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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, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN303: Leviathan Ages – Jon Yeo

It’s been 6 years since London director Jon Yeo last joined us on the DN podcast, but we won’t hold it against him as he’s back today with his new film

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Asides, Music Video

Patrick Wolf: The Libertine

Released in association with Madonna’s Art For Freedom project, Matt Lambert’s powerfully evocative film for Patrick Wolf’s reimagining of

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Art & Fashion

Frank Briffa Channels Loss into Visceral Slow Motion Short ‘Followroadfindlight’

So you get your hands on a Sony FS700 and fancy putting it through its high speed paces. Do you: a) Head to the nearest skate park for some speed-ramped

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Max Cooper: Fragments of Self

3D Organic structures give abrupt way to manic angular shapes in Animator/Graphic Designer Nick Cobby’s music video for Max Cooper’s new track

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Asides, Documentary

Sonidos Del Distrito

Commissioned by Random Acts, Nanda Fernandez Brédillard set out on a day long journey into the streets of Mexico City to capture an visual and auditory

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Live Action

A Father & Son Find Themselves Emotional Light-Years Apart in ‘Mission’

In Mark Buchanan’s previous short The Search, a lonely man fastidiously studied the heavens in the hope of making contact. Maintaining his narrative gaze

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Asides, Music Video

Washed Out: All I Know

When the girl you love cuts you loose and shacks up with some older guy, the only thing to do is hit the road with your best buddy and try to put the miles

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Animation, Asides

Thoka Maer’s Beautifully Minimalistic Animations

German filmmaker Thoka Maer creates short films which are minimalistic in every beautiful sense of the word, just try not to blink or you might miss something.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Rhys Bevan Grows a Surreal Piece of 3D Animation ‘Underfoot’

Billed as a ‘concoction of horror, eroticism and haunted electronics’, Chicago filmmaker Rhys Bevan’s experimental 3D animation Underfoot sees a snaking

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Asides, Live Action

A Burden of Expectation

Visuals and voice over contrast elegantly in Michael Sugrue’s brief character study A Burden of Expectation.

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Asides, Documentary

Ai Pioppi

Fabrica document the lifelong passion of Bruno, a man who for the last 40 years has built swings, slides, seesaws, gyroscopes and roller-coasters as a means to

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Live Action

Alexander Newton Transports Us Back to Our Formative Years in Short ‘New Territory’

Do you remember those endless Summers as a kid when the days stretched out seemingly forever and you found yourself free from parental supervision, to explore

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