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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.

Music Video

While You Slept: Havoc

We’ve enjoyed watching André Chocron play with time for Mikhael Paskalev and track through strange situations for Cold Mailman. Now he plays with slow

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Animation

Trolley Boy

In Finnish director Teemu Auersalo’s stylised animation, a Trolley Boy attempts to break up the monotony of his job only to find that his method of

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Animation, Asides

The Chase

Rok Predin of Trunk has crafted the most surreal of car chases, and I’m betting you won’t be able to tear your eyes away from it.

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Music Video

Jackson Scott: That Awful Sound

Flowers are plucked, innocence dies and guilt takes hold in nautico’s psychedelic accented promo for Jackson Scott track That Awful Sound. After

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Music Video

The Civil Wars: The One That Got Away

Tom Haines provides a shotgun seat on an epic journey, riding the rails cross country and living every minute of it in The One That Got Away for The Civil

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Documentary, Music Video

Moss: Tiny Love

Victor Vroegindeweij packs emotion into his music video documentary Tiny Love, which follows leading female MMA fighter Marloes Coenen as she trains for a big

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Art & Fashion

Kubatek 2013

The bold, geometric cuts and shapes of Polish fashion house Kubatek combine with the creative eye of director, animator and motion designer Szymon Pawlik for a

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Animation, Asides

Like A Lunatic

Sean Pecknold offers sage advice for a fulfilled life in his motivational PSA from the future, Like A Lunatic.

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Art & Fashion

Make Your Maker

Australian body architect and director Lucy McRae explores the inextricable link between food and the body in her disturbing experimental short Make Your

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Music Video

Placebo: Too Many Friends

Saman Kesh invites you to test your powers of observation and deduction in his brilliantly analytical promo for new Placebo track Too Many Friends. So, did you

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Music Video

Alan Masferrer Creates a Beautifully Strange Promo for Maps’ ‘A.M.A.’

A city is struck down with an unexplained sleeping sickness until a mysterious force emerges from the trees to revive them in Alan Masferrer’s promo for

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Music Video

Arctic Monkeys: Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

Nabil directs Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner through a bleary eyed stumble back from the pub, punctuated by NSFW flights of sexual fancy in Why’d You

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