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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

Gelato Go Home

You know how you never see ice cream vans once the Autumn leaves have began to settle. If you thought they were all tucked away in a garage somewhere,

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Music Video

MGMT: Your Life is a Lie

Tom Kuntz and MGMT crank the bizarre gauge up to max to let you know that everything you thought you knew is wrong in Your Life is a Lie.

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Live Action

An Abstract Look into the Lives of Others with Michael Sugrue in ‘Dalston’

We’ve really come to look forward to sharing new work from Michael Sugrue on the pages of DN. Although described by the director as ‘performance

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Animation

Contre temps

Contre temps is another meticulously crafted film to come out of Supinfocom. Created by animation team Jérémi Boutelet, Thibaud Clergue, Tristan Ménard,

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Music Video

Portugal. The Man: Modern Jesus

AG Rojas takes Portugal. The Man on a 15 state hunt across the forgotten parts of America over 20 days in his promo for Modern Jesus.

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Music Video, Podcasts

DN295: MeTube: August Sings Carmen Habanera – Daniel Moshel

A reverential tribute to all those earnest YouTube performers who give it their all regardless of filmic or musical talent, Daniel Moshel takes August Schram's

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Art & Fashion

Do Not Stare

Volkan Ergen sets an impressionistic, jump cut journey to the words of Turkish author and editor Pınar Deniz’s poem about her existence within a society

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Animation, Art & Fashion

1:1000

Armin Keplinger creates a skin crawlingly realistic kinetic sculpture from CG manipulated sunflower scans in 1:1000.

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Animation

Gravity

A creature tries desperately to hang onto the things he loves in Sohini Tal’s Bezalel academy animation Gravity.

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Film Festival, Live Action

HIFF: Love & Anarchy

If I had to name a filmmaker whose work has consistently left DN’s collective jaws agape, nine times out of ten the name which would jump to my lips is

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Live Action

Inseparable

In Nick White’s skilfully understated short Inseparable – which is currently attempting to make the jump to feature length – Benedict

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Music Video

The Naked & Famous: Hearts Like Ours

In his Hearts Like Ours promo for New Zealand’s The Naked & Famous, Campbell Hooper crafts a compelling series of visual motifs which beckon you

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