Art & Fashion Category

Chiara Feriani Brings Popovy Sisters’ Beguiling Haute Couture Art Dolls to Uncanny Life in CGI Short ‘Human?’

Animation, Art & Fashion

22nd July, 2020

Chiara Feriani takes DN through the 4 month long challenge of breathing digital life into the Popovy Sisters' beguiling art dolls in CGI short 'Human?'

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Idris Fassasi Forces Us to Ponder Our Prejudices With a Twist on a Classic Text in ‘SHE’

Art & Fashion

15th July, 2020

Director Idris Fassisi talks to DN about his Shakespeare inspired short 'SHE' and how his chosen themes perfectly reflected our turbulent times.

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The Gasser Brothers on Creating a New Type of Music Film with ‘Eclipse’

Art & Fashion

9th July, 2020

Blending the music video form with stock footage, desert scenes with Yoruban voiceover, the Gasser Brothers' 'Eclipse' is a heady audiovisual experiment.

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Fede Canal Santiangeli on How Visual Poem ‘Absolution’ Deconstructs Traditional Masculine Roles

Art & Fashion, Premiere

22nd June, 2020

Setting Rodrigo Molinero's poem to a series of bold images, Fede Canal Santiangeli discusses creating a reverie on outmoded masculinity in 'Absolution'.

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Ayla Spaans Tells an Expansive Love Story Over the Course of One Evening in ‘When We Were Strangers’

Art & Fashion

12th June, 2020

The lifetime of a relationship is distilled over the course of a hypnotic house-party in Ayla Spaans' experimental romantic drama 'When We Were Strangers'

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Sendoa Cardoso Contemplates the Perennial Concept of Loneliness in Experimental Garden-Set Short ‘Solo’

Art & Fashion

9th June, 2020

Sendoa Cardoso ponders the principles of loneliness amongst a garden of bountiful flora for his introspective experimental short 'Solo’.

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Diana Antunes Unlocks the Past Through the Memory Infused Spaces We Inhabit in Dance Short ‘Desabitar’

Art & Fashion

4th June, 2020

Her first production in a socially distanced world Diana Antunes reveals how she overcame the challenge of creating dance film 'Desabitar' at arm's length.

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The Legendary Bustle of NYC’s Penn Station Is Probed in Scott Lazer’s Frenetic Visual Essay ‘Commute’

Art & Fashion

3rd June, 2020

Scott Lazer reveals how he tactically avoided the cops whilst shooting his visual essay about the busiest train station in the western hemisphere.

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Victor Claramunt Contemplates the Route Back to Closeness in ‘The End of Social Distancing’

Art & Fashion

11th May, 2020

Victor Claramunt tells DN how he repurposed the traditional director's reel format to create stylish quarantine film 'The End of Social Distancing'.

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WeAreDN // Lockdown: Techlash

Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action

26th April, 2020

This week’s WeAreDN // Lockdown shorts remind us that an over-reliance on our always connected algorithmically fed screens isn’t without its downsides.

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How Justin Daashuur Hopkins Hand Crafted a Beguiling Ode to Isolation for Blake Mills’ Haunting ‘Vanishing Twin’

Art & Fashion, Music

24th April, 2020

Justin Daashuur Hopkins reveals how he created a collection of self-playing kinetic sculptures and instruments for beguiling music video 'Vanishing Twin'.

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Out of Comfort Reclaim an Identity Outside the Bonds of Conformity in Kinetic Fashion Short ‘The Heist’

Art & Fashion, Premiere

17th April, 2020

Cinematographer/co-creator John Ross takes DN inside the making of 'The Heist', an exhilarating fashion film statement of liberation from Out of Comfort.

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