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A Couple Investigate Their Mutating Cloning Ability in Peter Collins Campbell’s Sci-Fi Short ‘Variations on a Theme’

Peter Collins Campbell unpacks the wizardry behind the split-screen visuals of his short about a couple who can duplicate into new versions of themselves.

Live Action, Premiere

A Screenwriting Professor Experiences a Kafkaesque Descent in Harry Sherriff’s ‘Jeremy: A Nightmare’

Harry Sherriff returns to reveal how his creative development at the NFTS informed his latest nightmarish comedy about a man pitted against his doppelgänger.

Music

Alex Cook’s Ghostly Sci-Fi Short for Son Lux’s ‘Undertow’ Sees a Man Haunted by an Ethereal Doppelgänger

Alex Cook delineates the process of creating the VFX for the flowing, ghost-like liquid featured in his short film/music video hybrid for Son Lux.

Live Action

Michael Socha Sees Double in Uzo Oleh’s Gripping, Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Edicius’

Uzo Oleh details the motion control and in-camera practical effects he deployed to ask if we can trust our intuition in his moody sci-fi chamber piece.

Live Action, Premiere

A Woman Is Forced to Confront Her Inner Child in Cat Ventura’s Surprising Comedy ‘Holly Goes to Therapy’

"My biggest goal was the pace leading up to the reveal" A woman endures an unconventional therapy session in Cat Ventura's 'Holly Goes to Therapy'.

Live Action

Zack Campbell Gets Over the Vegas Prenuptial Jitters in Neon Short ‘Animal Fiction’

DN speaks to Zack Campbell about how a night of free form shooting led to ‘Animal Fiction’, his contemplative short about the nature of love and

Art & Fashion, Live Action

Crossing Genres Across a Culture of Subtraction in Ramón Ayala’s Fashion Sci-Fi Short ‘People Like Us’

Ramón Ayala tells DN how his fashion film transformed beyond genre into a sci-fi tinged improvised meditation on enduring love, culpability & otherness.

Asides, Music

David Bowie: The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Whilst we were more perplexed than impressed by the first promo to arrive from David Bowie’s forthcoming album The Next Day, Floria Sigismondi has

Music

Clubfeet: Everything You Wanted

Isn’t that always the way, you wait months for a doppelgänger style promo to come along then two arrive in the same day. This one comes from director

Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN257: The Animals – Angeline Gragasin

Angeline Gragasin joins us to discuss her surreal short The Animals, a film that plays with motifs of death and food to deliver a story which rewards those

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