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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.

Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Wrap Up

With a few weeks’ perspective (and a whole lot of sleep) on our side after the intense 10 days that was SXSW 2011, I asked DN friend Andrew Johnson, host

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Square

Square is Bryan Andrew Lee’s “narration of my life in geometric form,” and a beautifully restrained piece of graphical play.

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Music Video

Felix Cartal: World Class Driver

Why is that watching old people acting like the young makes for such compelling, yet disturbing viewing? I have no idea, but it’s used to great effect by

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN199: Meet Monica Velour – Keith Bearden

We’ve spoken to a lot of very talented shorts directors through the years and unfortunately, either through design or circumstance, very few of them make

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Art & Fashion

Bed of Moss

Kurtis Hough’s work has always contained strong elements of nature. Whether it’s his paintings and photography, his nature documentary re-edit

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Live Action, Music Video

Fight For Your Right: Revisited Trailer

It’s almost the weekend so how about another trailer for something we’re super excited about seeing…go on then. Could the real Beastie Boys

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Live Action

Melancholia Trailer

We’re not about the incremental movie updates here on DN but hell, Lars Von Trier is across the board one of our favourite (and constantly surprising)

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Live Action

PRECISION

48 hours can be a very long time, well that is unless you have to write, shoot, score and edit a kick ass 5 minute film called PRECISION, about a spunky time

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Bad Fever – Dustin Guy Defa

Much of what I decided to see at SXSW came from the recommendations of others, so when Andrew Johnson of MovieChatter called me up to insist I join him and the

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Convento – Jarred Alterman

Sitting somewhere between documentary and art piece, Convento looks at the work of Dutch kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and the restored monastery in

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Animation, Live Action

Joy of Destruction

Xaver Xylophon revels in our human desire to tear asunder in Joy of Destruction.

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Rapid Eye Movement

POWSKII blinks Tokyo into life to the sounds of Modeselektor.

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