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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, Podcasts

DN230: Left Right – Tom Willems

Most directors know that if they can concentrate on pulling great performances from their actors the battle’s half won, but it’s not quite that

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Animation

Word as Image

Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself. Rule: use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside

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Documentary

Welcome Home | The Shed

In his pair of film’s Welcome Home and Shed Isaac H Madge demonstrates that there’s little need to travel to far off, exotic locations when you can

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Music Video

Delilah: Love You So

Music promo director Emil Nava gives Delilah the simple but effective treatment for her track Love You So. https://vimeo.com/33060703

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Asides, Live Action

Pothound

Like a super stylish Littlest Hobo Christopher Guinness’ 'Pothound' gives us a dog’s eye view of our four legged hero as she keeps the city safe.

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Music Video

The Twilight Sad: Another Bed

It’s tough being a serial killer. Isolated, you meticulously toil away in obscurity, your greatest achievements going unrecognised. If only there was

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News

Vimeo Gets a Facelift

We, as I’m sure a lot of you guys do, spend a massive chunk of our online time on the mighty Vimeo hunting for the films that are DN’s bread and

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Music Video

Justice: On’n'On

Alexandre Courtes dusts off the perpetual scroll effect from his White Stripes Seven Nation Army promo and gives it an interstellar (and slightly NSFW) revamp

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Animation

Electroshock

It may well be true that with great power comes great responsibility, but unfortunately for Buck and the residents of Cactus Groove, his incarnation as

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Live Action

Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut

So, you remember the post El Vez wrote at the end of 2009 about the crowd sourced version of Star Wars: A New Hope recreated in 15 second chunks? Well, it may

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Music Video

Art vs Science: Higher

Director Dave Budge shifts his focus from immortalising rock Gods Barbarion, to helping Art vs Science infiltrate an alien sect with their secret agent skills.

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Live Action

The Laundromat

In case your mother failed to warn you about pretty women brandishing firearms Timothy Melville’s The Laundromat is a cautionary tale you may want to pay

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