN168: Legend: a film about Greg Garing – Emily Branham

Few people are as qualified to make a judgment call as to a film’s quality as a fellow filmmaker; so when Jeanie Finlay suggested I take a look at Emily

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