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Animation, Asides, Music Video

High Art Prose Clash With Low Art Animation in Martinus Klemet’s ‘Slow Dance’

It was back in 2011 that El Vez found himself very much under the influence of Estonian animator Martinus Klemet’s series of surreal vignettes In the

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Live Action

A Hero Fights the Pull of the Storyteller’s Tale in George Messa’s ‘Inanimate’

We all know how the story is told: a hideous beast kidnaps a beloved wife, her heartbroken husband leaves all other concerns behind to head into the deep dark

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Music Video

Institute For Eyes Brave the Dangerous Streets of Machinedrum’s Vapor City in ‘Gunshotta’

Inspired by Lord of the Flies, Institute For Eyes return to the world of those standing on the cusp of adulthood – which they so effectively mined in The

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Animation, Music Video

Eric Leiser Digs into his Primordial Stop Motion Past for New Film ‘Little Band of Sailors’

A stalwart in the use of stop motion and experimentation over innumerable shorts and a trio of features, New York artist and filmmaker Eric Leiser’s

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Music Video

Florian Malak Rotofreezes Master Moves in Single Shot Promo ‘Mistrz!’

In his new single shot promo Mistrz! for reggae/rap outfit KaCeZet & Fundamenty, director Florian Malak employs a rotofreeze technique to highlight the

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Documentary

Obsessive Maniacs Documents the Filmmaker Drive to Create

Since DN opened its virtual doors back in 2006 we’ve seen the homes of online film presentation mature rapidly and with them our access to the great wave

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Live Action

Danny Sangra Captures Grief’s Oscillation of Emotions in ‘No Aloha’

In Danny Sangra's perfectly drawn short, we see a daughter oscillate through the range of emotions brought about by the death of her mother.

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Addressing the Uncertainty of Danger in Lord of the Flies Adaptation ‘In the Wake of Sirens’

Set within the confines of a locked car, Nathan Coetzee’s short In the Wake of Sirens is a modern, impressionistic re-staging of William Golding’s classic

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Music Video

BRTHR & Iggy Azalea Head to India and ‘Make it Bounce’

Over the past few months we’ve become big fans of the visually deviant music promos to come from the combined directorial force that is BRTHR (Alex Lee

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Documentary

Superman

Kai-El, or Superman as we know him here on Earth, arrived from the planet Kypton, according to his origin story. He plummeted towards the Earth at great speed

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Animation

An Alien Claymation

T is for Toilet segment director of The ABCs of Death and claymation master, Lee Hardcastle returns with An Alien Claymation, a fast paced, gruesome homage to

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Documentary

Philip Bloom: South Africa Mini Docs

Whilst touring the beautiful country of South Africa, cinematographer Philip Bloom produced four mini documentaries, each with very different but engaging

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