March 2012 - Page 3 of 6 - Directors Notes

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Recent events aside, Ira Glass is widely recognised as one of the greatest broadcasters/storytellers/documentarians of our time and his Ira Glass on

Animation

123Films

If you’re still struggling to recognise all 26 films represented in Evan Seitz’s ABCinema, you may well hate me for bringing his latest animation

Art & Fashion

Blind: Kör

Director, photographer and designer Daghan Is releases Kör, the second part of the Blind series. Shot on the Canon EOS 7D with its filters-low contrast

Live Action

The Camera

Shot whilst on vacation on a budget of $50, Peter Lewis’ debut short The Camera tells the story of a solitary girl who finds a mysterious camera that

Music

Grand Duchy: White Out

Striking black & white imagery from Alex de Campi for Grand Duchy’s White Out.

Art & Fashion

Full Circle

Callum Cooper’s Full Circle is both impressive and a spacial mind fuck. If you’re scratching your head as to what kind of rig would make these

Animation

The Henhouse

Elena Pomares created her impressive hand-drawn short The Henhouse as her 2010 graduation film whilst studying Directing Animation at the National Film and

Animation

Kara

Call it a ‘tech demo’ all you like but Quantic Dream (the folks behind the game Heavy Rain) have created one of the most moving 7 minutes of short

Animation, Podcasts

DN237: A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard

Grant Orchard’s animation A Morning Stroll has been making quiet a splash across the festival circuit, picking up awards at both BAFTA and Sundance,

Animation

Welcome to Glaringly

Years before his multi-award winning animation A Morning Stroll, Grant Orchard created the ‘misunderstanding leading to morale panic’ piece Welcome

Art & Fashion

Fingering | Coming Soon

Diego Agulló and Agata Siniarska close out their Cinemagraph series of animated gifs which began in Breathless with the stomach churning Fingering and public

Documentary

The Most Astounding Fact

The Universe is in us. Reminiscent of Kurtis Hough’s re-edit of epic wildlife documentary footage in Storm, Max Schlickenmeyer skilfully arranges

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