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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.

Art & Fashion

Will & Carly Confront a Rising Tide of Youth Violence in Poetic Anti-Knife Crime Short ‘No More Knives LDN’

Directing duo Will & Carly tell DN why they felt compelled to address escalating knife crime by combining slam poetry & 16mm film in 'No More Knives LDN'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Samantha & Sabrina: Saba

Marie Larrivé & Lucas Malbrun's 'Saba' tracks a multicolour life form as it rains down on an alternate earth, transforming the inhabitants in its wake.

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Asides, Documentary

Tungrus

Rishi Chandna’s delightful doc 'Tungrus' captures the life of a domineering pet rooster who terrorises a Mumbai family in their cramped suburban apartment

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Live Action, Premiere

A Rural Woodworker Consumed by Grief Builds His Own Coffin in Sanford Jenkins Jr.’s USC Short ‘A Craftsman’

Sanford Jenkins Jr. joins DN for the premiere of his USC Diploma short 'A Craftsman', the story of a grief stricken widower who builds his own coffin.

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Asides, Live Action

Michelob: Call From Nature 

DN favourite Ian Pons Jewell transforms busy city dwellers into a collection of migrating animalistic entities in new Michelob ad spot 'Call From Nature'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Caravan Palace: Miracle

A conquistador encounters a hidden female civilization where men are but a functional cog in their hyper evolved plans in Double Ninja's 'Miracle'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

FAKE

Videographer/Photographer Valentina Quijada perfectly captures the languid leisure of youth in her beautifully styled fashion spot 'FAKE'.

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Animation, Asides

The Mano: The Burning of Wooden Engraved Plates

Adolpho Avril’s 'The Mano: The Burning of Wooden Engraved Plates' provides a discordant expression of the outsider artist’s obsessive universe.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Premiere

Glimpse the Unseen World of Mysterious Connections in Ollie Verschoyle’s ‘Madeleine’

DN talks to Ollie Verschoyle about taking up the role of director alongside his cinematographer duties on 'Madeleine' - a story of interconnected clarity.

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Art & Fashion

Yo Vo Takes a Shot at Contemporary Culture’s Blind Adoration in Disquieting Fashion Short ‘Copycat’

Yo Vo tells DN how Jonathan Glazer, Yorgos Lanthimos and dual cinematographers helped shape his fashion film takedown of influencer culture, 'Copycat'.

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Animation, Asides

The Second Coming

Eoin Duffy flexes his geometric animation skills in this interpretation of Irish poet William Butler Yeats’s 'The Second Coming', created for TED Ed.

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Documentary

Eric Faden Opens Our Eyes to the Narrative Possibilities of Cinematic Blindness in Video Essay ‘Visual Disturbances’

Eric Faden discusses exploring the hidden film style of “the invisible cinema” deployed by Tati & Haneke in his video essay 'Visual Disturbances'.

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