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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

Pellet Gun

A dog, a cyclops, and others kill some time with the help of wormholes and hobbyist self-modification in this 2008 black and white animation from Brooklyn

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Animation, Music Video

DA FUNK – Daft Punk x Jay & Silent Bob

Kevin Smith creations Jay & Silent Bob ‘rock-out’ to Daft Punk in this funky animated short from Brooklyn based graphic designer Jules Tardy.

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Music Video

Grizzly Bear: Yet Again

Emily Kai Bock’s mysterious music promo for Grizzly Bear track Yet Again sees a skater take an unexpected journey when a routine on the ice doesn’t

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Animation

The Wing Eater

Stop-motion animator and filmmaker Nicole Emmons uses people and puppets to create her latest fairytale short – The Wing Eater. Reality and the veiled

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Animation

The Boy Who Wanted to be a Lion

A seven-year-old deaf boy goes on a school trip to the zoo, where the experience of seeing a lion for the first time changes his life forever.

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Music Video

Citizens!: True Romance

Creators/Directors We are from LA show that there’s no stopping true love in this engrossing music promo for London quintet Citizens!

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Animation, Asides

The Event

Julia Pott returns to DN with her latest short 'The Event', which employs awkward animated characters to act out her inner confusions.

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Live Action

Marriage Material

Mumblecore director Joe Swanberg releases his latest creation Marriage Material on Vimeo. Sitting at just 5 minutes shy of an hour in duration, this long

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Animation

C Block

Created during 5 months of storyboarding and re-boarding, 2 weeks of design and 3 months of mad production in his 4th year of animation school at Sheridan,

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Live Action

Adelaide

One of the weirdest love stories I’ve ever seen, award winning short Adelaide from US filmmaker Liliana Greenfield-Sanders manages to tread the thin line

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Animation

TheyAreAnimators #3: Emma De Swaef

Winner of this years' prestigious Cartoon d'Or award (along with various other

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Animation

Shelter

Animator Carl Burton returns to DN with his latest short Shelter, an unusual animation which takes us on a bizarre journey through an epic secret

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