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Obsessed with film, the internet and WordPress, Directors Notes is the place Rob gets to brings all his interests together and really geek out. When not writing for DN he can be found on Short of the Week or Vimeo.

Animation

Noisy Neighbours & Paranoia in Matthias Hoegg’s ‘Upstairs’

An inexplicable sound from the flat above leaves Jeff sleepless and anxious to find out the truth about what’s really going on upstairs. The latest film

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Asides, Music Video

AG Rojas gets Spiritualized in ‘I am What I am’

Prolific music promo, documentary and short film director AG Rojas teams up again with regular cinematographer Michael Ragen, to create another visually

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Asides, Live Action

Frustrating Conversations & Breaking the 4th Wall in Danny Sangra’s ‘I KNOW’

Prolific filmmaker Danny Sangra follows up the recent success he had with No F****** Around in Room 427 and No Aloha with his latest short I KNOW. Revolving

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Animation

TheyAreAnimators #14: Daniel Sousa

Following the release of his Oscar nominated short Feral (embedded further below in this post), we felt this was a good time to revisit our 2013 interview with

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Animation

RCA Animation 2013: Show and Tell

With the 2013 RCA Graduate Exhibition having recently taken place, DN was lucky enough to get a look at the recent batch of animated shorts coming out of the

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Animation

Conor Finnegan Blends Puppetry & Animation in Short ‘Fear of Flying’

Described as "like stop-motion but feels a bit more wonky and analogue" Irish filmmaker Conor Finnegan joins us to talk about animated short film Fear of

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Documentary

Oxyana – A transition from Short Film to Feature with Sean Dunne

With Oxyana having won the Best New Documentary Director award at this year’s Tribeca festival, DN favourite Sean Dunne looks to have made the difficult

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Live Action

Francesco Calabrese Switches Lovely Monsters for Adolescent Gangs in ‘I Killer’

When you’re impressed by the early short film work of a particular director, your thoughts upon hearing about the release of their latest project always

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Animation

TheyAreAnimators #13: Eoin Duffy

At its best, short film can move you and elicit emotion as well as any feature film you’ll encounter. Unfortunately, these powerful moments in film

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Animation, News

Exploring the McLaren’s Workshop app with David OReilly & Patrick Doyon

It’s not often we’ll dedicate a whole post on DN to a new piece of technology – but then again it’s not often its promotional campaign will feature

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Live Action, Music Video

Sci-Fi Shorts & 48-hr Films with Director Connor Simpson

When I receive an email from DN friend Oliver Goodrum advising me to check out a film, I know I’m in for a treat. Olly’s latest recommendation,

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Animation

Griff Draws up a ‘Wish List’ for Channel 4′s Random Acts

We’ve been following the work of Andrew ‘GRIFF’ Griffin for some time now – ever since we were initially bowled over by the emotional power of

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