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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

A Girl Like Me

I recently watched Chris Rock’s feature doc Good Hair, which was apparently prompted into being when his daughter asked, “Daddy, how come I

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Asides, Documentary

Robbie Cooper’s Immersion:Porn project

Robbie Cooper reveals what makes his filmed “through the screen” porn enthusiast subjects tick.

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Animation

Seeking You

Jean-Julien Pous’ love letter to Hong Kong.

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Animation

Au Bout Du Rouleau

Artaban & Mandri put 250 rolls of toilet paper to good use in Au Bout Du Rouleau.

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN165: Bodies – Sam Norton

All film projects experience difficulties to varying degrees, the test for filmmakers is what they do when they hit these challenges. With Bodies director Sam

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Animation, Asides

Crash Bang Wallow

Jon Dunleavy and Keith Wilson-Signer animate the tragic tale of out of step ex-stuntman Larry LeTan and his fight to find a place in the modern world.

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Documentary

Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age

For their Intellectual Property in the Digital Age final project, Yale students Jacob Albert, Ryan Beauchamp and Brendan Schlagel created the 24 minute

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News

The Creators Project

The Creators Project is what you get when you mash-up Vice, Intel and 80+ talented, creative, boundary pushing artists from music, art, film, design and

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Art & Fashion

Super Sexy CPR

Anyone struggling to impart information to a lackluster audience may want to take a leaf out of Fortnight Lingerie’s book, as they spice up the

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Animation, Music Video

Alex Gopher: The Child

I love motion graphics. If you can throw shapes, words, colours and textures around the screen in an interesting way, I’ll gladly give you my undivided

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Love & Theft

A description of ‘trippy’ falls so short as a description of Andreas Hykade’s journey through cartoon history in Love & Theft. Dim the

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Article

Moviemaker’s 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen

Time is short, so if you had to boil all the film podcasts vying for your attention down to a perfect 10, then the 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen list in the

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