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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.

Documentary

VBS Meets Jack Bond

Although often overlooked in his native UK, radical producer and director Jack Bond has had a career that has spanned five decades and seen him work with

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Live Action

Dogtooth DVD

By the time I had an opportunity to see Yorgos Lanthimos’ second feature Dogtooth, it was already riding a wave of critical adoration, having played to

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Animation

An Important Message About the Arts

In light of the UK government’s proposed 25% cuts from arts funding, leading artists have come together around the Save the Arts campaign. Artist David

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Animation

Le vilain petit carré

Every felt out of place in this square world of ours?

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Animation

The Barberless Barber

via @JeanieFinlay

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Music Video

Sniper Twins: Chocolate Shoppe

Get your chocshizzle on with the Sniper Twins and Hershey’s.

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News

The Walking Dead

Despite being urged by practically all my comic loving friends for years to check it out, I only got round to reading Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead

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Music Video

ipad + Eye of the Tiger

I challenge you to show me anything as awesome as Jordan Hollender’s Eye of the Tiger promo.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Chiral

DN fave Robert Seidel is back with another piece of mind blowing experimental animation, this time commissioned for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei,

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN180: Horses – Liz Mermin

Penguins aside, it’s rare to see a documentary that solely focuses on the experiences of non-human protagonists. In her feature Horses, Liz Mermin spent

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Art & Fashion

Act Da Fool

You should know that if you ask Harmony Korine to shoot a film for you, you’re likely to get what he wants to give as opposed to something you dictate.

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News

The Jarman Award

Last month Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill were named as the four nominees with a chance of scooping Film London’s

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