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Co-Founder & Managing Editor at Directors Notes, Rob's 20+ year obsession with short film has led him to develop a unique perspective on the medium. Driven by his curiosity and excitement for emerging filmmaking talent, he's motivated by sharing these exciting new voices with the world.

Music Video

Norah Jones: Miriam

Featuring sweeping camera shots, perfectly executed transitions and an intriguing plot, Philip Andelman’s cinematic music promo for Norah Jones’

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Art & Fashion

The Wizard of Oz Experiment

Simultaneously watching 5829 copies of Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz playing side by side might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Yet,

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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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