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Redmond Bacon is a Berlin-based critic with opinions on all things film. He is a regular at festivals such as Berlinale and Locarno, going deep on the topics that matter. You can find him on Twitter @RedmondBacon or read his musings on film at journeyintocinema.com.

Descent

Live Action

Helen Takkin Breaks Down Using Drowning as a Powerful Metaphor for Depression in ‘Descent’

Helen Takkin breaks down the production process behind her powerfully deployed metaphor of drowning in devastating mental health short 'Descent'.

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Film Festival

The Ten Best Shorts of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020

For a mere £7.50 you can watch the entirety of the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival Programme. We suggest you start with these ten standout DN picks.

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Boys Night

Live Action, Premiere

James Price Brings All the Colours of a Real Night Out to Life in Father-Son Drama ‘Boys Night’

A son walks his father home in the tender, heartfelt, shocking, yet very funny 'Boys Night' — a great Glaswegian drama from director James Price.

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Directors Now

Article

Lewis Arnold on Creating Directors Now, An Essential Document for Filmmakers Breaking into the Industry

Lewis Arnold shares the impetus behind the Directors Now initiative, a 105-strong collection of filmmaker testimonies about breaking into the industry.

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0000E8

Animation

Yana Pan Uses the Power of Colour to Imagine the Experience of the Other in Animated Short ‘0000E8’

A strange colour knocks the world off-kilter in Yana Pan's delightfully strange animation '0000E8', an allegory for the experience of the Other.

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Live Action

Emma Doxiadi Pokes Fun at Knee-Jerk Reactions in Surveillance-Like Long Takes for Paranoid Drama ‘Automatic’

Emma Doxiadi reveals why the surveillance-like cinematography of 'Automatic' was the perfect frame in which to explore the power of knee-jerk reactions.

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Live Action, Premiere

Bartek Sozanski Captures the Insidious Effects of Brexit Stoked Far-Right Propaganda in ‘Live to Remain’

Made in the wake of Brexit-inspired far-right hate crimes Bartek Sozanski's 'Live to Remain' deftly explores what could lead someone to commit such an act.

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Live Action, Premiere

White Privilege Gets a Rude Awakening in TJ Noel-Sullivan’s Gripping Basketball Drama ‘On The Whistle’

We learn how TJ Noel-Sullivan used basketball to explore the conflict between white entitlement & Black authority in gripping hoops drama 'On The Whistle'.

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Music Video

Ignas Laugalis Blurs the Boundaries Between Fantasy & Reality in Fever Dream Music Video ‘Dusktime’

Ignas Laugalis takes DN inside the low budget 25 hour shoot day behind Beyond the Wash's neon-drenched fever dream of a music video 'Dusktime'.

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Music Video

Alissa Torvinen on Turning Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘I Know the End’ into a Bracing State-of-the-World Address

Alissa Torvinen tells us how she took the haunting music of Phoebe Bridgers and turned it into an eerie and deeply prescient music video.

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Killing Small Animals

Live Action

Marcus Svanberg on Creating a Chilling Silent Film with the Disturbing ‘Killing Small Animals’

Marcus Svanberg shares his process for creating the portrait of a disturbed woman in the dialogue-free chiller 'Killing Small Animals'.

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Glasgow Short Film Festival

Film Festival

10 of the Best from Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020

The Glasgow Short Film Festival showcases the need to incubate new talent in a time of fractured cinema-going. Here are DN's 10 favourites of the fest.

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