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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

Joey Dosik: Don’t Want It To Be Over

A couple dances through their troubles in Tim Hendrix's whimsical music video for Joey Dosik's 'Don’t Want It To Be Over'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

One Minute of Miniatures

'One Minute of Miniatures' collates the very best of Clemens Wirth’s miniature work into a tantalisingly atmospheric snapshot of lives in motion.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

The Academics: Hit Radio Tune

Director Ynon Lan brings colourful New York summer vibes to his stylised rotoscoped music video for The Academics‘ 'Hit Radio Tune'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Common Ground

Kobi Vogman’s 'Common Ground' presents a disquieting cycle of creation and destruction as an imagined place of surreal imagination succumbs to a flood.

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Asides, Music Video

Michał Sobierajski & Suwal: Satelity

Dir. Monika Kmita turns her eye towards to the celestial in this sci-fi infused music video for Michał Sobierajski & Suwal collaboration track 'Satelity'.

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Live Action

A Violent Boxer Finds Salvation in a Vicious Thai Prison in Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’

Jean-Stephane Sauvaire talks to DN about 'A Prayer Before Dawn' the true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand’s most notorious jails.

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Asides, Live Action

Diagnosis

A secretive woman's buried feelings resurface, detonating an emotional bomb that shakes the foundations of her life in Eva Riley's gripping 'Diagnosis'.

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Asides, Music Video

Andrew De Zen Succumbs to the Siren Call of the Sea in ‘Skin’ for Alaskan Tapes’

An unfathomable event on a deserted beach is observed by a lone witness in 'Skin' - the 2nd part in Andrew De Zen's trilogy of Alaskan Tapes music videos.

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Asides, Music Video

Kobo: Baltimore

Felix Brady thrusts us into the centre of a ride along with French rapper Kobo and his crew as they roll through London in gritty music video 'Baltimore'.

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Documentary

Submerge Yourself in the Calming Waters of Community in Margate Tidal Pool Documentary ‘Taking the Waters’

Kathryn Ferguson & Anna Hart tell DN about the calming waters of community they found in an 80yr old Margate tidal pool for doc short 'Taking the Waters'.

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Asides, Live Action

Overtime

An overworked office worker has to make it home or risk exposing his co-workers to a deadly secret in Craig D. Foster’s horrifically fun short 'Overtime'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Breakbot: Another You

Olivier Lescot animates a sexy summer serenade of cosmic love for Breakbot/Ruckazoid pimping alter ego Breakazoid in stylish music video 'Another You'.

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