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MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.

Live Action

Exploring the Dramatic Space Between Youth & Adulthood in ‘The First Dead Lies’

In recent years we’ve watched Institute For Eyes (Joseph Bull & Luke Seomore) move from feature documentary Isolation to the non-narrative

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Animation, Asides

Skinmeal

Directing duo Karni&Saul join the Random Acts filmmaker ranks with their animated insect food chain tattoo tale 'Skinmeal'.

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Live Action

Producer Timothy Whitney Explains Why Making ‘The Worst’ Was The Best

Just shy of a year ago we sat down with New York filmmaker Larry Cohen for a chat about his familial communication breakdown short Brothers and his

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Music Video

Rone: Let’s Go

Julien Carot gives us a taste of the absurdities of a zero gravity house share in his rocket fuelled promo for Rone’s Let’s Go. Despite being for a

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Animation

Water Cycle

If all that science talk about evaporation, condensation and precipitation felt a bit rich to you, then you’ll be pleased to see Laura Stewart reveal the

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Music Video

Bloc Party: Ratchet

Cyriak applies his reality bending, mindfuck talents to the music machine that is Bloc Party in their new promo Ratchet.

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN291: A Field in England – Ben Wheatley

There are a couple things you can count on seeing here at DN each year; one is our end of year top ten lists and the other is an interview with the director

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Music Video

Breach: Jack

The Sacred Egg take the prize for the year's most hirsute music video with ease in their frizz free frenzy promo for Breach.

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Animation

Tom Clancy’s The Division

The fragility of our interconnected global network and the potential spread of a pandemic which will bring about the breakdown of order are terrifyingly played

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Art & Fashion

Keep Dancing

“We move, we fight…we learn not to give up” In Cristina Molino’s beautifully poetic Random Acts film Keep Dancing, an ice skater

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Music Video

De La Soul: Get Away

The early concept springing from a triptych Christmas card director Lenny Bass received from De La Soul of their faces, it wasn’t long before Bass had

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Music Video

YOAV: Pale Imitation

Ari Kruger and a little future tech help YOAV ignore the one he’s with for the memory of the one he loves in Pale Imitation.

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