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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

The Salvation Army: Clothing, Food & Shelter

Johnny Kelly, he who gave us hope for sustainable farming with Back to the Start, has created three brilliantly simple ads – Clothing, Food &

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Art & Fashion, Asides

CRUSH

Rachel Antonoff and Bianca Giaever transport us back to Boston 1972 for the hesitant beginnings of what will become a lifelong CRUSH for Rick & Shira Wall

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN304: Delicate Gravity – Philippe André

In Philippe André’s latest short Delicate Gravity, a wrong number leads to an encounter full of potential for two people who have missed something in their

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Egg & Fag

It’s hard to fully articulate what makes Rose Hendry’s Egg & Fag so great. Perhaps it’s Emily Milne’s challenging stare straight

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Animation, Asides

Conan Season 3 Supercut

The ever visually enthralling Cyriak gets his creative hands on Conan O’Brien for what has to be the greatest season supercut of all time.

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Music Video

Alex Amoling & Hammock Get Dark for ‘I Could Hear the Water at the Edge of All Things’

The last time we mentioned DN directing fave Alex Amoling in conjunction with ambient/post-rock two piece Hammock, it was on the back of his successful

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Asides, Live Action

I-DIOTS

They may be able to compute Pi to 1 billion places faster than we can blink, but when it comes to the latest bit of shiny tech or the hottest new viral app,

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Asides, Music Video

Queens of the Stone Age: The Vampyre of Time and Memory

Kii Arens & Jason Trucco team up with Darknet to make an online interactive experience for Queens of the Stone Age track 'The Vampyre of Time and Memory'.

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Asides, Music Video

The mOOnbird: Olaf

MR Blackman slips beneath the veil of the ordinary into a nightlife full of eerie vignettes and lonely souls for The mOOnbird’s track Olaf. “In an open

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Music Video

Revenge is a Dish Best Served Baked in Thanasis Tsimpinis’ DUST

Mother/daughter relationships can sometimes be a tempestuous affair fraught with the powerful exchange of amplified emotions threatening to consume everything

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Animation

Florian R. Panzer Challenges Us to Dismount Our Dead Horses & Create

We’re suckers for a good title sequence here at DN and you could say that animation is also very close to our hearts, so it was pretty much a foregone

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Asides, Live Action

Deader Than Dead

Isaac Ravishankara chills and impresses in equal measure with his otherworldly short Deader Than Dead

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