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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.

Live Action, Podcasts

DN318: The Knife That Killed Me – Kit Monkman & Marcus Romer

DN talks to directors Kit Monkman and Marcus Romer about their adaptation of Anthony McGowan’s best selling novel 'The Knife That Killed Me', shot entirely

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Live Action

Ferand Peek Reframes the Sci-Fi Short for his One-Shot Film ‘Mis-Drop’

Combining a knowledge of the sci-fi genre and a spot of lateral thinking, New Zealand director Ferand Peek's short 'Mis-Drop' is a compelling, claustrophobic

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Art & Fashion

Alessandro Bertelle Questions Our Realation to Reality in Experimental Short ‘A Subjective Story of an Object’

In his experimental short 'A Subjective Story of an Object' Alessandro Bertelle explores how we perceive objects in a reality in which our faulty senses

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Live Action

Brudder Films Present a Grin-Inducing Look at the Awkwardness of Puberty in ‘Foureyes’

Siblings Tyler & Conor Byrne of Brudder Films new short Foureyes is an impressive, grin-inducing look at the awkwardness of puberty. DN sat down with director

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Animation, Music Video

Watch an Alternative Reality Deconstruction of London in Dan Kokotajlo’s ‘FMK’ for Matthew Wilcock

Composer & sound designer Matthew Wilcock and director Dan Kokotajlo new collaboration 'FMK' is an impressive experimental EP launch film which digitally

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Music Video

Matt Lambert Brings Trouble & Strife to Berlin’s Pre-Unification Generation in ‘Die Alphatier Trilogie’

Matt’s latest assault on refined sensibilities is 'Die Alphatier Trilogie' – a triplet of shorts created for actor turned musician Westernhagen, which

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Live Action

Repressed Emotions Boil Over in Chris Shimojima's '6-minute Mom'

In Chris Shimojima’s '6-minute Mom', a woman reconnects with her absent mother and discovers that even the sturdiest of emotional walls can be breached. DN

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Live Action

Joseph Catté Let’s the Fake Blood Flow in Horror Short ‘Like a Doll’

Replete with fountains of gore from its opening moments, Joseph Catté’s horror short 'Like a Doll' sees a young women engaged in a deadly pitched battle

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Hawaii & Smith Get Random with Oh! Tiger Mountain for Storytelling Experiment ‘The Start of Whatever’

Directors Hawaii & Smith take us through their collaboration with DIY space crooner Oh! Tiger Mountain for storytelling experiment 'The Start of Whatever' - a

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Animation, Live Action

Hili Noy & Shimi Asresay Hold a Mirror to Racism in Animation ‘Strange Fruit’

Channelling firsthand experiences of racism in their own lives, Shimi Asresay and Hili Noy decided to tackle the subject in their allegorical animated thesis

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Documentary

Monika Delgado & Mickey Todiwala Share Their Curiosity for the Unknown in ‘Green Mansions’

We’re no strangers to the portraits of place films created by Monika Delgado & Mickey Todiwala, so given the opportunity to experience the Amazon Rainforest

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Music Video

Stalking the Life of the Lonely in Michael Venus’ Music Video ‘The Hunt’

Set in a retail hinterland where cheap rents rule and all your diverse purchasing needs can be met, a forlorn woman finds her activities shadowed by a

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