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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.

Documentary

Knuckle

The boxing film has become somewhat of a staple of the Hollywood film industry and with this year’s Oscar success for David O. Russell’s The

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Music Video

By Your Hand

Cyrus Mirza & Nicolas Booth are back with more music video magic in this split-screen stunner for Los Campesinos! track By Your Hand.

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Music Video

Seeed: Wonderful Life

Peter Razz takes Seeed’s playful cover of Black’s Wonderful Life and somehow makes it even quirkier by accompanying it with a video of a large

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Documentary

Thomas Blanchard

Promised myself I would leave the skate/bmx videos alone for a little while…but Thomas Blanchard’s slow motion, effects laden pieces are just too

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Animation

Five, six, seven

Not to be confused with the Steps classic 5,6,7,8, Hungarian animator Fekti Balázs’ bleak science-fiction film Five, six, seven is a heady mix of

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Sticky

Two sellotape movies for the price of one: Johan Rijpma’s Tape Generations and Chris Butcher’s Rewind.

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Live Action

The Myth of the American Sleepover

Films like The Myth of the American Sleepover don’t come along very often; strong in nostalgia and packed with the idiosyncrasies of the teenage years,

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Animation

Katie Armstrong

Not only does Katie Armstrong get to work for Vimeo (jealous!) as a Content + Community Manager, she also produces playful animated pieces that manage to be

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Music Video

Mr Rager | Make Her Say

Nightmarish vision for Kid Cudi track Mr Rager, from Surface to Air’s Jeremie Rozan.

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Animation, Documentary

10 Years On

10 years on and the images of the 9/11 attacks on New York City still feel as vivid and haunting as ever, below are three animations looking at the events of

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Animation

Little Boat

When an animation is getting attention from DN favourites Eran Hilleli, The Moth Collective and Eric Power over on Vimeo, it was a pretty forgone conclusion we

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Music Video

Camera Shift

A Nice Idea Everyday show off their camera shift techniques with music videos for Mint Julep and Blue Roses.

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