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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

Massive Swerve

Artist Robert Valley’s animation Massive Swerve may not have won any awards or been select for any festivals, but it does perfectly capture the

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Animation, Music Video

CHLLNGR: Change

Chad Turner and Ryan Todd strap on their space suits to provide a glitchy hit of cosmic animation dub style in Change for Copenhagen based Dub / Electronica

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Animation, Live Action

After The Beep

Past DN guest Katy Davis has come up with a creatively novel way to combine her animation skills with the random voicemails of strangers in After The Beep Get

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Documentary

Tumblr Steps into Video Creation with Storyboard

With a user base in excess of 52 million blogs it’s easy to imagine that tumblr could happily coast along doing what it does without feeling the need to

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Animation, Asides

Amnesty International: 50 years

In our earlier interview with Director Carlos Lascano, we discussed the parallel production of his personal project A Shadow of Blue and the Amnesty

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Animation, Podcasts

DN245: A Shadow of Blue – Carlos Lascano

Ever since I (and 9 million+ others) saw Argentinean director Carlos Lascano’s A Short Love Story in Stop Motion I’ve been dying to get him onto DN

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Animation

Soundsculpture No. 1

Sound may often be the overlooked critical factor of filmmaking but Kevin Wideman puts it front and centre in his collection of four minute long animations

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Music Video

Father John Misty: This Is Sally Hatchet

If you think making pizza is an occupation free from danger or excitement you’ve obviously never seen the way director Grant James puts it together for

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Animation

Cold Country

Created as an allegory to capture the essence of Joseph Stalin, Chris Palmer and Travis Overstreet’s beautifully animated short Cold Country sees a

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Animation

Living Room

Andreas Kaufmann reveals the secret musical life of chewing gum in his stop motion short Living Room.

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Animation

Tall Tales: Part 1

The first part of Kilogramme’s Tall Tales series of animations is proof that children should take what adults tell them with a healthy pinch of salt.

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Animation

Arithmétique

Anyone who’s emerged bruised and batter after a confrontation with Maths will relate to the lead of Giovanni Munari and Dalila Rovazzani’s

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