August, 2011 Archive

Documentary

Way of the Morris Cinema Release

Back in March I travelled out to Austin, Texas for the SXSW film festival and met up with director/actor/writer Tim Plester to chat about the feature

Read more

Animation, Music Video

Flashman: The Proposition

We’ve featured the work of Airside animator Jack Cunningham a couple times before (MARS! & Stuff & Things) on DN, but his clean geometric promo

Read more

Animation

Resistance 3

Following on from MarBelle’s “I’m far from a big gamer” post the other day, I’m also far from a big gamer (unless you count World of

Read more

Animation

Yowie and the Magpie

A hunter’s obsession seals his fate in a darkly comic animated tale of man versus monster.

Read more

Animation

Get Down

Three short animations, 1600 hand-drawn frames of animation coloured with highlighters, one great tribute to Arnie.

Read more

Live Action

Epic Rap Battles of History

What better way to kick off the weekend than with a war of words between the Baird BARD and every kid’s favourite doctor in the latest episode of Epic

Read more

Animation, Music Video

Dinosaurs: 16bit

Using Flash & After Effects Kristofer Strom has created a music video which he describes as “sort of an epileptic trip” for 16bit track

Read more

Film Festival, News

Reading & Leeds 2011

It’s the start of the August Bank Holiday, the long weekend that annually plays host to the Reading and Leeds music festivals, which can only mean that

Read more

Live Action, Podcasts

DN215: It’s Natural To Be Afraid – Justin Doherty

So, almost 5 years ago the Directors Notes’ podcast was born and back then no one had heard of us so finding guests was a bit more challenging than it is

Read more

Music Video

Flor Braier: You are so Apricot

We’re always pleased to see new work from Nico Casavecchia and his promo for Flor Braier’s You are so Apricot see’s a return to the whimsey

Read more

Live Action

Portal: No Escape

I’m far from a big gamer, but even I was drawn in by Valve’s teleportation puzzle Portal, so felt a thrill of anticipation when I saw the excited

Read more

Music Video

The Stars in His Head

Isaac Gale and Dan Huiting’s atmospheric promo for the Dark Lights remix of Colin Stetson’s The Stars in His Head combines smoke, lasers, water and

Read more