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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.

Live Action

Organ

Love stories don’t usually feature an eerie sense of atmosphere or a great level of mystery, but Organ has both in an abundance. It also features

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Live Action

Urban

It’s pretty impressive when a short film can open with a sprawling aerial shot and then launch straight into an adrenalin fueled parkour sequence. This

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Animation

What makes your day?

It’s a simple question, but not one we ask regularly enough….What makes your day?

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Animation

Theodore & Rosemary's Orchard

Somebody’s in my orchard, picking at my plum tree. Somebody’s in my vineyard, stealing my grapes from me. Somebody’s sneaking melons, off of

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Live Action

Chatter

It’s not often you get an effective horror in short form, but there’s something about Chatter from Leo Resnes, that just works. Maybe it’s

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Animation

Bottle

In recent years, we’ve seen animations made from people, we’ve seen animations made of paper, we’ve seen animations sprayed on walls and

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Animation

Saari

I think I’ve stated on here quite a few times now, I like my animation to be weird, in all honesty, the weirder the better. Veronica Lassenius’

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Art & Fashion

We Who Are Young Are Old

Sweet as the comets’ kiss night sealed It is death though I have died Had she not loved me at the beginning Before the gas fades with a harsh last bubble

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Live Action

Manland

A short film about where men go when they don’t belong – Beautifully shot by DoP Matt Fox, the choreography of Manland is immense, the film truly

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Live Action

How to Fly a Kite

A man starts a cult in which he is the only member.

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Film Festival

Ich bein ein Berliner

The great thing about being involved in the media industry is you get to meet and know lots of different people from all over the world and as we know in this

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Art & Fashion

PROBE #4

Sylvie Huysman studied the effects of gravity on human movement. If asked she can reproduce gravity’s pull on a wall making it seem as if she is slowly

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