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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

Parker Hill Taps Into the Intangible Quality of Nostalgia in Fashion Dance Short ‘Love, Otisville’

A group of friends explore their their old stomping grounds with laughs and bittersweet nostalgia in Parker Hill's fashion dance short 'Love, Otisville'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Jan Roth: Glühwürmchen

German visual artist Marcel Vockrodt animates a playful geometric dance in this music video for the soothing sounds of Jan Roth's 'Glühwürmchen'.

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Animation, Asides

Lucinate: Big Noise

Nine different animators combine forces in this exquisite corpse music video created for new Lucinate track, 'Big Noise'.

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Live Action, Premiere

Buried Treasure Sends an Iranian Village Into a Spiral of Death & Deception in Roozbeh Misaghi’s ‘Turquoise’

Roozbeh Misaghi joins DN with 'Turquoise', his allegorical story about a remote Iranian village which descends into deception, death and double-dealing.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Young

Manchester filmmaker Charlie Watts interrogates what it means to be part of the swipe generation in stylish short film 'Young'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Encyclophilia

Andrew B. Myers runs though a bevy of pulse racing, obscure fetishes for Phile Magazine in his A-Z celebration of kink, 'Encyclophilia'.

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Live Action

Felipe Vellas Highlights the Crucial Work of Médecins du Monde in Hard Hitting #ShutUpDeath Campaign Promo

Brazilian director Felipe Vellas pulls no punches in his hard hitting, visceral short film for Médecins du Monde’s #shutupdeath campaign.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

La Bomba

In a single fabulously continuous shot Gordon von Steiner takes in the beauty of Jacquemus’ Spring/Summer 2018 collection in fashion short La Bomba.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

A Prickly Subject

Helen Plumb's poetic all female collaborative short 'A Prickly Subject' questions the pervasive pressure on women to remove their body hair.

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Documentary, Live Action

Sam Ashby Reflects on the 1960s Fight for Gay Equality in Documentary/Drama Hybrid ‘The Colour of His Hair’

Sam Ashby discusses blending documentary, drama and a forgotten unrealised script for his impressionistic meditation on queer life in 1960s Britain.

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Animation, Asides

Gabrielle: An animated film for CHANEL

Cara Delevingne stars as a skateboarding, bag loving, Parisian in Shishi Yamazaki's gorgeous animated film for CHANEL’s Gabrielle bag campaign.

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Live Action

Plans for a Night of Debauchery Go off the Rails in Joel Jay Blacker’s Awkward Orgy Short ‘Let’s Do

Director Joel Jay Blacker discusses mining the premise of an ill-conceived orgy amongst friends for comedy gold in his ensemble short, 'Let’s Do It'.

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