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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, Premiere

Jessica Ashman Finds Acceptance of the Other in her BAFTA Winning Short ‘Fixing Luka’

Premiering online here at DN, Jessica Ashman’s beautifully intricate stop-motion short 'Fixing Luka' tells the affecting story of Lucy, a girl who believes

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Music Video

Love Runs Volatile Yet Tender in Sakari Lerkkanen’s ‘All These Years’ Music Video

Finnish Director Sakari Lerkkanen draws from a past spent living on the fringes, to deliver the deeply emotive tale of a couple’s fractious relationship for

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Music Video

Fermín Cimadevilla Repurposes Fashion Film Aesthetics for Music Video ‘Don’t’

Perfectly posed, beautifully shot and intriguingly alluring, Fermín Cimadevilla’s 'Don’t' for Chulius & The Filarmónicos track 'Do Not' is a music video

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Documentary

Documenting the Spark of Creation in Christopher DeSanty’s Fogged Clarity ‘Les Cheneaux Sessions’

Co-founder of arts review site Fogged Clarity Ben Evans and filmmaker Christopher DeSanty headed to Michigan's Les Cheneaux Islands with a group of talented

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Article

DN Top Ten Feature Films of 2014

We've crunched, calculated and collated the top ten lists of all DN's writers, which means we can now bring you a beautifully condensed list of the 10 feature

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Article

MarBelle Top Ten Feature Films of 2014

MarBelle takes a stab at distilling 2014's film viewing into a favourite top ten.

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Music Video

The Old West & the Hong Kong Gangster Join Forces for Henry Kaplan’s Poignant Short ‘Get Better Boss’

Director Henry Kaplan to take us behind the scenes of his poignant Hong Kong gangster short 'Get Better Boss, created for Deech’s Comfort EP.

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Animation

Animating a Friendship Not Bound by Dimensions in Péter Vácz’s Award Winning ‘Rabbit and Deer’

We discuss how Péter Vácz battled the pressures of tight timeframes & new techniques to deliver a universal story about the power of enduring friendship.

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Music Video

Take a Hypnotic Journey into the Mind in Craig Murray’s ‘Teenage Exorcists’ Music Video for Mogwai

DN catches up with Craig Murray to discuss how he went about creating a hypnotic journey into the mind in 'Teenage Exorcists' for Mogwai.

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AGYNESS DEYN (Lily O'Connor) BY PAUL STEPHENSON

Live Action

Bryn Higgins Brings the Jump Cut Hallucinatory World of Epilepsy to Screen in ‘Electricity’

Bryn Higgins tells DN how he used custom camera rigs and in camera effects to create a compelling look into the hallucinatory life of an epileptic girl.

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Live Action

A Yuppie & Nosferatic Ghoul Battle for Social Superiority in Nathaniel Lindsay’s Satirical Comedy ‘Green Eyed’

A successful yuppie finds himself locked in a battle of oneupmanship with a Nosferatic ghoul bent on usurping his social status in Nathaniel Lindsay's

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Documentary

Jake Saner Journeys into the Relationship Between Person & Place in ‘Spaces Part I: Interior’

Jake Saner collaborates with choreographer Ashley Robicheaux to explore the reciprocal relationship between person and space in 'Spaces Part I: Interior'.

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