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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

Bang

A very short film about having an idea for a very short film.

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Live Action

Junkhearts

Opening with close up shots of a disturbed looking Eddie Marsan as he greedily swigs from miniature whisky bottles and rummages through the remains of a

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Music Video

Machine

At Reading Festival this year I was lucky enough to witness the audio visual delight that is Radio Soulwax, as they blew the roof off the NME/Radio 1 stage

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Animation

Pythagasaurus

Voiced by comedians Bill Bailey, Martin Trenaman and Simon Greenall, Pythagasaurus the new animation from Aardman directed by Peter Peake, not only delivers

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Animation

French Movie

“I was in a French movie and I only had 9 hours to live…and I knew it!”

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Music Video

The Black Keys: Lonely Boy

Jesse Dylan (son of Bob) shows that less is more, with just a static camera and a grooving man employed for his video for The Black Keys.

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Art & Fashion

The Canadian Affair

Shot on the Red MX and polished off with some fine post-production work, The Canadian Affair is an experimental short from the multidisciplinary Canadian

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Art & Fashion

Tell No One

The work of creative studio Tell No One is bound to turn heads, their experiments with video cameras and post-production software make stunning motion

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Live Action

Page 23

Whether it’s Edward Norton’s furniture obsession in Fight Club or the desire for all things Swedish in I Can Speak Swedish, Scandinavian furniture

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Live Action

Nachtwaker (Nightwatcher)

While the rest of us sleep (or party hard), the nightwatcher looks after Amsterdam and cares for the city.

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Animation

Bruce

The story of one man and his own miniature Bruce Willis.

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Live Action

Drive

Having watched Drive last night in the sweltering heat of an Indian summer, I now find myself in a car, windows down, cruising the roads of England, the

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