February, 2011 Archive

Music Video

Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands: Wintertime's Doll

Undeniably beautiful but at the same time unsettlingly creepy promo from Sophie Gateau for the Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands track

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Documentary

Uppercut

I’d almost forgotten about the stunning documentary series California is a place that we featured back in June 2010 on Directors Notes, Uppercut the

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Sync

Max Hattler sets his canvas to the celestial scale for 'Sync' which represents the life of the universe, from big bang to present day.

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Animation

Timbre I

Short and abstract, Timbre A-Z is an animation series from Mirai Mizue, check out the whole series on his vimeo channel.

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Animation, Asides

The External World

Gobsmacked, speechless, stunned, amazed and dumbfounded….all words I would use to describe my feelings after watching David OReilly’s epic EPIC

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Awards, Live Action, Podcasts

DN195: LIN – Piers Thompson

A man true to his word, director Piers Thompson returned to DN to discuss ‘the Bulgarian experience’ that was the filming of his BAFTA nominated

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Animation, Music Video

Skin Flicks

It’s ok, this is work safe!…..Skin Flicks isn’t all about porn, but instead a company that manages, represents and delivers the finest

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR 2011: Love Addiction

Love Addiction, alternatively titled Fuyu no Kemono which means ‘Winter’s Beast’ in Japanese, throws four characters with conflicting personalities into

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Art & Fashion

The Curve of Forgotten Things

Shot on a RED camera using 70s lenses, Todd Cole’s hazy short The Curve of Forgotten Things is a dreamy introduction to the design work of duo Kate and

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Slick Horsing

Exactly what’s occuring in the flicking dark amid the disembodied screams of Kiron Hussain’s experimental short Slick Horsing is well beyond my

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan

The Tiger Awards Competition line-up showcased an impressive array of world cinema feature-length debuts (and some second features), but none of these

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Animation

Hello Big Bang

There are many theories of how the universe came to exist, from Inflation Universe Theories to Creation Theories, but Hello Big Bang is “how the universe

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