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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

In the Blackout

Love is complicated, especially when two inanimate objects, lost in an underground car park, find each other. This film tells the unlikely love story between

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Animation, Asides

Winning the Story Wars: The Myth Gap

It’s great to see an ever increasing number of authors and publishers embracing creative video projects as a means of promoting their wares –

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Art & Fashion

I Like To Make Things

Nathan Boey likes to make things, like his experimental commercial series iLife and this ridiculously impressive demo reel.

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Music Video

∆ (ALT-J): Breezeblocks

Ellis Bahl expertly plays with our expectations in his reverse dark promo for ∆’s (Alt-J) Breezeblocks.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Le Réveil | Le Banquet | Engrenage

Murielle Félix combines dance and pixilation in her visually playful experimental films Le Réveil (NSFW), Le Banquet and Engrenage.

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Music Video

MYPET: Pays to Know

Instructed by MYPET that the promo for their track Pays to Know should be “a non-narrative, dark, mood piece that incorporates animals”, director

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN258: Brothers – Larry Cohen

Short film Brothers takes a humorous look at the modern difficulty of communication between family members. Director Larry Cohen joins us to discuss, keeping

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Live Action

Bike ♥

We love cycling here at DN, whether it’s weaving through the city streets or going all out on the open road, so were particularly touched by Rick

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Music Video

Efterklang: Hollow Mountain

Oodis add album artwork and photography captured by Efterklang during their trip to Piramida to dream like cinematography for 'Hollow Mountain'.

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Art & Fashion

Points in Space

Made for last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival Benjamin Ducroz (who joined us way back on DN72 with his film 8) combines stop motion and time lapse

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Music Video

Susanne Sundfør: The Silicone Veil

Things get dark, then pretty weird in Luke Gilford’s NSFW promo for Susanne Sundfør’s new track The Silicone Veil.

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Music Video

Gotye: Somebodies – A YouTube Orchestra

So when El Vez caught up with Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know back in February, he was pretty stunned that in the seven months since he originally

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