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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

Rutger Bregman on Radical Ideas and Why They Still Matter

Stephen McNally animates an extract of author/historian Rutger Bregman’s talk for The RSA on our need to employ utopian thinking to enact social change.

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Animation, Premiere

A Man Searches for the Spark to Reignite His Lust for Life in Award-Winning Animation ‘A Little Grey’

Making its online premiere today, we speak to Simon Hewitt & Steve Smith about sweetening pathos with comedy in their animated short 'A Little Grey'.

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Asides, Documentary

Toyota – Start Your Impossible: Dergin Tokmak

Adi Halfin tells the story of world renowned breakdancer Dergin Tokmak, a paralyzed acrobat who has developed a unique style of dancing on crutches.

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Asides, Live Action

Baptism

Martin de Thurah’s trailer for Far Cry 5 prelude short 'Inside Eden’s Gate' provides a compelling glimpse into a rural America ruled by a violent cult.

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Asides, Music Video

Carnage & Steve Aoki: Plur Genocide (ft. Lockdown)

A set of tooled up, tattooed cherubs shake off their angelic stereotypes in The Sacred Egg’s celestial Renaissance styled brawl music video.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Anton Oak: Legacy (ft. Loïc Fleury)

David Pagaille conjures up a mysterious world of strange beings in his transfixing black & white music video for Anton Oak’s 'Legacy'.

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Asides, Live Action

Fast and Loose

Whitmer Thomas directs and stars in this tale of a young man quick to hand out uninvited advice, yet slow in all matters of introspection.

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Asides, Music Video

Set Mo: Nightmares

James Chappell visualises the debilitating effect of an anxiety attack in his heightened dance promo for Set Mo track 'Nightmares'.

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Step Into the Dark World of Tattoo Artist João Bosco in Autobahn’s ‘Skulls Snakes and the Flower of Death’

We speak to Autobahn about snakes, skulls & the flesh sacrifice made for their lyrical portrait of the alluringly dark world of tattoo artist João Bosco.

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Asides, Live Action

Ghosted

In Neville Pierce's charming short, Alice Lowe shines as a window whose attempts to find love are continuously thwarted by the ghost of her dead husband.

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Asides, Live Action

Pretext

Minhal Baig's 'Pretext' sees a young woman grapple with the emotional consequences of sexual assault as she attempts to confront the man who raped her.

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Asides, Live Action

Between the Lines

Kieran Thompson demonstrates the power of authenticity over pre-date social media stalking in his downright charming first date short 'Between the Lines'.

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