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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.

Documentary, Podcasts

DN302: Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton – Jeff Broadway & Rob Bralver

After teasing the project a year ago on the podcast, Jeff Broadway and Rob Bralver return to DN with their latest feature documentary, Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton;

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Asides, Live Action

For My Mother & Columbiner Holmie

Not only do I have two new films from DN’s favourite agent provocateur Douglas Burgdorff, both of which are surprisingly ‘kinda’ safe for

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Live Action

Kip Kubin Washes the Slate Clean in Sci-Fi short ‘Each Time Again’

We all have certain patterns which we find ourselves returning to time and time again. Such routines provide a refuge from the inevitable stresses life throws

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Animation, Asides, Live Action

The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting Animated Bumpers

Doug Bayne puts classical paintings to comically irreverent use in this collection of animated bumpers created for Australian sketch show The Elegant

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Asides, Music Video

Snow Ghosts: Murder Cries

Sibling craft the dark tale of a condemned woman unleashing bloody fury on her pursuers in Murder Cries for London duo Snow Ghosts.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Julien Mier: Super Tropic Tramp

Japanese filmmaker Koji Aramaki animates a glorious medley of shapes and colours in this promo for Julien Mier’s Super Tropic Tramp.

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Live Action

Spike Morris & Oscar Hudson Strip Away the Trappings of Cruel Tradition in ‘The Hunt’

Throughout human history perpetrators of abhorrent practices have often been able to sheath themselves in a justification cloak of ‘tradition’

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Asides, Music Video

Hexis: Tenebris

Halloween may have come to a close yesterday but there was no way I could resist posting Craig Murray’s down right creepy exorcism promo for Hexis’

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Animation, Asides

Happy Meal Horror (with a side of chainsaw)

The last time we found ourselves in the company of one of Rocky Curby’s films, we discovered that in his alternate universe, robots could rise from the

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Live Action

Work Day’s Don’t Get Much Worse Than in Rick Glenn & Niles Heckman’s Sci-Fi Short ‘Supervised’

If you think your working conditions are a little draconian, your boss indifferent as to your well being and the pressure you’re under on the intense

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Animation, Asides

The Paranormal & Technology meet in Gian Mario Ortu’s ‘A M • N’

If the all powerful mega-corps who control the structural pillars of society turned their attention to the paranormal and its workings then the subsequent

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Documentary

Kickstart Benjamin Wigley’s Godfather of the Fantasy Coffin Documentary ‘Paa Joe & The Lion’

Nottingham director Benjamin Wigley is no stranger to the pages of DN, having joined the ranks of our interview alumni back in 2010 with his Paul Smith

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