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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

Pollen

A young astronaut finds that Pollen is both the solution and cause of his life threatening problems on a strange alien planet in Jeremy Bondy’s charming

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Animation

Weird Dreams

Rest assured, no matter how bizarre your cheese induced night time reveries may be, they’re nothing compared to Jose Miguel Méndez’s Weird Dreams.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN294: Social Butterfly – Lauren Wolkstein

Recently crowded as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2013, director Lauren Wolkstein’s creative body of work, whilst broad

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Animation

The Introspective Tentacle-Alien

Pull up a couch whilst animator Christian Schlaeffer takes The Introspective Tentacle-Alien on a pulsating (that’s a warning for epileptics), spinning

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Art & Fashion

Cocoon

Originally commissioned by the Casino Helsinki for display on its large scale public screen, Petri Ruikka’s now stand alone short Cocoon, shows a

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Animation

Agent Carter Title Sequence

If you’re busy kicking arse and taking names in your very own Marvel Studios “One Shot” short, then you’re gonna want to make sure

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Phil France: Transition

Sit back, roll down the windows and get ready to take a strange trip with director Samuel Craven, as he puts Google Streetview and code from Ryan Alexander to

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Asides, Live Action

Explosions

Australian director Christopher Frey crafts an ominous tale of end of days proportions in his haunting 6 minute short Explosions.

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Animation

Gut Feeling

Food experimentation gets creative, and more than a little freaky, in Gut Feeling from 3rdeye Design.

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Animation, Music Video

John Mayer: Submarine Test January 1967

We were already mightily impressed with Italian director Virgilio Villoresi’s hands on approach to filmmaking after his previous films Fine &

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Animation

Paper Boy

In Parachute Parachute’s animated short Paper Boy, a discarded cyclist makes a bid for freedom from the analogue to the digital world.

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Live Action

Glance

Have you ever caught a strangers eye and wondered… what if? Conkerco (Chris Rule and Ben White) pour their dual talents into Glance, a story of that

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