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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, Asides

Selfridges and Sustainability

Dirs. Anna Ginsburg & Hannah Jacobs celebrate the range of sustainability initiatives Selfridges employs in this charming hand drawn, 2D animated short.

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Animation, Asides

Tampon

Brooklyn-based visual artist Alexandra Neuman explores the metaphorical significance of the tampon in her playful animated short film.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Spirit

Dillon M. Banda's contemplative short celebrates the human spirit as it follows a community of nuns and monks as they prepare for a major ceremony.

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Asides, Live Action

Kayla in 1A

Travis Wood’s 'Kayla in 1A' charmingly recreates the time the director spent living with a mysterious and decidedly strange, bone boiling housemate.

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Asides, Music Video

PRO8L3M: Flary

Piotrek Matejkowski’s 'Flary' for PRO8L3M is an impressive temporal triptych music video following a man who desperately wants to kill himself.

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Asides, Music Video

Tversky: 1985

A girl falls into a mysterious trip through a magical camcorder into a past that never was in Ferran Capo’s retro-styled promo for Tversky’s '1985'.

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Take a Dreamy Voyage to Eternity in Carles Pons Altimira’s Haunting ‘Lust Des SchöPfers’

Carles Pons Altimira and Marina Rubio join DN to discuss collaborating with instrumental rock band Volans on otherworldly art film Lust des Schöpfers.

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Asides, Music Video

Tiwayo: Wild

A pair of adolescents hit the road in a bid to escape their abusive lives in Filip Zaluska's gorgeous music video for Tiwayo's debut single, 'Wild'.

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Live Action

A Woman Bares Her Heart in a Painfully Awkward Declaration of Love in ‘Just Tell Him How You Feel’

Asking the question "how honest is too honest?", 'Just Tell Him How You Feel' sees an unreciprocated declaration of love turn hilariously gruesome.

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Asides, Documentary

The Creativity Delusion Part 2: We’re All Geniuses

Copy-Me‘s The Creativity Delusion mini-series hits its midpoint with a deep dive into our equally shared capacity for genius in 'We’re All Geniuses'.

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Live Action

Childhood Innocence Meets the Parental Nightmare of the Public Restroom from Hell in Bryan Campbell’s ‘Big Boy’

Director Bryan Campbell returns to DN with a palpitation-inducing young boy’s solo trip to the public restroom from hell, in comedy shot 'Big Boy'.

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Animation, Asides, Live Action, Music Video

Rone: Wave (Feat. Noga Erez)

A virtual hook up falls foul to spotty internet connections & the freemium upsell model in Greg Barth’s worryingly relatable 'Wave' music video for Rone.

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