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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

Kerry

Things aren’t necessarily as great as they seem for Maria Cortese’s Kerry. https://vimeo.com/18785331

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Film Festival

SXSW The Return…

A year ago, pretty much to the day, I hit the streets of Austin, Texas determined to find my way at SXSW for the very first time. It’s fair to say I was

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Art & Fashion

Feathers Are In

A little bird told Neiman Marcus that feathers are in. https://vimeo.com/20663961

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Animation, Music Video

Smog: Rock Bottom Riser

Hundreds of ink paintings form the basis for a dreamy and flowing animation, randomly moving from image to image we travel deep into the murk of a distant

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Music Video

Buck 65: Zombie Delight

Tell me, what could be better than everyone’s favourite rapping Canadian Uncle, Buck 65 fighting for survival amid a plague of the undead? That’s

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Documentary

The Hardest Fight

In John Hicks’ The Hardest Fight 70 year old boxer and bare knuckle fighter Dave Payne paints a picture of the deterimintion needed to be a boxer in the

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Documentary, Music Video

An Island

In the many years I’ve been attending gigs since being introduced to the wonders of live music, an unwritten rule of etiquette has persisted; in the warm

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Music Video

The Green Seed: Crack Kills – Sugartooth

Using TV heads and a clever selection of clips Sugartooth and The Green Seed try to convince us to kill our televisions.

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Music Video

Spoek Mathambo – Control

Stunning (and damn weird) black and white images from Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary for Spoek Mathambo’s cover of Joy Division’s Control.

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Animation

Giant Episode 3: Cloud

Celine&Yann return with episode 3 in their series of animations showing the hard time we humans give friendly giants. This time round a lonely cloud tries

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Live Action

Jonathan Entwistle on Independentfilmer.com

Seems to be the week for DN directors popping up in glorious video online. This time round our friend of the North Jonathan Entwistle discusses his approach to

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN198: Life Of Leopold – Victor Solomon

If you thought the ever-present LOLcat meme was fuelled by an army of hapless cat owners you were wrong. I caught up with past DN guest Victor Solomon, to

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