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Straight8 is a one of a kind film festival that “takes you back to the original medium of cinema ... and makes you think visually,” according to Alice Lowe. Together with Jacqueline Wright, Lowe directed 'Sticks and Balls' – their campy, tongue-in-cheek parody of golf culture was one of the highlights of Straight8 2007. The concept of Straight 8 is simple: Shoot a film using only one role of Super 8mm film, no editing (apart from in-camera) is allowed, send in the undeveloped film and your soundtrack to Straight8. If your film turns out great, it will be screened for the firtst time at Straight8, together with a packed audience.

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The progressive British DVD label C0C0S0L1DC1TY operates in the vanguard of the audiovisual arts. This label is not about eye candy alone. It's about fostering high brow collaborative projects between visual artists - animators, designers, filmmakers and the like - and (electronic) musicians that actually have something to say about the world we live in. Video and animation artist Graham  Clayton-Chance (directed videos for REM and Scissor Sisters) and electronic musician Ian Heywood are responsible for the 15th DVD release on the label. Under the Limmat moniker, they worked on a project titled 'Municipal 44' for no less than “3 years of sweat, toil and tears”. Watch track one here:

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Director Sandder’s fourth video for the brand-new band Lele. The art work for the video was done by another band member, who also happens to be one of the hippest illustrators in the Netherlands: Piet Parra. The result of the Sandder/Parra cooperation is an original, funny and raunchy animated video for a crazy track. Also worth mentioning: the other two band members are Serge Faberge (also known as the rapper from the best Dutch electro-hip-hop act De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (The Youth of Today) and Rimer London.

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Director Rogier van der Zwaag, describes his music video for Nobody Beats the Drum as dark and dirty. It sure looks like an icky place to be! NBTD is a Dutch breakbeat formation with a knack for word play and of course a talent for great electro beats. In fact, beats are the most important thing to them. Hence the name, which is really just very smart if you think about it. Their track, Quit Your Job, directed by Rogier, is disturbing, nightmare-ish and reminiscent of Chris Cunningham.

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Are we being visually abused or is Nils Muhlenbruch abusing the visual images? Maybe the images are about abuse? What ever the case, one cannot argue that the words "visual" and "buse" are sufficient to describe the content and maybe even the style of this short, but it is not enough to sum up the experience, which is best described as "overpowering, eclectic and maybe a little crazy". Nils uses bright colours, a mixed palette and some incredible imagery. Look out for the leek. For more information and more of Nils' work you can check out an interview Submarine did with Drifter TV and of course Drifter TV's very own website.

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Motomichi - our beloved master of primary colors white, black and red - did this new music video for Temposhark - an indie-electro band out of the UK. Temposhark just released this catchy yet tragic rock-pop-love song called Blame. Not that Motomichi's other stuff is all happy, happy, joy, joy, but this vid is one of his darker works, with spiders crawling from the eyes and a fatalistic jump from a high building.

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Sometimes old News is good news. This little fire cracker of a film, by the Amsterdam design collective News was first screened as an installation piece at an Amsterdam edition of the RESFest Digital Film Festival in 2005. You might want to see this, you might not. That sort of depends on if you are a serious sneaker fetishist, for whom this movie might be painful to watch. The pair of sneaks featured are the collectors item Air Jordans IV that took the world by storm back in 1989 and currently have a going rate of approximately $400. Whether or not this is a statement about our society being materialistic, it's as close to literally burning money as you can get. Figuratively speaking of course.

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For all of you concerned citizens out there, we now present to you a public information film about climate change and what YOU can do about it. Okay, we know your not used to this from Submarinechannel but believe us, this is worth. It has been directed and animated by Airside and commissioned by Live Earth. Funny, brilliant, lively and bursting with color, this is a do-good, feel-good short.

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This short film by Jorien van Nes starts with nothing less then a pig on your plate. Reading like a pig's biography backwards, or a biopig if you will, this short makes you question our eating habits as a social unit. It is confrontational and graphic, but also very well put together, stylistically superb and straight to the point. Jorien blurs the borders between reality and fiction just slightly so as to further investigate our cultural habits of eating meat. The clean, clear images are accompanied by a severely distorted voice-over. Once in a while a humor and well found sound effects finds their way onto the reel. Add to this the soundtrack composed by Bram Meindersma and the result feels almost like a music video

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It's almost like watching the result of a collaboration between The Wachowski Brothers and Chris Cunningham, with occasional echoes of Madonna's neo-goth promo 'Frozen' and The Matrix Revolutions. Darkness prevails and tattoo symbols seem to come to life in this incredible music video by Justinas Vinevicius of Attic Motion Design. "It took about a year to complete this video", says Justinas Vinevicius. Click Play see the video and read the complete interview.

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We were struck by the strong graphic qualities of Schrödinger's Room. But when we took a closer look, we found that there's also a deep philosophical layer to the film. The twenty-something French artist who made it, Stéphane Drouot, who operates under the Lacrymosa Industry moniker, says he was inspired by a famous thought experiment by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Drouot himself almost became a kick-ass programming nerd, but was fortunately saved for the arts by his interests in music and 3D graphics. We asked Drouot, well, to explain himself, in a non-nerdy fashion, of course.

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One good thing about producing a low-budget music video in a very short time is that the financial and time pressure tends to sometimes bring out the best in people. Dan Lowe's music video for UK band Field Music is a great example, made under such conditions. The only thing to rely on, as a director, is your own creaivity. Lowe, who is part of a UK collective of live action directors called Team Stush, came up with a simple but brilliant concept. The video shows the making of a lifesize wall drawing and it had us glued to the edge of our seats from start to finish.

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Sam (19) and Ronald (21) are good friends and share a few passions. One of those is games and animation. For the Holland Animation Film Festival they created a very funny machinima skit in which they mock North-Korea's nuclear test program. The title "Condemned Korea" was taken from a newpaper header around the time of the tests. Sam and Ronald used Gary's Mod for their film - an add-on for Half-Life.

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This video was originally shot back in 2001, when the world was a very different place. It's been gathering dust on the SubmarineChannel shelves for quite some time, but it's simply too good not to show you. 'Invisible Cities' is a collaboration between Spanish video artist Julio Soto with Pretty Boy Crossover. It's a 3-part post-apocalyptic visual poem featuring images of real and imagined inner city wastelands and some really impressive camera pans.

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