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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, Asides

Words Unspoken

A boy struggles with the emotional debris of relationships as he navigates Athens’ exotic streets in Jordi Estrada's fashion short for Hercules Universal.

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Asides, Music Video

Elliot Moss: 99

A couple wavers between reality & a land of memories following a motorcycle accident in Masaki Shimeno's atmospheric music video for Elliot Moss' ‘99’.

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Animation, Asides

Love is Love

Composed of contributions from 120 artists, Kyra Bartley's 'Love is Love' celebrates the diverse range of permutations of this most universal of emotions.

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Live Action

A Man is Forced to Confront His Past Behaviour in Ryan Oksenberg’s Unnerving Short ‘Damage Control’

Ryan Oksenberg explains how location and cinematography combined with choreographed performance for his dark tale of buried guilt and overdue comeuppance.

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Live Action

A Glimpse of Heaven

A man finds himself transformed into digital form by means of a dark and weird cyber-ritual in Loïc Foulon’s glitch filled journey of rebirth.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Boy Fights the Stigma of Cowardice After Refusing an Invitation to Manhood in Phil Giordano’s ‘SUPOT’

DN speaks to director Phil Giordano about drawing on Filipino tradition and besting inaccessible locations for his coming of age short 'SUPOT'.

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Asides, Music Video

Ina Wroldsen: Sea

Thor Brenne awakens a lethal water creature of Scandinavian folklore in his forbidding dance music video for Ina Wroldsen’s ethereal track, 'Sea'.

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Animation, Asides

Kali Mata

The British Indian Army does animated battle with the last representatives of ancient stranglers assassin’s brotherhood, the Thugs in grad short Kali Mata.

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Music Video

Lado Kvataniya Conjures Up an Exquisitely Dark World Devoid of Verbal Communication in ‘Orpheus’

Suffused with an arrestingly impressive visual aesthetic, Lado Kvataniya’s 'Orpheus' conjures up a dark futuristic world devoid of verbal communication.

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Asides, Music Video

DJ Snake: Magenta Riddim

Gal Muggia & Vania Heymann deliver a rollocking tale of superstar Indian firefighters in this grin inducing promo for DJ Snake’s 'Magenta Riddim'.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

A Sequence of Statements

Pablo Alfieri shows perfection the finger in 'A Sequence of Statements', his 3D reflection on the eternal & infinite feeling of being stuck in a loop.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

How to Turn Your Friends Into Furniture

Oriol Barberà Masats provides a practical solution for how to put your ex-friends to good use in surreal short 'How to Turn Your Friends Into Furniture'.

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