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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.

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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Art & Fashion

Bad Things That Could Happen

Bad Things That Could Happen is a self explanatory film made up of seven short scenes. Playing with scale and bringing objects to life, the film creates a

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Animation

American Software

Just about anyone who owns a computer or an mp3 player knows about the mighty power struggle between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for the control of Earth, but

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Music Video

Kill Your Co-Workers

It’s always really pleasing when a band you love, does good things with their music videos, as there’s nothing more disappointing for me than a

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Asides, Live Action

High as a Kai

It’s truly heart-warming to see someone using the medium of film for a good cause and I know entertaining people is a good cause, but I mean a REALLY

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Art & Fashion

Oops

Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a postmodern travelogue, “oops”—a ten-minute art video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube

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Animation

Le Royaume

It’s hard to believe Le Royaume is a graduating film, it has the look and feel of an early Hayao Miyazaki animation and its scale and attention to detail

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Film Festival, Live Action

LFF2010: Another Year

It was James Cameron who once stated, “Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your

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Animation

Tatooine

The original Star Wars trilogy (good choice leaving out the latest films, if only George Lucas had been so wise) beautifully retold through meticulously

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Art & Fashion

ATTENTION!!

Shot by The Guardian’s Dan Chung and Tania Branigan, on a Canon 60D and 1DmkIV, there’s something oddly amusing, slightly hypnotic and a little

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