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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, Music Video

Jungle: Platoon

JLW-OHP does things right and has B-Girl Terra’s moves do the talking over long takes in this great breaking performance promo for Jungle’s

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Asides, Music Video

Kid Wise: Hope

Desire steadily gives way to a dangerous obsession which friendship can’t survive in Truman & Cooper’s (Jonathan Cohen & Anthony Jorge)

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Asides, Music Video

MGMT: Cool Song no. 2

Switching gears from the playful non sequiturs of their previous promo You Life is a Lie, MGMT team up with director Isaiah Seret to present a dark reality

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Animation, Asides

Luna Park

Inspired by Vertigo graphic novel Luna Park and in particular the drawing style of Croatian comic book artist Danijel Zezelj, Ernex (Ernesto Porto) put

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Animation

Take a Journey of Discovery with Manddy Wyckens on ‘The Longest Road’

Whilst it’s true that there’s a certain amount of satisfaction to be had from watching a film that delivers a conclusion in which questions are

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Asides, Music Video

The Muckers: Analogy Between Heart and Pump

20×20 directors Faraz Abasi and Amir Rad spin a nicely textured effects powered promo for The Muckers’ Analogy Between Heart and Pump.

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Animation, Asides

Endtrip

Prepare to take a bizarre ride into inner space as Koen de Mol, Olivier Ballast and Rick Franssen plunge us into the fantastical unconsciousness of a drug

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN299: Mae and Ash – Shuchi Talati

Developing from its humble beginnings as a directing/acting exercise into a fully blown film over several drafts, Shuchi Talati’s well observed short Mae and

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Danielle

Much as in life itself, Anthony Cerniello imperceptibly ages a girl to an old woman over 5 minutes in his triumph of SFX short Danielle.

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Animation, Asides

The Scarecrow

If last year’s Back to the Start ad from Chipotle didn’t get your emotions firing, then the massively upped stakes of their newest animation The

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Animation, Asides

NSPCC – Sally’s Story

Commissioned for the NSPCC, Eamonn O’Neil brings the saddening story of Sally – a girl bullied at school and unable to seek refuge in her

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Asides, Live Action

Long Days

It’s my firm opinion that the less you know about Adam Keleman’s alluringly strange short Long Days going in, the deeper you’ll fall under

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