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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.

Live Action

The Silent House

With the release of the fourth film in the Scream series this summer again providing a self parodying insight into Hollywood horror, we are once more left

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Animation

An Abstract Day

In Oerd van Cuijlenborg’s short An Abstract Day we experience ‘a day in the life of a couple, who fight, make love and escape the hot and crowded

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Art & Fashion

Gold Panda: You

We’ve always been fans of a bit of dance here on DN; whether it’s Christina Ricci’s tap dance from Buffalo ’66 or the zombie shuffle

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Documentary

Concrete Circus

For those living outside the UK who might not have had the opportunity to see Channel 4’s amazing Concrete Circus documentary, the culmination of the

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Animation

Resistance 3

Following on from MarBelle’s “I’m far from a big gamer” post the other day, I’m also far from a big gamer (unless you count World of

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Animation

Get Down

Three short animations, 1600 hand-drawn frames of animation coloured with highlighters, one great tribute to Arnie.

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Animation, Music Video

Dinosaurs: 16bit

Using Flash & After Effects Kristofer Strom has created a music video which he describes as “sort of an epileptic trip” for 16bit track

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Music Video

The Stars in His Head

Isaac Gale and Dan Huiting’s atmospheric promo for the Dark Lights remix of Colin Stetson’s The Stars in His Head combines smoke, lasers, water and

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Animation

The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus

Sporting the surname ‘Herzog’, people are going to be expecting big things from your films and animator Marius Herzog doesn’t disappoint.

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Music Video

Hooray For Earth: True Loves

A mysterious traveller uses strange clouds of smoke to travel through time in this absorbing video for Hooray for Earth track True Loves. Probably one of the

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Detour Warsaw

Director Seb Edwards' new HTC ad spot sees a diverse group of cyclists cruising through Warsaw at night to the sounds of Funkadelic Can You Get to That.

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Animation

Howl

Sharon Michaeli & Natalie Bettelheim's Howl is a beautifully tender tale of a mother struggling to control her animalistic child.

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