February, 2011 Archive

Animation

Art in America: Brent Green

DN’s favourite animator Brent Green got a quality 10 page feature in last month’s issue of Art in America written by Saul Ostrow. I suggest you

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN Special: Confessions of a Dog – Gen Takahashi

In preparation for a screening at the Glasgow Film Festival which kicked off last weekend and a DVD release from Third Window Films in March, Confessions of a

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Animation

Dead Island

Computer games aren’t something we feature on Directors Notes too often, it has to be something truly special to make it on here, but I think the trailer

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Live Action

Monkeys

Blue Tongue Films are back with a short, sharp and hairy film from Joel Edgerton, the Tropfest 2011 finalist Monkeys. https://youtu.be/esK1bCkRZnc

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Flicker Works in Development

Last week’s DN guest Matthias Hoegg clued me into Callum Cooper’s Flicker Works in Development as the subject of A six month portrait of an

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Music Video

Lotus Flower

For years now, Radiohead have been leading lights in the music video sector, with videos like Just, Street Spirit and No Surprises setting a very high standard

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Live Action

Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s

For their eighth year, the Japan Foundation have curated a film season out of their archives to present at the ICA and venues elsewhere in the U.K. For this

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Documentary, Music Video

Everything Is Outta Sight

The weekends can be just as hard as the week, so here’s some beautiful music shot by Derrick Belcham and Vincent Moon of The Luyas playing from within a

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Live Action

The Party

If only all anti drink-drive adverts could be this good!

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Music Video

FluteGroove

Ape-faced kids teach us how not to follow the rules of the road in Kurt Lorenz’s repurposed PSA footage piece.

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Live Action

Bikini Cinema

Does exactly what it says on the packet, girls in bikinis read lines from cult films in some high production videos. Why didn’t someone think of this

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN196: Thursday – Matthias Hoegg

Animation director Matthias Hoegg joins us this week to discuss his BAFTA nominated, not so distant future short Thursday and the inspiration that’s

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