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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.

Art & Fashion

Fall in Love – Markus Lupfer / Spring Summmer 2013

Glen Milner casts gravity in a major role in free fall fashion show Fall in Love for the Markus Lupfer / Spring Summer 2013 collection.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN272: GLOW – Brett Whitcomb & Bradford Thomason

Director Brett Whitcomb & Writer Bradford Thomason join us to discuss how they brought the story of the beloved Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling to screen.

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Animation

Goodnight, Sweet PakMan

Last year we saw legendary game hero Pac-Man brought to live action life in a secret government lab. Now one-man animation studio Chris Weller brings us his

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Animation, Art & Fashion

A Very Large Increase in the Size, Amount, or Importance of Something Over a Very Short Period of Time

You know the year’s shaping up to be a good one when you get not one, but two new animations from Max Hattler. The verbosely named A Very Large Increase

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Music Video

I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper: Make Your Move

The bassist cannot rehearse. He has other kind of plans. Teemu Niukkanen and I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper recombine their talents to deliver an excellently

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Art & Fashion

L’Homme Grotesque

One day I dreamed a mouth that spoke to me from the heart of the galaxy. The geometric lines that composed it were fractals that intersected with a regular

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Asides, Music Video

El Sportivo & The Blooz: Waking World

Director Carlos Lopez Estrada is becoming somewhat of a regular here on DN, which is no bad thing at all. Our first glimpse at his work in 2013 sees a lone

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Music Video

Monarchy & Dita Von Teese: Disintegration

The powerful allure of untapped passion lies behind a facade of domesticity succumbing to the forces of Disintegration in Roy Raz’s promo for the

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Documentary

The Birth of a Tool: Axe Making

I never thought that I had even the slightest interest in seeing how an axe, chisel or knife was made, I was sorely mistaken! John Neeman Tools’ series

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Art & Fashion

limbic

Reminiscent of Max Hattler’s 2007 piece Drift, Manfred Borsch’s limbic – created for the Institute for Music and Media, Dusseldorf – is

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Art & Fashion

Dernière Nuit

Inspired by Garig Basmadjian’s 1973 poem, Dessil Basmadjian depicts a showdown between humanity’s actions and consequences in experimental short

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN271: Paul – Adam Bizanski

Israeli director Adam Bizanski’s live action puppet short Paul, tells the story of an alienated character searching for his stolen fish through the

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