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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.

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MarBelle Top Ten Feature Films of 2016

MarBelle stops with the handwringing and gets to ranking some of the quality cinema he watched in 2016 for his top ten features of the year list.

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Music Video

Your Gay Thoughts: Spitting Image

Matt Faller and Your Gay Thoughts juxtapose the egotistical yet self-reflective nature of the modern era in their kaleidoscopic music video.

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Music Video

Oliver: Electrify (ft. Scott Mellis)

Alan Masferrer closes out the year with a delightful slice of 80s reference fun in his retro stylised music video for Oliver's 'Electrify'.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN347: Chameleon – Jorge Riquelme Serrano

Jorge Riquelme Serrano shares how structured improvisation enabled him to shoot his uninvited guest psychological thriller feature debut in a mere 4 days.

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Art & Fashion

Better Together

Pablo Alfieri discusses his new handcrafted commercial spot for Hatsu and why he felt the need to strike out on his own again as a freelance director.

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Live Action

Where the Woods End

Felix Ahrens examines the destructive nature of guilt in his student Oscar winning short film about a police officer who fatally shoots an innocent man.

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Live Action

Journey to Ladakh

Nils Clauss and Neil Dowling show how technology and tradition go hand in hand in the remote Himalayan landscape in this compelling short for Samsung.

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Art & Fashion

Wheelchair Dance

Inspired by the wheelchair and contemporary dance, Yasuhiro Tamura's kinetic short challenges the notion that endeavour inevitably leads to reward.

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Animation, Music Video

Hundreds: What Remains

Lars Nagler explores the animated wonders of an alien macro-world in his computer generated music video for brother/sister twosome Hundreds.

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Art & Fashion

Andrew De Zen Shows Us How to Conquer Doubt & Fear to Break Through ‘The Wall’

Andrew De Zen returns to DN with the second part of his visual shorts trilogy - an exploration of perseverance and the many walls we face in our lives.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN345: The Eyes of My Mother – Nicolas Pesce

A young lonely woman is consumed by her deepest & darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life in Nicolas Pesce's horrifying debut feature.

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Music Video

Poom: Toi & Moi

Axel Courtière delves into the subconscious of a teen embarking on his 'first time' in a cosmically suggestive erotic odyssey of a music video for Poom.

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