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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

Gravity // Un Rêve de Demain

Filip Piskorzynski & Natalia Dufraisse put pixilation to great narrative use in their story of a free spirit literally brought down to earth in 'Gravity'.

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Documentary

The Horror Portfolio

Hatinhand returns with a compilation of horror films that may have you watching from behind the sofa. Sixty-four horror movies in a five-minute montage; the

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Animation

Moving Pictures

Nadav Nachmany and Dror Shpatz set 2D and 3D realities duelling for dominance in this charmingly dark tale of prescription drug dependency.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN228: Tower Block – Nikias Chryssos

Nikias Chryssos’ short Tower Block is the exception to the rule of keeping shorts under the 20 minute mark. Running at nearly 40 minutes it’s an

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Animation

Mon Rêve

Vincenzo Lodigiani’s Mon Rêve explores the theme of insomnia, and how sleep becomes an obsession to those deprived of it: “There is a kind of cult

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Animation

The Joy of Books

Husband and wife Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp, a team of volunteers and 50 hours of book animation has resulted in a massively impressive ode to

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Documentary

Vowels

Temujin Doran provides music and beautiful cinematography for his short documentary Vowels; “based on an archival sound recording taken from the 1945

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News

DN 2011 Year in Review

So last year I told you that we’d put out the most amount of posts since DN began back in ’06. Well rather than resting on our laurels we took it

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Live Action

Fotoshop by Adobé

In today’s DN post director Jesse Rosten reveals the awesome beauty secrets of the stars!!! This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s

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Art & Fashion

SHE

If it’s ‘built, shot and edited by Craig Murray‘ then I’m all eyes and you should be too. Although be warned; here be monsters, NSFW

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Animation

Billy Jean Plexus

You may remember the Giant White Glove version of Michael Jackson’s Billy Jean performance and all the variations spawned by the white glove tracking

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Art & Fashion

Lost in Tokyo

Mark Bramley gets Lost in Tokyo for two days with his Canon 5D MkII and around 10,000 photos.

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