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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.

Animation, Music Video

Kathryn Calder: Arrow

Jon Busby’s animated promo for New Pornographer/Immaculate Machinist Kathryn Calder’s track Arrow taken from her solo album Are You My Mother?

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Documentary, Music Video

An Island Teaser

I have no info on this outside of what’s included in the teaser description: Three months ago in August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon and

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Documentary

The Sal Giunta Story

The feature documentary Restrepo was one of Neil’s picks from his time at the Cornwall Film Festival 2010. The Sal Giunta Story is a part of the wider

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Animation, Documentary

I Love Stop Motion

Chloe Fleury loves stop motion and even though DN’s always had a crush on that particular form of animation, we think her film has made us love it even

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Film Festival

Two Days to UnderWire

Back in August we let you know that Gemma Mitchell and Gabriella Apicella were on the hunt for entries for their brand new female focused (but not exclusive)

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Documentary

Who is Leopold Bonar?

Victor Solomon’s premiere LOLcat Leopold Bonar is back to answer your most pressing questions: Who is Leopold Bonar? What is a LOLCat? Why do I have this

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Music Video

Soundscapes 2

Somehow, despite his full on music promo skills we’ve managed to neglect director Ace Norton on the pages of DN. For shame! Instead of backtracking

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Copy Shop

It wasn’t until coming across Georg Csarmann’s post during my regular Short of the Week catch up session that I realised one of the greatest shorts

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Animation

AIFF Opener

Our talented pal Andrew S. Allen from Short of the Week has taken some time out from touring his newest short The Thomas Beale Cipher across the festival

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Documentary

5 Hours with Woody & Last Minutes with ODEN

A powerful duo of films from Eliot Rausch’s forthcoming 8 LIVES Documentary.

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Animation

Abnormals 2

Creating a moving image from 89 sent photographs. The jerky animated stills work perfectly with the opening of Zu’s Obsidian. Just in case it

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Live Action

A Life on Facebook

A well told story from Maxime Luère of a man’s life as seen through the lens of Facebook. via Mini Cooper If that got you going, take a look at our own

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