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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

Snowden: The Beat Comes

On seeing a call for promo treatments on Facebook from Snowden, director John Merizalde shifted his focus from the celestial heights of record breaking

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Art & Fashion

Robert Hodgin at Eyeo 2012

What does science look like? It’s a strange question I know, but if you were to take some of physics’ leading theories and concepts and translate

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Documentary

Weak Men Pay This Boxing Coach To Tell Them They Are Terrible

You take a person of my calibre; I’m cut from leather, I’m cut from suede! Attendees of New York’s Church Street Boxing Gym get a one-two

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Documentary

Knucklehead

In his documentary Knucklehead Greg Brunkalla guides us through Joey Turman’s journey from homeless kid from a troubled family to member of dance crew

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Animation

What is Dead May Never Die

Kadavre Exquis (whose Childhood of a Circle was a DN favourite of recent months) presents a time capsule in which you will shortly explore many things such as

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Animation

A Good Wife

For his first foray into short films illustrator, artist and now filmmaker W. Scott Forbes delivers a beautifully measured animated tale of quiet betrayal in A

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Live Action

Y: The Last Man Rising

While there are exceptions to the rule, such Dan Trachtenberg’s live action short Portal: No Escape, by and large the term ‘fan film’ conjures

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN255: My Neighbourhood – Julia Bacha

This week we’re joined by director Julia Bacha whose latest film My Neighbourhood (co-directed with Rebekah Wingert-Jabi), continues her work at Just

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Asides, Music Video

Bat For Lashes: Laura

Noel Paul of DN music promo favourites That Go takes Bat For Lashes for a graceful spin round the theatre in Laura.

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Music Video

NO ZU: Emotion

Shot in the agricultural slash murky-coastal South Werribee Tooth & Claw’s Emotion promo for NO ZU captures in beautiful clarity the tedium of

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Music Video

Lord Cry Cry – Blind Lightnin' Floor

I think I’ve found the definitive rebuttal against any complaints of budget constraints stifling creativity in Francis Kamprath’s ingenious floral

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Art & Fashion

Illustration (The Finest Occupation)

Every time I think I’ve pinned down what type of filmmaker Temujin Doran is he comes back with a new piece that totally skews any presuppositions I had

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