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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

Road Rage

An incident of road rage leads to a bizarre chain of events in Nick Khoo’s After Effects animation Road Rage, a short film the director has dedicated

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Article

El Vez 2011 Top Ten

Another year, another painful internal debate over the traditional end of year list and with an intimidating ten of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The

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Asides, Music Video

CR’s Music Video Picks of the Year

Influential Art & Design magazine Creative Review select 10 music promos that “rocked CR’s world” in 2011 – CR’s Music Video

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Asides, Music Video

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

You can always trust Arcade Fire to provide some music video goodness – this time with the help of director Vincent Morisset.

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Animation, Asides

Man Up

Up, left, right, round and round but not down Ed Barrett’s graduation film from the R.C.A. is a tale of isolation and solitude as a tower crane worker

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Asides, Music Video

Merlot: Loser

Playful 360° music video by director/D.O.P Julien Widmer, for French band Merlot.

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Article, Live Action

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Surely, there is no better indication of a film’s tension truly gripping its viewer, than when you have to remind yourself to breathe on more than one

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Submission

With a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis and visuals by cinematographer Urszula Pontikos, Martina Amati’s fashion short collaboration with Bella

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Animation, Asides

Keloid

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky* wrote about an experiment which had to do with Artificial Inteligence. In a near future, man will have given birth to machines that are

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Animation, Asides

NEWMEDIA

The measured, thoughtful pace and detailed CGI make Motion Lights’ NEWMEDIA a standout short, looking to follow the success of Fede Alvarez’s Panic

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Asides, Music Video

Skrillex: First Of the Year (Equinox)

A creepy individual who hangs around playgrounds gets what’s coming to him when he follows a young girl with unusual powers into an empty warehouse in

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Lavomatic

Timothé, a young boy, looking for his dad…

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