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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.

Documentary

THE FIRST 36 HOURS: An inside look at Hurricane Sandy

With a mix of citizen and professional journalists on the ground throughout the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, people across the globe were able to

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Music Video

Two Fingers: Vengeance Rhythm

Big Ted goes on a brutal rampage through toyland in Chris Ullens’s bloody promo for Two Fingers’ Vengeance Rhythm.

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Art & Fashion

MAELSTRØM

Back in 2009 DN alumni Tom Geraedts took us into the mind’s eye of a blind man in his mixed media short Eros. In his latest film MAELSTRØM, a lonely

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Starlet – Sean Baker

Sean Baker’s Starlet tells the story of a burgeoning friendship between a young woman and an elderly widow after a yard sale purchase brings them

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Asides, Live Action

Hard Hat

Before Flight of the Pompadour Karan Kandhari kicked off the A United Howl shorts trilogy with the award winning comedy Hard Hat.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Flight of the Pompadour – Karan Kandhari

The second instalment in A United Howl, Karan Kandhari’s trilogy of shorts about misfits, outsiders and loners, Flight of the Pompadour is a charming

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Animation, Art & Fashion

The Break-Up

Partizan director Valérie Pirson brings Edward Hopper’s Summer Evening painting to visually enthralling life across a variety of animation styles in The

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Dirty Projectors: Hi Custodian

I have no idea what the hell David Longstreth is expressing in the 20 minute film Hi Custodian that compliments his band Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Short Stories – Mikhail Segal

We spoke to Russian director Mikhail Segal’s at the London Film Festival about his second feature Short Stories; a collection of four narratives each

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Music Video

The Bloody Beetroots & Greta Svabo Bech: Chronicles of a Fallen Love

Mathy & Fran bring us a masked romance in their promo for The Bloody Beetroots & Greta Svabo Bech’s Chronicles of a Fallen Love.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Synthesis

Mykhailo Ivanchyshyn brings together a collection of warping, shifting spheres in Synthesis. This is my personal project which I began experimenting with step

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Punk – Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire talks to DN about experimenting with cinema in 'Punk', his intense portrait of a teenager trying to establish his identity.

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