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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.

Music Video

FluteGroove

Ape-faced kids teach us how not to follow the rules of the road in Kurt Lorenz’s repurposed PSA footage piece.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN196: Thursday – Matthias Hoegg

Animation director Matthias Hoegg joins us this week to discuss his BAFTA nominated, not so distant future short Thursday and the inspiration that’s

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Animation

Wolverine Vs The Hand

You know how I lost my composure and became a slathering fan boy for Daniel Kanemoto’s unofficial Walking Dead title sequence? Well I’m trying hard to

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Animation

Ishihara

Yoav Brill’s graduation piece for Bezalel, the Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, is a creative piece of animation that uses Ishihara color test

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Art & Fashion

Butterflies feat. John Malkovich

“I have this idea in my mind for a painting about butterflies. Blue and green and yellow butterflies, tumbling out of my brain. I think it’s going to

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Documentary, Music Video

Eran Hilleli: 1981

If I was forced at gunpoint to list my favourite animators featured on DN throughout the past 5 years, there’s little doubt that Eran Hilleli would make

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Music Video

Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands: Wintertime's Doll

Undeniably beautiful but at the same time unsettlingly creepy promo from Sophie Gateau for the Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands track

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Sync

Max Hattler sets his canvas to the celestial scale for 'Sync' which represents the life of the universe, from big bang to present day.

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Awards, Live Action, Podcasts

DN195: LIN – Piers Thompson

A man true to his word, director Piers Thompson returned to DN to discuss ‘the Bulgarian experience’ that was the filming of his BAFTA nominated

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Slick Horsing

Exactly what’s occuring in the flicking dark amid the disembodied screams of Kiron Hussain’s experimental short Slick Horsing is well beyond my

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Live Action

Kickstart Doctor Glamour

If you loved the hyper-drug madness of Neo-Mega-Ultra Tokyo’s premiere narcotics pusher, Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer you’ll probably be

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Music Video

Matt and Kim: Cameras

Matt and Kim’s band tensions boil over into instrument violence in Jonathan Del Gatto’s Cameras promo.

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