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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.

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El Vez 2010 Top Ten

2010 was the first year in a long time I attended no film festivals at all, add to that the fact I changed jobs and moved 100 miles and it’s probably not

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Sour – Mirror

To say the Mirror music video for Japanese band Sour is genius would probably be the biggest understatement of the year, as for pure interactivity and user

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Animation, Asides

Meet Buck

For a girl, bringing a date home to meet your dad is a hard enough thing to do in the majority of circumstances, but when your dad is a hardened hunter and

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Errata

Not exactly the greenest film ever made, but the choice of material creates a unique and hypnotic exercise in animation. Errata is an experimental film in

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Animation

The Arctic Circle

The fruits of labour. A discovery. Greed embraces our hero.

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Art & Fashion

Kolo/Dance

Both myself and MarBelle have always been fond of the experimental dance short and they don’t come much better than the kaleidoscopic vision of Natacha

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Documentary

Be Linen

You wouldn’t have thought a documentary about textiles could be so beautiful and so inspiring, but Be Linen (commissioned by the CELC – the

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Animation

Crossover

An intricate minute forest was created for Crossover and then inhabited with cgi bugs and spiders in this tribal story of sacrifice. The detail and design in

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Live Action

Out of Sync

A man departs his house, only to realize what he leaves behind. By separating sound from visuals, Out of Sync paints a uniquely involving portrait of a

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Music Video

Röyksopp – 'Senior'

Expanding on their video for The Drug, that go (comprising Noel Paul & Stefan Moore who joined DN for a chat back in ’08 with their Jerk It promo)

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Asides, Music Video

Au Revoir Simone: Knight of Wands

Eli Stonberg gets creative in his interactive colouring book music video for Au Revoir Simone's witchy Knight of Wands music video.

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Animation

Stand Up

It’s strange how you can see a film and be so impressed and then forget about it for 2 years. I remember coming back from the London International

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