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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.

Music Video

Emmanuel Adjei Births a New Dark Religion of Materialism in One-Take Music Video ‘Give It Your Choir’

Emmanuel Adjei discusses transforming a self-storage facility into a near future dystopia for his impressive single-take Mark Pritchard music video.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Learn How Visual Artist Johan Rijpma Created Mind Bending Reflexive Animation ‘Extrapolate’

Visual Artist Johan Rijpma joins DN for a long overdue interview about his career and his latest mind bending, hyper-reflexive, hand drawn animation.

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Music Video

Kyle Lewis Maps Nasty C’s Journey of Past, Present & Future in Epic Music Video Triple Bill ‘Bad Hair’

South African Director Kyle Lewis talks about the creation of his epic triple threat, 14-minute music video for Nasty C's 'Bad Hair' album.

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Live Action, Music Video

I AM HERE Shatter Barriers Physical and Mental in Inspirationally Powerful Short ‘WALLS’

Filmmaking collective I AM HERE take DN through the intense shoot & multinational cross-border collaborations behind their powerful narrative music video.

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Documentary, Music Video, Podcasts

DN349: Matt Hopkins & Ben Lankester Document a Band Stuck in the Middle in ‘A Divorce Before Marriage’

Matt Hopkins & Ben Lankester's feature doc follows five-piece rock band I Like Trains as they struggle to breakthrough after losing their record deal.

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Documentary

Adapt or Die – A Daily Newspaper Embraces Its Digital Future in James Kicklighter’s ‘Digital Edition’

James Kicklighter documents how The Atlanta Journal-Constitution paper has reformed itself to embrace the digital tools that better serve its audience.

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Art & Fashion

Andrea Barone Blurs the Line Between Dream & Reality in Dance-Floor Desire Short ‘NIGHTLIGHT’

Andrea Barone joins us to talk about the super speedy shoot which enabled the creation of his seductive dance-floor desire short.

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Live Action

A Sexy Maid for Hire’s Unwelcome Revelation Sends Her Down the Rabbit Hole in Pope’s ‘Night of Natalie’

Pope puts a disquieting spin on her own personal experiences in a new short where a secret endangers a relationship & reality becomes unsettlingly elastic.

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Art & Fashion

Andrew De Zen’s Whirlwind Romance Fashion Film Presents Yo & Co’s New ‘Changing Direction’

Andrew De Zen discusses maintaining his narrative sensibilities whilst moving into the realm of fashion for new men's clothing line Yo & Co's launch film.

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Live Action

From Tragedy to Terror Nicolas Pesce Finds the Horror Within the Family Home in ‘The Eyes of My Mother’

Nicolas Pesce tells DN about the advantages of shooting his debut feature twice and why music videos were the perfect boot camp for making weird films.

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Music Video

Jonny Look & Thao Celebrate the Sovereignty of Self in Blistering Music Video ‘Meticulous Bird’

Jonny Look explains how he harnessed the unbridled energy of Thao’s onstage delivery into a blisteringly fierce yet surreal supermarket performance piece.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN348: Nickolas Duarte Discovers the Painful Past of the Man Who Paints Souls in ‘Jay’

Nickolas Duarte's doc provides a glimpse into the extraordinary and complex life of Jay Kyle Peterson, an abstract artist with an even more abstract past.

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