January 2012 - Page 4 of 5 - Directors Notes

Prom Night

Taking the role of director/performer/choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall’s Prom Night is an engrossing dance/performance short that you won’t dare

Animation, Music

Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupp: Two Against One

Chris Milk and Anthony Francisco Schepperd have put together a beautifully animated, hunter nightmare promo for Danger Mouse and Daniele Lupp’s Two

Animation

Gravity // Un Rêve de Demain

Filip Piskorzynski & Natalia Dufraisse put pixilation to great narrative use in their story of a free spirit literally brought down to earth in 'Gravity'.

Documentary

The Horror Portfolio

Hatinhand returns with a compilation of horror films that may have you watching from behind the sofa. Sixty-four horror movies in a five-minute montage; the

Music

A Place to Bury Strangers: So Far Away

New York City’s ‘loudest band’, A Place to Bury Strangers, return to the shoegazing scene with new single So Far Away accompanied by a music

Animation

Moving Pictures

Nadav Nachmany and Dror Shpatz set 2D and 3D realities duelling for dominance in this charmingly dark tale of prescription drug dependency.

Live Action, Podcasts

DN228: Tower Block – Nikias Chryssos

Nikias Chryssos’ short Tower Block is the exception to the rule of keeping shorts under the 20 minute mark. Running at nearly 40 minutes it’s an

Music

Gillian Chase: iPhone 4s Music Video

Whether you like Tim Kemple’s music video or not, the fact it was shot entirely on an iPhone 4s surely makes it something to admire? If you want to know

Animation

Mon Rêve

Vincenzo Lodigiani’s Mon Rêve explores the theme of insomnia, and how sleep becomes an obsession to those deprived of it: “There is a kind of cult

Animation

The Joy of Books

Husband and wife Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp, a team of volunteers and 50 hours of book animation has resulted in a massively impressive ode to

Live Action, Music

Real Estate: Easy

An overzealous promotions team spread the word on Real Estate’s new album. Thanks to DN favourite Bobby Miller for bringing this to our Twitter

Documentary

Vowels

Temujin Doran provides music and beautiful cinematography for his short documentary Vowels; “based on an archival sound recording taken from the 1945

January, 2012 Archive