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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

One Night Stand

The tension of the morning after a one night stand.

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Music Video

The Answer

In recent times, UNKLE have always felt like somewhat pioneers of the music video and for their new video ‘The Answer’ they gone all out again by

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Music Video

Ice, Sea, Dead People

Fancy making a music video for the fantastically named Bedford trio Ice, Sea, Dead People, well now you can! The band have shot a video for the song in a

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Art & Fashion

Telephoneme

Telephoneme is a hybrid live action/animation short looking at language carrying a hidden meaning. The film came about after the discovery on an educational

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Animation

The Goon

Produced by David Fincher and featuring the vocal skills of Paul Giamatti, the trailer for the animated adaptation of Eric Powell’s The Goon is already

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Animation

Buildings & Vampires

Almost as beautiful as the feature it pays tribute to, Buildings & Vampires is a petit tribute from a group of friends to the film Were the wild things

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Animation

Scott Benson

Freelance animator and illustrator Scott Benson has been somewhat prolific over the last year (you might have seen his short music video Please my Favourite

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Documentary

Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse’s background in photography shines through in his moving image work, composed like stills, his video pieces are often deliberately slow,

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Live Action

Beautiful Kate

Just over 12 months ago, if you had asked me to list my favourite Australian films, it probably would’ve included Mad Max, BMX Bandits, Crocodile Dundee,

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Animation, Asides

Gregor

Gregor thinks a lot. Maybe even too much…Beautiful hand-drawn animation from Petra Zlonoga

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Live Action

Your Lucky Day

What would you do for $156m? This is the conundrum set by Dan Brown’s (not of The Da Vinci Code fame) 15min short, as 6 strangers find their lives

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Documentary

Life in a Day

One World. 24 Hours. 6 Billion perspectives. Life in a Day is a historic global experiment to create user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by

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