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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

Take Two Trips to the Animated Playground

Inspired by his daughter, New York director Tom Yaniv takes the impassioned 5 More Minutes plea which has hounded parents for time immemorial and places us

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Asides, Music Video

Paperworks.: terror.exe

Images glitch, tear, judder and generally behave unruly in Eduardo H Obieta’s eye-catching experimental promo for Paperworks.’s bleep fuelled track

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Asides, Music Video

Rue Royale: Set Out to Discover

Anglo-American duo Rue Royale rejoin forces with German director Stephane Leonard for Set Out to Discover, the latest, haunting track from the band’s

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Animation, Asides

TEDxTaipei 2013 Flip

Created for TEDxTaipei, Keng-Ming Liu’s 2013 Flip is a beautifully elegant dance of colour and shapes. “Six geometric icons represent the six themes

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Asides, Live Action

Echoes

We still have a bit of a wait to see the fruits of DN alumnus director Rob Brown’s successfully crowdfunded feature Sixteen, but you can get a further

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Art & Fashion, Asides

En Puntas

In this tense extract from Barcelona artist Javier Pérez’s video installation piece En Puntas, dancer Amélie Ségarra in kitchen knife tipped pointe

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Animation, Asides

Sleep Walk

A prophet of doom finds happiness in the final moments of the world in the impressive animated short Sleep Walk from directorial duo Hey Beautiful Jerk (Mark

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Awards, Live Action, Podcasts

DN298: Orbit Ever After – Jamie Stone

Employing inventive uses of practical effects, Jamie Stone’s Sci-Fi short Orbit Ever After tells the story of two star crossed lovers attempting to bridge

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Asides, Music Video

Five Knives: Vive le Roi

Things get extremely freaky at a dinner party when a troubled girl pitches a supernatural fit in Ace Norton’s Vive le Roi promo for Five Knives.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Ezra Vine: Celeste

Robert Wallace directs a beautifully animated trek through nature to the sounds of Ezra Vine’s Celeste.

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Animation, Asides

The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & 3/4

Charming, funny and sad all at once, a lonely bachelor lays his heart on the line in Steve Baker’s fantastic short The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray,

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Asides, Music Video

Record

Wriggles & Robins provide a genius, rotating ‘record’s eye view’ of lives soundtracked by Amateur Best’s Be Happy for The Lincoln

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