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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.

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Film 1

Film 1 by Martin de Thurah is a beautifully poetic short featuring some outstanding cinematography from DoP Kasper Tuxen and some incredible dialogue too.

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Animation

The Animation Workshop

In terms of challenging, refreshing and original animation, The Animation Workshop seems to be churning out more amazing videos than I have time to watch.

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Animation

Dead Island

Computer games aren’t something we feature on Directors Notes too often, it has to be something truly special to make it on here, but I think the trailer

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Music Video

Lotus Flower

For years now, Radiohead have been leading lights in the music video sector, with videos like Just, Street Spirit and No Surprises setting a very high standard

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Live Action

The Party

If only all anti drink-drive adverts could be this good!

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Live Action

Bikini Cinema

Does exactly what it says on the packet, girls in bikinis read lines from cult films in some high production videos. Why didn’t someone think of this

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Live Action

Some Static Started

We were first introduced to Ben Briand through his sumptuous short Apricot, well he’s back again with another fine piece of intriguing filmmaking, Some

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Animation

Eye of the Storm

Steampunk films have been around for a while now with movies like Castle in the Sky and Hellboy playing with the genre, however, I don’t remember any

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Live Action

BASTA(rd)

With the power of the internet on your side, if you can make a visually stunning short film you stand a very good chance of getting it seen. However, if you

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Animation

Der Konsument

Sometimes you just have days where you just can’t stop eating!

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Documentary

Uppercut

I’d almost forgotten about the stunning documentary series California is a place that we featured back in June 2010 on Directors Notes, Uppercut the

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Animation

Timbre I

Short and abstract, Timbre A-Z is an animation series from Mirai Mizue, check out the whole series on his vimeo channel.

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