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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.

Asides, Documentary

An Unfair Game

With lucrative TV deals hitting record highs year on year, swelling football club coffers alongside their other revenue streams, it seems perplexingly unfair

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Live Action

Experimentation Becomes an Examination of the Importance of Human Connection in Alex Bohs’ ‘MUM’

One of the most inspiring things about filmmaking is that alongside the projects which you obsess over and nurture for years, sometimes come films which appear

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Art & Fashion

Step Inside Tim Plester’s JFK Assassination Memento Mori ‘Et In Motorcadia Ego!’

As you’ll no doubt be aware from the slew of programmes commemorating, analysing and dramatising the tragic event, November 22nd 2013 marked the 50th

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Asides, Music Video

Femme En Fourrure: Pretty Boy

If this year’s onslaught of twerking rears got to be a little too much for you then you may well want to skip the gyration packed promo from Miikka Lommi

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Pseudopodium

We’ve featured the work of Polish director Alan Kępski before and back then I found it hard to put into words exactly what it was about his visuals that

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Music Video

ALB’s ‘Whispers’ Transforms the Music Promo into an Interactive Trojan Horse of Surprises

If you took the Luna Brothers’ Girls, mashed it together with the persistent bunny boiler aspects of Basic Instinct and then took a match to your life, that

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Asides, Live Action

Status Update – A Facebook Fairytale

Imagine if all those aspirational activities you plug into your status update came true as soon as you hit enter? Austrailian director Daniel Reisinger takes

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN306: Floating Skyscrapers – Tomasz Wasilewski

Taking the festival circuit by storm, Tomasz Wasilewski’s second feature Floating Skyscrapers, tackles the themes of searching for one’s true identity and

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Live Action

Kickstart Mark Jenkin’s 16mm Featurette ‘Bronco’s House’

Mark Jenkin on 'Bronco’s House', a 16mm experimental narrative featurette about one man’s quest for a roof created in adherence with the SLDG13 manifesto.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Tropicalia

Kristel Van De Kamp finds herself lost in a paradise that’s not for her in Iñaki San Juan’s fashion film Tropicalia.

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Animation, Asides

#CursingCandy

The melding together of some of your favourite chocolate bars could yield a taste sensation or, as in Lee Hardcastle’s #CursingCandy, an unrepeatable

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Art & Fashion

FLORIS+MENNO Stop Over Thinking Things & Dive Out of Their Comfort Zone in ‘The Rapid Eye’

In experimental art and fashion film The Rapid Eye directing duo FLORIS+MENNO embraced their need to experiment with fragmented narrative, practical effects

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