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MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.

Animation, Podcasts

DN288: Woody – Stuart Bowen

Narrowly escaping a career as a wedding video editor with his creative, self-initiated fake trailers, Australian filmmaker Stuart Bowen took the bold choice to

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Art & Fashion

ADBNE 2013 Opening Titles

Motion design graphics studio Breeder deliver a truly jaw-dropping opening title sequence for Analogue/Digital in which bodies are wrapped within a mixture of

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Music Video

Wise Blood and Michael Lawrence Tear up the Pittsburgh Streets Hunting the ‘Rat’

We see so much of Michael Lawrence here on DN these days that I’m thinking of getting him a key cut and clearing out a dresser drawer at DN towers. Our

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Animation

Cartoon Network: Summer Ident

Someone over at Cartoon Network deserves a big fat pay rise and the key to the executive washroom for coming up with the idea of using an exquisite corpse

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Live Action

Slo-mo Booth Supercut

Whilst I’m certain that Bruton Stroube’s Slo-mo Booth Supercut won’t be the first high frame rate/high jinks you’ll have seen,

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Live Action

A Break from Script Writing Leads to a ‘Notion’ About the Nature of Inspiration

When your own brain frustrates you and your muse remains elusive where do you wander to find inspiration? Stuck in a fruitless scenario I suspect many of you

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Live Action

Assessment

In Mark Gutteridge’s award winning 2010 short Assessment, a struggling school boy who couldn’t give a damn and a young ballet dancer who cares all

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Live Action

The Ting

A couple weeks ago we saw what director Jeremy Cole could do with a single shot and 1374 layers of video. This time round in The Ting Jeremy provides a strong

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Animation

Kids & Explosions: Swear Words

Agence Cumulus puts Kids & Explosions’ NSFW potty mouthed Swear Words track to animated b&w loops. “Inspired by GIF, this video clip is about

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Documentary

Hunter’s Home

Eskild Krogh attempts to depict different understandings of one’s habitat and being in short film Hunter’s Home.

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Music Video

The/Das: Have No Fear

Tapping into the influences of Berlin in the 80s, goth, post-punk and Depeche Mode – the musical roots which birthed their sound – German duo

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Podcasts

DN287: I Love Your Work – Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris' 'I Love Your Work' sees the digital artist create an interactive documentary which profiles the lives of 9 women who make lesbian porn.

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