January 2012 - Page 3 of 5 - Directors Notes

The Laundromat

In case your mother failed to warn you about pretty women brandishing firearms Timothy Melville’s The Laundromat is a cautionary tale you may want to pay

Live Action

Disco

Last July we got to spend some time with director Luke Snellin and chat about the second instalment in his Britpop Trilogy of films, Disco, staring Bill

Live Action, Podcasts

DN229: The Father – David Easteal

Director David Easteal’s short The Father explores redemption and sacrifice after an unnamed dereliction of duty. David joins us to discuss capturing

Live Action

Nuevo Mexico

Film is, as they say, a visual medium in which you should ‘show and not tell’. Whilst many filmmakers walk the tortured line of building visuals to

Animation

Heartburn

Heartburn is a wonderfully charming, stop motion thesis project about a girl at odds with polite society, from a team of students (Giulia Barelli, Valentina

Live Action

e-lectricity

With paraffin acting as the de facto currency in a small Johannesburg township, Walter, a mocked inventor has to look for inspiration in an unlikely ally if

Documentary

SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day

Today you may have noticed several sites across the web have launched a self-imposed blackout in protest against the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills before the

Music

Superhumanoids: Malta

Run, the Superhumanoids are coming! Alien promo chase terror from Arms Race.

Live Action

Train

When it comes down to it, would you step in to help someone in trouble or would you take the coward’s way out? Darius Clark Monroe and his crew took to a

Music

Kathryn Calder: Who Are You?

In their promo for Kathryn Calder’s Who Are You?, directors Jesse Ewles and Cameron Tomsett bring together evolving shapes and pattern projections for a

Documentary

4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting

When I initially hit play on Jeff Harris’ 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting, I have to admit that a hint of cynicism did flicker across my mind. Why did

Animation, Asides

Copia A

In Gervasio Rodriguez Traverso and Pablo A. Díaz’s Copia A, a projectionist finds that a glitch in his equipment gives him a glorious new sense of

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