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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.

Film Festival

Ten Picks From the 24th Encounters Short Film Festival

Team DN hones down the cornucopia of entertaining shorts we caught at this year's Encounters Short Film Festival to a succinct selection of 10 favourites.

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Asides, Live Action

Blackout

Alexan Sarikamichian considers those moments of loveless anguish when you find yourself adrift in your deepest thoughts in dark romance short 'Blackout'.

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Animation, Asides

Headspace – Lucy’s Story

South Melbourne production studio Jumbla encapsulate the joy and pain of a woman’s journey into delusional psychosis in animated short 'Lucy’s Story'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Mike Shinoda: Make It Up As I Go

Antoni Sendra merges photocopies, rotoscopy, hand drawn animation and digital collage in this mixed media promo for Mike Shinoda’s 'Make It Up As I Go'.

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Asides, Music Video

Kathryn Joseph: 1111

One-shot short '1111' by Rob Chiu for Kathryn Joseph masterfully charts an unexplained flood of primal emotions over its enigmatic 5 min running time.

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Music Video

Claire Laffut: Mojo

Claire Laffut teams up with directing twosome The Bardos for a stylish frolick with living paintings and a mysterious glittery lover in 'Mojo'.

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Asides, Live Action

Proxy

When an isolated sick girl and a curious boy strike up a secret friendship at a roadside motel, heartbreak isn’t far behind in Eric Schuman’s 'Proxy'.

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Asides, Music Video

Jon Hopkins: Singularity

Seb Edwards delivers a remarkable marriage of violence and dance for Jon Hopkins in his mind blowing choreographed sci-fi music video for 'Singularity'.

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Live Action

A Newborn Baby’s Fate Hangs in the Balance Between Two Desperate Couples in Christoph Kuschnig’s ‘Hatch’

DN speaks to Christoph Kuschnig about his emotional abandon baby short 'Hatch' & the challenges of shooting a film which features an infant at its centre.

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Live Action

A Horrific Secret Turns a Corporate Presentation Bloody in Kevin Slunder’s Gory Horror Short ‘Heartless’

DN caught up with director Kevin Sluder to discover how he amped up the gore for blood drenched corporate horror short 'Heartless'.

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Animation, Asides

Barbeque

Jenny Jokela’s hand-painted RCA grad short 'Barbeque' is a wildly visceral, mesmeric animation about coping with post traumatic stress disorder.

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Animation, Documentary

Charlie Tyrell Tries to Understand His Emotionally Distant Father in Stop-Motion Doc ‘My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes’

DN speaks to Charlie Tyrell about his stop-motion quest to better understand his emotionally distant late father in doc 'My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes'.

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