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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

Blik

Faceless characters inhabit the world of Polder Animation director Bastiaan Schravendeel’s Blik, a character driven 3D animation in which a young boy

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Music Video

Broken Social Scene: Sweetest Kill

Feeling like a scarier, more disturbing version of the Where the Wild Roses Grow promo, ex-wardrobe stylist Claire Edmondson doesn’t pull any punches in

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Live Action

We Miss You

Created by three film students who didn’t care about nature, We Miss You is not only a cinematic treat and a beguiling short, but is also a

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Animation

Megalomania

Meticulously crafted 3d animation constructed in 3d Studio Max is strategically combined with the occasional live-action sequence shot on the Canon 5D mkII to

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Animation

Phobias

Everyone has something they’re scared of and Christopher Wright’s ‘Swimmer Man’ experiences a few of the stranger fears in his

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Animation

I Need Your Clothes, Boots & Your Motorcycle

A hand-drawn stop-motion interpretation of Terminator 2, celebrating 20 years since the movies original release.

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Live Action

Plot Device

Effects laden short about a young wannabe filmmaker who obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn. Powered by Magic

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Animation

The Archiver

Thomas Obrecht, Guillaume Berthoumieu and Marc Menneglier, students of French 3D animation and digital special effects school ArtFx bring us The Archiver, the

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Music Video

Use Somebody

Touching music video from inti calfat for this beautiful rendition of Use Somebody by the Kings Of Leon, performed by Scala & Kolacny brothers. The

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Animation

Overcast

Inspired by Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, James Lancett and Sean Weston’s Overcast mixes live-action with animation to tell the story of one

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Music Video

Superstars Don’t Love

Travis Hopkins totally nails it with a music video comprised of over 60 fictional movie title cards inspired by the lyrics of the Buck 65 track

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Animation

Missing

Reminiscent of the work of Belgian animators Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Cristian Wiesenfeld’s Missing is the story of how vanishing cows and

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