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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.

News

Green Man Forever

The folks over at Film Friends Forever are joining forces with the Green Man Music Festival for an evening of live music and film performances from Echaskech

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN136: Khoda – Reza Dolatabadi

The field of animation is probably the most labour intensive means of filmmaking, but even by those standards most projects look like a breeze when weighed

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Film Festival, News

Dislocation ’09

Last year past guest (and creator of the DN stings), Robin van Rijn launched the Dislocation Festival: two days of experimental music, films and cake of the

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN135: Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss – Sharlene Azam

Through her work with Canadian teenage girls, author Sharlene Azam discovered the emergence of teenage prostitution rings in affluent suburbs.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video, News

Basement Jaxx Call in Max Hattler

If you’re a regular round these parts you know I have a massive love for the work of visual artist Max Hattler (DN074 & DN119), so I wasn’t at

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN134: Mono – Richard Smith

This week sees us return to the Shooting People Film of the Month winners’ circle and an interview with BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Richard Smith,

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN133: The Patterns Trilogy – Jamie Travis

Sometimes filmmakers come pre-recommended, which often brings the potential for huge disappointment when I eventually get to view their raved about work.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN132: The Reason I Collect – Emma Curtis

This week’s guest director Emma Curtis returned to the world of animation following the success of her 2005 installation piece Diary of a Hoarder and the

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Animation, Podcasts

DN131: Zoo – Robin Bushell

The first episode of our collaboration with the mighty Shooting People and their Film of the Month series kicks off with Robin Bushell’s hyper-kinetic

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN130: K – Piers Thompson

Director Piers Thompson joins me this week to discuss the process of transforming the feelings of place and atmosphere the Isle of Sheppey evoked in him, into

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN129: Hirsute – A.J. Bond

Thanks to the Gut Check competition run by the fine folks over at Short of the Week, I got to see A.J. Bond’s smart time traveling short Hirsute and

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN128: Copy City – Denise Hauser

Filmmaker, animator and illustrator Denise Hauser joins us to discuss how she stretched the creative limits of filmmaking with her mixed media piece Copy City,

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