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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, Art & Fashion

Zyklus I

Gather your strength, protect yourself in armour and ignite the bomb. Move into combat with yourself and grow from it. This experimental stop-motion film,

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Music Video

Playing the Villain

MarBelle introduced us to the work of Matt Devine of The Glue Society, back in December of 2009 with the explosive ping-pong short Metal on Metal: Bastard.

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Animation

A Kaffa

This Supinfocom Graduation Film, directed by Joan Baz, Lionel Caruana, Margaux Demont and Bastien Martin, is an animation so dark, it feels as if it has been

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Animation

Lumi

Lumi discovers his world for the first time. He looks up the sky and gets touched by the stars. Then, everything goes dark and suddenly appears GriGro, a

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Music Video

Open Your Eyes

Peter “the voice of Darth Maul” Serafinowicz does his best Rocky impression in the video for Alex Metric & Steve Angello – Open Your

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Live Action

Rubber

Rubber opens with a shot of a chair nestling in the wilderness of an unknown American desert, the following shots reveal more chairs spread randomly across a

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Music Video

Low Guns

7 seconds on a station platform, seen through the window of a high-speed train. https://youtu.be/DIArJjU8HjE

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Live Action

La Prochaine Fois (The Next Time)

Multi-screen goodness in this dreamy short from A76 Productions, think Groundhog Day re-imagined by the French, with Bill Murray replaced by a beautiful beach

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Live Action

Tune for Two

When you watch a lot of short films, you get used to kind of ‘speed watching’ and if a film hasn’t grabbed my attention quickly, I’ll

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Asides, Music Video

The Look

If stop-motion pigeons in bumper cars isn’t reason enough to make you want to watch Lorenzo Fonda's 'The Look' music video then we don’t know what is!

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Animation

Viliam

“Viliam didn’t like anything about this life at all. One day….a pencil fell out of his father’s pocket! And the little Viliam started

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Asides, Documentary

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

During a live interview with director Werner Herzog after a screening of his 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, journalist Jason Solomons described the

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