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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.

Animation, Music Video

Holly and the Wolf: Marzipan Reindeer

Tony Johnson ventures back into the forest but this time instead of a serenade for woodland creatures, he sets a lone girl in flight pursued by ghosts in the

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Animation

Merry Christmas From…

One of the delights Christmas has to offer is the animated seasons greetings from many of the folks we cover on DN throughout the year. And so here’s a

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Art & Fashion

Toyland

From the recently returned DN podcast guest, Kurtis Hough comes Toyland, a festive technicolor dreamland from The Ocean Floor.

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Music Video

Rhye: The Fall

A man lives out the dual realities of his vibrant past and stymied present in Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen’s pathos filled yet sublimely measure promo for The

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Music Video

Fist Of The First Man: Hertzbreaker Arc

I hope you like the look of Nathan Sussex because director Tom Betts keeps the actor’s face in front and centre close up throughout his promo for Fist Of

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN270: As I Am – Alan Spearman

A combination of portraiture and vérité, mixed with a poetically impressionistic voice over, Alan Spearman’s As I Am is one of the most powerful

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Limousine: La Gaviota

Animation and motion capture skills come together beautifully in Jerome Combe’s (slightly NSFW) enchanting and voyeuristic morning after the late night

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Music Video

Katy B: Got Paid

If you’re curious what hedonistic delights London has to offer on a Friday night, target=”_blank”Emile Rafael’s Got Paid promo for Katy

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Music Video

C2C: Happy

Wendy Morgan and C2C strike up an old school tent revival that would deliver even the wickedest of souls into the quick-stepping light of salvation.

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Animation

Humans Are Disgusting!

Turns out we’re pretty gross, thanks Aaron Rogers for makes us never want to get close to anyone (including ourselves) again.

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Live Action

Is The New

Brazilian directors Jarbas Agnelli & Doug Bello keep us on point with what’s in and what’s out in Is The New, their ad spot for Follow

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Animation

Spin

Has it really been over 2½ years since Max Hattler first teased us with his toy soldier animation Spin? Well like an early choreographed Christmas present

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