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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

Battles: My Machines

Take it from someone who’s had a trainer eaten by an escalator (I was six, my lace got caught and the only reason I can now buy pairs of shoes is due to

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News

WeAreDN Vimeo Channel

Yes the title says it all, DN now has its own bonafide channel on the glorious home of filmmaking that is Vimeo (and as you can see we’re in mighty fine

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Music Video

Jumeee: Back to the Future

If you were commissioned to create a promo for a track called Back to the Future, which blasted its synth sound loud and proud, and harkened back to the 80s;

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN216: DOS – Stathis Athanasiou

This week not only did I get to talk to returning DN guest Stathis Athanasiou (DN036 & DN100) about his debut feature DOS, but we hit a DN double

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Live Action

TUB

Last year, I was inexplicably drawn to a short with the tagline: Paul jerked off in the shower. Paul just impregnated his bath tub. That short turned out to be

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Asides, Documentary

LAUGHS!

Those Everynone folks are back with a collection of YouTube clips that reminds us you’re never to young, old or in between to have a good old side

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Animation, Music Video

Benbo: I Don’t Have a Lot to Say

Tony Johnson’s animated promo for Benbo sees the ukulele playing singer enchanting creatures of the forest with his melodic rendition of I Don’t

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Music Video

Ungdomskulen’s Gimme Ten

A mini-album for those of us suffering from MTV conditioned attention spans, Norwegian trio Ungdomskulen’s Gimme Ten comprises 10 tracks all clocking in

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Animation

Glens Gloves

Before Mikey Please’s The Eagleman Stag so impressed El Vez in the animation category of this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts there was Glens Gloves; a

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Art & Fashion

Lanvin Fall 2011 Campaign

It’s been a while since our last fashion related post but we couldn’t resist the Steven Meisel / House and Holme promo for Lanvin’s Fall 2011

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Live Action

The Way To Go

When a girl breaks your heart, you can either go quietly in to the great unknown or make a statement she’ll never forget; either way it helps if

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Documentary

Way of the Morris Cinema Release

Back in March I travelled out to Austin, Texas for the SXSW film festival and met up with director/actor/writer Tim Plester to chat about the feature

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