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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, Podcasts

DN187: BRILLIANTLOVE – Ashley Horner

Regularly compared to Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs due to its depiction of sex, Ashley Horner’s second feature about a couple in all consuming

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News

Sponsume Crowdfunding

All we (or anybody else) seem to be banging on about these days is crowd funding and how it’s the filmmaking wave of the future now. Whilst there are new

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Animation

Mindplotter / 458nm / Loom

Organic, mechanical animations from Polynoid.

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Animation

Nowhere Near Here

If life is a catwalk, run like a dog. – Pahnl

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Music Video

Warpaint

Today’s musical post is dedicated not to a single director but to Warpaint, one of the most interesting bands to come along in a while. I plan to lock

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Contakt

João Lucas’ experimental short film 'Contakt' explores the transformations which occur when different bodies meet one another.

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Animation

The Missing Sock & Two Sizes Too Big

Austin Hillebrecht’s animations may not be the richest in terms of story, but they display both an interesting visual style and a sense of dark fun which

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Art & Fashion

POP – Abbey Lee Kershaw

A girl on a motorcycle. Ahh go then, I’ve got to also post the trailer for Jack Cardiff’s psychedelic 60s feature The Girl on a Motorcycle, that

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Film Festival, News

Zipangu Fest: Nippon Year Zero

Oh what to do on a chilly Tuesday night in London? The answer you’re obviously searching for is; watch the very best Japanese independent and

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN186: PS Your Mystery Sender – Benjamin Wigley

World renowned fashion designer Paul Smith has been receiving random objects through the post for the past 20 years from person(s) unknown. Long time DN friend

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Street Dance

Robin Cantrell’s cracked the secret formula for getting featured on DN; Film people dancing in the street and soundtrack it with Grizzly Bear, simple as

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Live Action

Diente por Ojo

If you’ve spent anytime studying or reading about film chances are you’ve come across someone describing it as a ‘visual medium’. The

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