Author

About the Author /

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.

Music Video

TO GUYS Introduce Us to the Darkly Seductive Delights of Love and Violence in Baustelle’s ‘Amanda Lear’

Directing duo TO GUYS journey through a nightclub charged with sexual desire and romantic betrayal for Baustelle's latest music video.

Read more

Documentary, Music Video

From Townships to Taxis – Tommaso Cassinis Charts the Evolution of the Gqom Music Scene in ‘Woza Taxi’

Tommaso Cassinis heads to South Africa to document the little known origins of a musical movement which has swept across the international dance scene.

Read more

Animation

Desire, Ruthlessness and a Complete Loss of Control Run Riot in Jakob Schmidt’s Dark Fairytale ‘Planemah’

A megalomaniacal king chases the secrets of the universe and existence in Jakob Schmidt’s dark allegorical animation about desire, ruthlessness and greed.

Read more

Music Video

Ryan Staake Spins Music Video Gold from Young Thug’s No-Show Shoot Disaster in ‘Wyclef Jean’

Ryan Staake turns Young Thug's shoot ruining no show into a skewering commentary on the process of music video production in hilarious promo 'Wyclef Jean'.

Read more

Animation

Experience the Agony of Trying and Failing at Sports in Alan Jennings ‘Going Through the Motions’

Gym class can be tough. Someone is bound to lose an eye. Alan Jennings brings back the painful memories of forced exercise in his hand-drawn animation.

Read more

Live Action

Lines of Racial Division Are Tentatively Crossed in Marc Fouchard’s Oscar Shortlisted ‘The Way of Tea’

Marc Fouchard confounds expectations of racial violence when a young skinhead enters a Muslim store in his perennially timely Oscar shortlisted film.

Read more

Art & Fashion

Christopher Brooks Births Distant Planets in a Glass of Water for Macroscopic Short ‘Five Blue Planets’

Visual effects free, Christopher Brooks' new macroscopic experimental short transforms inks, paints, oils and water into distant pacific planets.

Read more

Documentary

Cath Le Couteur Investigates the Fascinatingly Dangerous World of Space Junk in ‘Adrift’

Shooting People co-founder Cath Le Couteur investigates the 17,000mph threats hurtling around Earth's atmosphere in space junk documentary ‘Adrift’.

Read more

Live Action

Juanjo Giménez Reveals Secret Connections Between the CCTV Scan Lines in Palme d’Or Winning Short ‘Timecode’

Free expression and human connections subvert the authoritarian nature of CCTV in Juanjo Giménez's Palme d'or winning, Oscar contending short film.

Read more

Animation, Music Video

Shadow Puppets Play Amongst the Stars in Aćim Vasić & Emilee Seymour’s ‘Notre Vie Comme Un Western’

Aćim Vasić & Emilee Seymour animate a romance amongst the stars of celestial proportions in their cosmic shadow puppet music video for Paris Combo.

Read more

Art & Fashion, Documentary

Anders Lönnfeldt Exposes the Analogue Poetry of Christoffer Relander’s ‘Jarred & Displaced’ Photo Series

Anders Lönnfeldt takes us behind the scenes of experimental photographer Christoffer Relander's 'bottled' landscape series 'Jarred & Displaced'.

Read more

Documentary, Music Video

Remembering the Sewol Ferry Accident Victims in Nils Clauss’ Cross-Over Documentary ‘Last Letters’

Director & Visual Artist Nils Clauss commemorates the victims of Korea's tragic Sewol ferry accident in transcendental documentary 'Last Letters'.

Read more