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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.

Asides, Music Video

Prolyphic & Buddy Peace: Go Green

If like me you think there just aren’t enough rapping marionettes in hip hop these days, then you’re gonna love Aaron Lampert’s Go Green

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN283: Possession – Ralf Schmerberg

Ralf Schmerberg joins us to discuss working for pleasure and opening yourself up to possibilities of varied distribution avenues.

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News, Podcasts

Answer a Few Questions & Help Make DN Great!

We know that some of you have been with us since our earliest days, for which we're eternally grateful, but over the past 7 years you've all remained a

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Asides, Music Video

I/O: Wasted My Time

Sometimes it takes a while to get a collaboration going regardless of the intentions of the parties involved, but as they say, where there’s a will

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Asides, Documentary

Man’s Best Friend

If Last Minutes with ODEN got to you, then you might want to steel yourself for Chris A. Neal’s heartfelt farewell to Griffey, Man’s Best Friend.

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Herz aus Glas

If you’ve been wondering what to do with all those old CRT monitors you’ve been hanging onto for some reason, you should follow in Franco

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Music Video

Alan Wilkis: Old-Fashioned Girl

For the fourth instalment in Alan Wilkis’ PRINTS series of singles, the Brooklyn-based music producer teamed up with Michael Lawrence, who put aside his

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Animation

Sugarcube

A coffee soaked Sugarcube sparks memories of sweet treats and a bitter first love in Sara Gunnarsdottir’s debut animation.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Northern Bells: Animal Kingdom

Filmmaker Eric Power, he of the mad paper animation skills, turns his talents to the service of Northern Bells for the tragic (or is it?) tale of three strange

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Animation

CHERIE 25

Celia Rivière directs Charlotte Gastaut’s carefree character through a day of New York Spring fever in this playful mix of live action and animation

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Art & Fashion

Yellow Darkness

German photography David Zimmermann’s fashion film Yellow Darkness stakes out its abstract narrative ground in the field of professional sport as a

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Documentary

A Man in the Box

“For me cinema is a community experience and the projection is a very important part of it.” A working projectionist discusses his career and love

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