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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

Life Just Is: Photo Diary

As we may have mentioned before, DN friend Alex Barrett recently got the cameras rolling on his debut feature Life Just Is. Alex will be giving us the

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Live Action

Away We Stay

It fills me with a warm glow when companies decide to sidestep their traditional advertising routes or the forced down your throat product placement approach

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Music Video

CocoRosie: Gallows

Emma Freeman has created a hauntingly beautiful promo for CocoRosie’s track Gallows. Gallows is the second promo Freeman has made for the sisters, the

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Art & Fashion

Scrabble: The Block Project

Scrabble on a huge, surreal tower block scale from Ogilvy & Mather Paris. via redazril

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Animation

SEx, LOVe & shirt

Despite my complete and utter lack of understanding when it comes to the Spanish language, Alvaro C’s simple graphic animations come across loud and

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Music Video

LFO: Freak

I was starting to get the Friday blues and decided I needed a little LFO pick me to push me into the weekend. I’m sure you thought the same.

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Animation, Podcasts

DN185: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then – Brent Green

From the very beginning DN has been all about the work that we personally love and adore, so if I tell you this will be filmmaker, artist and creative genius

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Art & Fashion

Rad Hourani Collection #6

“I started imagining clothes the same way I started creating images: With a sense of curiosity and innocence driven by my no-background background. No

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Documentary

Re:WORDS

Using YouTube clips exclusively, Everynone have ‘reworded’ their film WORDS.

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Documentary

Slide

A slow motion marriage of longboard sliding and a glitch track, beautifully shot on a Canon 7D.

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Animation

Todor & Petru

Todor & Petru is a totally off the wall piece of stop motion animation, blended with some in your face 2D graphics. It was created at CRCR by a team of

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Art & Fashion

Dorian Dances Backwards

I’m often drawn in by things occurring in locations where they seem out of place, particularly people dancing. That’s (one of the reasons at least)

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