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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.

Animation, Podcasts

DN073: Moros Eros: On My Side – Jesse Ewles

I first discovered the work of director and artist Jesse Ewles last year when I stumbled across the video he created for Grizzly Bear track Central and Remote.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN072: 8 – Benjamin Ducroz

Artist and director Benjamin Ducroz has in the past associated his work with media bondage and saturation, he joins us this week to discuss his improvised

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN071: Good Copy Bad Copy – Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen & Henrik Moltke

Ralf Christensen joins us this week to discuss his film Good Copy Bad Copy – co-directed with Andreas Johnsen and Henrik Moltke – a documentary

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News

Site Redesign

OK, so I posted this thought out loud several hours back, then due to the utter dreadfulness that was Celebrity Dance on Ice or something like that –

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN070: Routes – Alex Reuben

As part of my CINECITY ’07 Film Festival coverage I caught up with DJ and director Alex Reuben at South East Dance’s Dance For Camera launch to

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Article

MarBelle 2007 Top Ten

Why do I feel the unhealthy, compulsion to spend days obsessing over what 10 out of the 123 films I watched this year (told you I was obsessive!) were my

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN069: Somewhere, Anywhere – Chris Dundon

Today’s guest Chris Dundon not only comes highly recommended by our friends Justin and Neil over at Filmstock, but was part of the crew on Justin’s

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN068 – SICK – Mike Rymer

Mike Rymer joins us to discuss his short film ‘SICK’, which explores the rarely openly discussed problem of depression and the life altering

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Animation, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN067: Four Eyed Monsters – Arin Crumley & Susan Buice

Along with the great selection of films you’d expect to see, the Times BFI 51st London Film Festival, presented Power to the Pixel – The Digital

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News

The West Side Back…Again

I’m not sure what happened to my first post about this as the internet trolls appear to have eaten it, but suffice to say I was very witty and heaped

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Podcasts

DN066: Happy Monday – Andrew Filippone Jr

If you’re of the view that after just over 100 years of existence the form of film is a locked down certainty, my guest Andrew Filippone Jr’s piece

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN065: _grau – Robert Seidel

Whilst many filmmakers fall in to the trap of creating pretty pictures for their own sake, the best artists produce films in which each frame is infused with

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