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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.

Animation

KANIZSA HILL

Another person is shot and can only survive as a head and a body who exist independently from one another. The forgetful body desperately collects souvenirs,

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Animation

Nuit Blanche

It takes a lot to distract me from my breakfast, but this morning I nearly spat my cornflakes out at the dazzling majesty of Arev Manoukian’s Nuit

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Animation, Music Video

The Fitzcarraldo Sessions

Creative double-act Duckeye have created a mesmerizing video for French Musicians The Fitzcarraldo Sessions, using a fascinating combination of hands on

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Music Video

Jam Session

8 people with 5 instruments from 4 Continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song.

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Animation

Garuda

An animated short film about a young boy in India chasing after his dream. Animated at Les Gobelins in Paris.

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Animation

Forget the film, Watch the Titles

I can often tell how much I’m going to like a film, just by viewing it’s opening sequence and with my ever increasing interest in in motion

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Art & Fashion

Insignificant Images

At one point in photographer Ryan McGinley’s glorious promo for Pringle, Tilda Swinton staggers bewildered though a cornfield in a black cocktail dress,

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Animation

The Power Gap

Not content with adorning my walls with their posters, wearing their t-shirts and planning my weeks ahead on their calendars, I’m now going to share my

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News

Sight and Sound's best online videos of 2009

I think it’s all too obvious by now, that here at Directors Notes we bloody love a list! Well Sight and Sound love to pander to our needs, they’ve

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Animation

Stare into the Sun

Along with film, one of my great passions in life is graphic design and illustration (not that I can actually do any of these) and when I’m not trawling

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Art & Fashion

24 hours, Pavey Ark

In the right place, at the right time, Time Lapse photography can be a truly mesmerizing spectacle. 24 hours, Pavey Ark is a shining example of this, as

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News

44 Inch Website

Feature film websites can often be pretty unimaginative things, but every now and then one comes along and provides a bit of a surprise. This is certainly the

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