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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

Chronophages

Anaïs Dauvergne might well be the first filmmaker we’ve featured on DN to make a film about “time slavery” and “fashion

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Live Action

Frontier

With resources in short supply, inhabitants of writer/director Daniel Freedman’s post-apocalyptic world soon turn on each other in a desperate struggle

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Live Action

Running from Transitions

Unless you’re George Lucas (and if you are reading this George I have one question for you…..”WHY?”) you probably never even look in

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Live Action

The Summer Home

With short films obviously limited in their duration, in my eyes it is all the more important they get off to a good start. With time restraints and a

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Animation

Pest

Presented as as part of Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival (which also includes Evan Red Borja’s Otzi), Pest by Nooree Kim is a hilariously

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Animation

TheyAreAnimators #1: Hisko Hulsing

In the first of an ongoing series looking directly at the work of established/up-and-coming animators in the medium of short film, we take a look at the career

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Tungu

Tungu, A collaboration between filmmaker Marc Rühl and author Georg Klein (who features as the ‘floating head’ in the movie) is a complex mix of

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Animation, Asides

Belly

The talent that is Julia Pott continues her distinct approach of employing awkward animated characters to act out her inner confusions with 'Belly'.

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Live Action

Stained

Inspired by Ronnie Thompson’s (joint writer with Colin Butts) stint as a prison officer, Stained, a dark prison drama from director Lewis Arnold tells the

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Documentary

135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema

Not content with posing one of the hardest questions imaginable for a cinephile – “What are the most beautiful movies ever made?” –

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Animation

Olympic Vermin

Leo Bridle, one-half of the team behind Train of Thought, returns to DN with impeccable timing as his latest Beakus short Olympic Vermin provides an

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Documentary

Kickstart T-REX

Leaving their usual stomping ground behind, documentary filmmakers Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper (aka California is a Place) have journeyed to Flint,

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