October, 2011 Archive

Animation

Plugs

Tom King of Father’s Stash has given me the perfect excuse to get out of doing the hovering.

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Shock Head Soul – Simon Pummell

Based on the famous book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness from German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Simon Pummell’s feature Shock Head Soul depicts

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News

Stray Cinema 2011

Back on DN009, we mentioned a new (well new then) competition called Stray Cinema, which was inviting filmmakers to download and recut footage to be voted on

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson

Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the

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Music Video

French Films: You Don´t Know

I was quite taken with Teemu Niukkanen’s previous promo outing Amsterdamned for I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper, so it’s nice to see him back with

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2011: The Whisperer in Darkness

I was once again fortunate enough to attend some of the Grimm Up North horror film festival in Manchester, now in its third year. An unplanned change in venue

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Waves – Alberto Morais

In his debut feature The Waves (Las Olas), director Alberto Morais explores the conversations we have with history and ourselves through his lead character

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Live Action

Sleeping Beauty

Having sufficiently got over my jealousy of MarBelle’s LFF jaunt and screenings aplenty, we made our way to the Screen on the Green for Julia

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Amador – Fernando León de Aranoa

In the fifth feature from Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, a woman must reconcile dignity with personal necessity after forging a difficult

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Live Action

SYNDROMES – a short film by Kristoffer Borgli & The Golden Filter

A young girl's ability to heal the wealthy elite leads to her involvement in a sinister secret underworld in Kristoffer Borgli's 'Syndromes'.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Without – Mark Jackson

Named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director Mark Jackson has crafted a perfectly balanced portrait of a young woman

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson

After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the

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