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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.

Music Video

CocoRoise – Lemonade

I’ve loved Sub Pop records ever since I first heard Nirvana’s Bleach back all those years ago and they still manage to produce challenging exciting

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Live Action

Somewhere

When your dad’s a world famous director, your cousin’s Nicolas Cage and you’ve starred in The Godfather movies, it’s not surprising

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Live Action

Monsters

Making a short film featuring eye-catching visual effects seems to be the way to get yourself noticed in recent years. South African Neill Blomkamp was carving

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Music Video

Mums of Death

Time to get funky, 8-bit graphic funky with the Mums of Death.

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Animation, Live Action, Music Video

Future Shorts Best of 2010

A special look back on the year that was 2010 from the Future Shorts YouTube Channel, featuring some of their favorite shorts including… Temper Trap

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Live Action

Ghost

With superb cinematography and sound design, Tobias Gundorff Boesen’s short Ghost has a highly polished, professional feel to it, whilst also managing

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Live Action

3 Minutes

I honestly wasn’t expecting that!

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Art & Fashion

Cruzada

Yellow, Red, Blue and Green collide armed with instruments in Cinthia Marcelle’s Cruzada, a piece designed to loop in an installation, but equally

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Animation, Art & Fashion

The Rite of Youth

It’s pretty hard to describe Sasha Belyaev’s The Rite of Youth; Small interstellar vessel on a psychedelic journey through space and time,

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Article

Films of 2011

I know what you’re thinking….”haven’t they just done films of 2010?” Well don’t worry, I haven’t made a time machine

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Live Action

Modern Times

Apparently made for “no money, just a little time and a lot of passion”, Modern Times is stunning look into the future of cinema projection. Lets

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Animation

Güveç

A strange forest creature trying to find his own place on the food cycle.

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