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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

Efterklang: Raincoats + Robin Färdig

Why hasn’t someone got round to discovering the babel fish yet? If they had, I could be settling down to enjoy Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen’s free web

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News

DN 2010 Year in Review

2010 was by far our most prolific year of content since DN began (722 posts in total!), so if you haven’t been keeping up on a daily basis I can see why

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Music Video

Grossomodo: Adamantio

Sometimes straight forward and simple gets the job done – especially if you follow Ivan Castell’s lead and throw in a little After Effects magic to

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Article

DN 2010 Top Ten

Over the past week or so we here at DN have been listing our ten favourite films of last year, but with eight writers contributing there’s a chance

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Music Video

SUCKERS: It Gets Your Body Movin´

Darko Dragicevic and Amberley Productions return with their new promo for Suckers It Gets Your Body Movin´.

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Article

MarBelle 2010 Top Ten

OK, so here it is the list of the best films of 2010. I say ‘the list’ because obviously my selection isn’t subjective, it’s just cold,

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN189: The Dungeon Masters – Keven McAlester

Director Keven McAlester joins us for the final show of the year to discuss his feature documentary The Dungeon Masters, a look at three individuals who devote

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Art & Fashion, Asides

We Have Decided Not To Die

Daniel Askill’s ten minute experimental short We Have Decided Not To Die is one of the most visually arresting pieces I’ve ever seen. It’s a

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Animation

UNKLE – Runaway (Pointman Re-edit)

John Nolan brings Futura’s Pointman to menacing mechanical life for UNKLE.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Refraction / Refraction – The Alphabet

Jesse Zanzinger gets ultra-creative with oil and water.

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Animation, Podcasts

DN188: VOICES – Lee Kern

Today’s show sees the welcome return of artist, writer, comedian and filmmaker Lee Kern. Long term DN subscribers will know that this is Lee’s

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News

Vimeo Video School

So, you wanna be a filmmaker but despite your best efforts feel that you could do with a little guidance along the way to your auteurship? You could apply for

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