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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

The Guardians Tale

A lonely, fearsome monster finds its friendship with a little girl turns out to be not quite as it seems in Queensland College of Art animated graduation short

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN301: The Gift – Ralf Demesmaeker

Inspired by Chelsea Wolfe track Pale on Pale, Ralf Demesmaeker’s haunting short The Gift explores the complex relationship formed by a boy with the power

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Kaly Live Dub: Allaxis

A man on the run sees his passenger seat play host to a morphing parade of increasingly bizarre passengers as he attempts to outrun his guilt in Wasaru’s

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Animation

Jon Dunleavy Composes an Animated Ballad of Mobile Phone Promiscuity in ‘Obsolescence in Love’

Presuming you’re not currently reading this on a miniature screen, I’m betting that you’re no more than 30 minutes from your last interaction

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

X (Festival Version)

Do you remember when Max Hattler demonstrated that he didn’t even need a screen on which to animate and that a man of his talents could do just fine by

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Animation, Asides

For the Love of Mountains

If like us, you have a jonesing for data visualisation (it’s a real addiction, ok!) then motion graphics designer Al Boardman has just what you need with

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Asides, Music Video

M+A & Rino Stefano Tagliafierro

We featured the disquieting work of Italian director Rino Stefano Tagliafierro earlier this year with Rockers, but it would appear that we didn’t reach

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Documentary

Novemba Document Jason Rock’s New Start Through Boxing

Blair Macdonald & Oliver Clark, collectively known as Novemba, present the powerful story of Jason Rock; a man who after taking many wrong turns in his

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Art & Fashion

ISHIKO

Dressed flawlessly in Azzedine Alaia, model Ginta Lapina takes a bold leap into the manga infused world of Santiago & Mauricio’s ISHIKO.

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Asides, Live Action

Unbovine Yourself

Mankind devolves into a homogenise soup of slaves to groupthink, stifling any opportunity for originality or creativity in Ian Ruschel’s fantastically

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Asides, Music Video

Keep Shelly In Athens: Recollection

A woman moves through a derelict school inhabited by gigantic etherial bubbles (all real, not CGI) in Recollection, a music video about letting go from the

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Animation, Asides

Eau Vive

Created over 3 months whilst at La Poudrière animation school, Mary Oldlife beautifully animates a young girl’s perspective of a family trip to the

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