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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, Asides, Music Video

Rone: Mirapolis

Aurélie Castex’s 'Mirapolis' music video sees a miniaturised man race through the city on his way to a private party thrown atop the shoulders of a giant.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Woman Finds Her True Direction in Albert Choi’s Meditative Reflection on Solitude ‘The Idea of North’

Albert Choi tells DN how he and his team of collaborators mapped out the cinematic journey of their meditative reflection on solitude 'The Idea of North'.

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Asides, Live Action

The Very Near Future

Sebastian Egert’s 'The Very Near Future' sees a man’s efforts to order a pizza frustrated by his digital assistant and newly updated T&Cs.

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Asides, Live Action

Lolz-Ita

A young woman has difficulty straddling the gulf between her confident Instagram persona and the vulnerability she feels IRL in Katie Boland's 'Lolz-Ita'.

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Asides, Music Video

Anna Calvi: Hunter

Matt Lambert explores the heady delights of self-pleasure in this highly intimate, sensual and of course NSFW music video for Anna Calvi’s 'Hunter'.

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Documentary, Music Video, Podcasts

DN359: Matthew Jones Charts the Rise, Fall & Redemption of James Lavelle in ‘The Man from Mo’Wax’

Matthew Jones takes DN through the hurdles he surmounted to bring the story of seminal record label Mo'Wax and its driven owner James Lavelle to screen.

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Asides, Live Action

Thawed

Jon Drever's comedy short 'Thawed' imagines what the future of cryogenics might look like for those of us who only have a limited budget to work with.

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Asides, Live Action, Music Video

Mary Komasa & The Dumplings: Jestem Kobieta (I’m a Woman)

Piotrek Matejkowski's 'Jestem Kobieta' for Mary Komasa & The Dumplings’ track for Puma’s #DoYou campaign is a manifesto of living life on your own terms.

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Animation, Asides

Elsewhere

A mother stands in the way of her daughter’s attempts to break away from the insolated life of her village in Junyi Xiao’s sublime short 'Elsewhere'.

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Animation, Asides, Documentary

One Day at a Time

Ruiting Ji uses charcoal animation to document the life of an ex-homeless man who found the strength to quit alcohol and change his life for the better.

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Film Festival

Directors Notes Reading & Leeds 2018 Cinema Tent Shorts

Team DN packs our bags along with some of our favourite shorts from the past year and heads out for our annual Reading & Leeds Cinema Tent screenings.

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Documentary

Gaul Porat & Skyler Fulton Look Beneath the Surface of Superficial Assumptions in ‘More Than the Sum’

Co-directors Gaul Porat & Skyler Fulton tell DN how they delved beneath superficial assumptions to reveal 'More Than The Sum' in their Adidas spec ad.

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