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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, Music Video

Mirza Talovic Drops the Digitalorigami Visuals

I know it’s Sunday and you’re trying to pull things back from a big weekend of non-stop partying ready for the working week ahead, but I think

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Animation

Borrowed Light

An apparently petty thief turns out to be working towards showing the city he pilfers something far more incredible than he took, in Olivia Huynh’s

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Animation

Bye Bye Bunny

When a global carrot crisis is sparked by the disappearance of the world’s rabbit population, a magician and his new chicken assistant try to make things

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Music Video

Portugal. The Man: Atomic Man

David Vincent Wolf and Portugal. The Man get freaky with portrait shots in their promo for Atomic Man.

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Animation, Music Video

Pjoni: Chasm

Jan Šrámek and Martin Búřil craft a perfectly surreal alien invasion promo for Pjoni’s haunting track, Chasm.

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Animation

Missing U

In her senior thesis film from the Ringling College of Art and Design, Missing U , Brooke Wagstaff crafts an inventive tale of I’s all encompassing

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Animation

My Keynote Address

Mike Brookes lays out the core brand values which guide his design work in an impressive flow of motion graphics in My Keynote Address.

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Documentary

Wonderland

We all want to be able to express ourselves and translate our creative visions into the flickering light we call cinema, but if you don’t plan to starve

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

A Poetic Tribute to the Shifting Form of Burlesque Performer Vicky Butterfly

Floating through your head like the final wisps of a fading dream or the uncanny tingle of an elusive, false memory just on the cusp of recollection, David

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Documentary

Terminal Bar

When we invited Stefan Nadelman to join us on the podcast back in 2008 for a chat about his debut music video Evil Bee, I simply couldn’t pass up the

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Animation

Metal Headzzz

Forged in the animation fires of hell for VH1 Classic by Aaron Stewart and Tim Harrington though Mixtape Club, Metal Headzzz is a comedy series which will

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Animation

Fragments

French animator Hugo Bravo puts together an impressive visually original chase sequence in which the fragile Fragments of reality form and dissipate in

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