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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

Table 7

Marko Slavnic’s short Table 7 takes the sinister eavesdropping setup we’ve become accustom to in films such as The Lives of Others and gives it an

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Animation

We Love Copenhagen

Created in the style of a snow globe holiday keepsake, We Love Copenhagen is Fabricio Lima’s farewell love letter to the city; modelled in Maya, animated

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Animation

Audience Calibration Procedure

If all the newfangled slickery of the current batch of iDevice games has you harking back for a simpler, 8-bit time, Superbrothers may just have something

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Live Action

Involuntary DVD

A man injured at his own party prefers to soldier on through the festivities rather than ruin the night for everyone else; a group of teenage girls pout, preen

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Documentary, Music Video

The Legendary: A Film About The Roots

Cam Be is perhaps overselling matters a tad by titling this The Legendary: A Film About The Roots; comprising as it does mostly concert footage of the hip hop

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Music Video

The Give

Eliot Rausch teamed up with talented newcomer Tommy Petroni to create The Give, a short film cradled by a live performance by Chloe Katerndahl. Recently we had

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN197: Involuntary – Ruben Östlund

Described as either a tragic comedy or comic tragedy, Ruben Östlund’s second dramatic feature Involuntary reveals how the individual often bows to the

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Animation, Art & Fashion

FOTB 2010 Titles

Working with the themes of attraction and repulsion, Nando Costa utilised macro motion pictures and a variety of materials with magnetic properties to convey

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Animation

Art in America: Brent Green

DN’s favourite animator Brent Green got a quality 10 page feature in last month’s issue of Art in America written by Saul Ostrow. I suggest you

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Live Action

Monkeys

Blue Tongue Films are back with a short, sharp and hairy film from Joel Edgerton, the Tropfest 2011 finalist Monkeys. https://youtu.be/esK1bCkRZnc

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Flicker Works in Development

Last week’s DN guest Matthias Hoegg clued me into Callum Cooper’s Flicker Works in Development as the subject of A six month portrait of an

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Documentary, Music Video

Everything Is Outta Sight

The weekends can be just as hard as the week, so here’s some beautiful music shot by Derrick Belcham and Vincent Moon of The Luyas playing from within a

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