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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.

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WeAreDN Hits 1000 Videos

Late to game, perhaps? Work shy, never! We may have only got our act together last September and finally launched the WeAreDN Vimeo Channel, but El Vez and I

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN236: Solipsist – Andrew Huang

Director Andrew Huang joined us in 2007 with his experimental short Doll Face. He’s back today with the online launch of his captivating art film

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Animation

The Academic's Ornery Beard

Matt Reynolds’ Flash animation The Academic’s Ornery Beard, sees a man’s facial hair determined to relocate to pastures new.

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Documentary

The Beauty of a Second: Instant Bliss | Night and Day

The 2nd and 3rd round compilations of The Beauty of a Second competition remind us that great filmmaking is made up of moments of beauty.

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Animation

Ethics for the Starving Designer

Everything we come into contact with ever day was at some point along its journey designed, which gives designers as a whole a vast amount of hidden power over

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Awards, Live Action, Podcasts

DN235: Chalk – Martina Amati

We’re joined this week by BAFTA winning director Martina Amati to discuss her recently BAFTA nominated short Chalk, set on the verge of puberty, within

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Documentary

Internet Story | Bradley Manning Had Secrets

Taking a not too dissimilar approach to what we saw in Smith & Foulkes’ The Chase but ramping up the mysterious narrative, Adam Butcher’s

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Live Action

Kitchen Sink Drama

Is Nicholas Clifford’s Kitchen Sink Drama the worst marriage proposal ever? Possibly, but it’s also one of the funniest shorts I’ve seen in a

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Live Action

Jack Turits

I’m ashamed to admit that my film discovery powers must be in need of a major tuneup, as if I’m only just discovering the work of New York City

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Art & Fashion

I Am Your Grandma

If terrifying your future grandchildren from beyond the grave is something that appeals to you Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva’s I Am Your Grandma lays

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Music Video

Beirut: Vagabond

You know how people hearken back to simpler, more restrained times, back when folks knew how to enjoy themselves without it descending into debauchery? Well

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Animation

InsideOut

Rachel Mouawad gives us a peak at a woman slipping InsideOut into something more comfortable after a night of looking fabulous.

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