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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

I Met a Robot at a Ballet Once

A robot and an artist discuss the big questions of the human condition in Isabela Dos Santos’ existential animated storybook poem I Met a Robot at a

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Caballo Negro

Tuixén Benet corrals a synchronised trio of ballerinas through a fantastically choreographed routine into a light enclosure for Les filles Föllen’s

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Asides, Music Video

London Grammar: Nightcall

André Chocron and London Grammar join forces for a mightily impressive video to accompany the group’s soulful cover of Kavinsky’s Nightcall.

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Animation, Asides

Happiness is Movement

A mere week and we’re back once again praising the work of Nexus director Johnny Kelly. This time it’s because he’s put a massive smile on

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN305: Vatten – Niclas Larsson

In Swedish director Niclas Larsson's debut short Vatten, a lonely girl discovers a mysterious unconditional love during a late night swim. Niclas joins us to

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Animation, Asides

Don’t Fear Death

Rik Mayall voices Louis Hudson’s joyously animated celebration of leaving it all behind for the final embrace of the Grim Reaper in the short Don’t

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Documentary

S O U T H P A W

Bryan Schlam take us inside the mental ring of boxer Stray and the mindset which enables him to keep getting up when the punches begin to fly, in short

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Asides, Live Action

The Runaway

Well deserving of the plaudits it’s received on the festival circuit, Victor Carrey’s The Runaway is a stunning cascade of Rube Goldbergesque

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Asides, Music Video

Tropic: Spread Your Love

Director Michael Venus and Tropic get it on in the dark for their lip melding Spread Your Love promo.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Fortunes

If you’ve found the world settling in to some kind of coherent, predictable pattern since experiencing Chapter 1 of Greg Barth’s Essays On Reality

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Beats Antique: Beelzebub

Ivan Landau directs some seriously strange claymation from Webster Colcord for Beats Antique’s Beelzebub featuring the one and only Les Claypool.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

She Said, She Said

Featuring Marisa Tomei and Elodie Bouchez balanced precariously on the precipice of an acrimonious split whilst taking cutting jibes at each other, Stuart

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