Experimental Tag Archive

Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN141: Body – Zhivko Dimitrov

It’s often hard to pin down the original intentions behind an experimental piece of work, which can sometimes leave the viewer feeling perplexed and

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN136: Khoda – Reza Dolatabadi

The field of animation is probably the most labour intensive means of filmmaking, but even by those standards most projects look like a breeze when weighed

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Animation, Asides, Music Video, News

Basement Jaxx Call in Max Hattler

If you’re a regular round these parts you know I have a massive love for the work of visual artist Max Hattler (DN074 & DN119), so I wasn’t at

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN133: The Patterns Trilogy – Jamie Travis

Sometimes filmmakers come pre-recommended, which often brings the potential for huge disappointment when I eventually get to view their raved about work.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN132: The Reason I Collect – Emma Curtis

This week’s guest director Emma Curtis returned to the world of animation following the success of her 2005 installation piece Diary of a Hoarder and the

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Psst!

In my opinion, there’s not much in the world of film than can top a short film created by a talented team of Artists……Although a short film created by 3

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN128: Copy City – Denise Hauser

Filmmaker, animator and illustrator Denise Hauser joins us to discuss how she stretched the creative limits of filmmaking with her mixed media piece Copy City,

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN125: Globe Street Video Challenge – Sébastien Abes

This week director Sébastien Abes joins me to discuss his creative and sometimes experimental approach to shooting and editing skate videos. Globe: Street

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Music Video, Podcasts

DN123: Place – Matt Clugston

Set a film to the sounds of the never far from my recent playlist Boards of Canada and you run the risk of provoking hatred if you fail to do the track justice

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN120: The Arrow’s Paradox – Jorge Caballero

It’s rare (if ever?) that a short will take neo-classical economic theory as inspiration for its themes but this week’s director Jorge Caballero

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN119: Aanaatt – Max Hattler

I’m always pleased to catch up with past DN guests on the show as it means they’re still creating work I want to share, but this time round

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN117: Lovers – Carl Zhang

Well after a couple weeks of holiday slackness I’m pleased to kick off the new year of Directors Notes with an interview I’ve been looking forward

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