Love Archives - Directors Notes

A Devastating Disease Forces a Couple to Make a Heart-Rending Decision in Ian Roderick Gray’s ‘Survive This’

Ian Roderick Gray describes melding surrealistic visual effects with a humanistic story of love, respect and dignity in his short film/music video hybrid.

Live Action, Premiere

Nathan Engelhardt’s ‘Your Curly Hair’ Beautifully Explores the Moments That Make a Relationship

Nathan Engelhardt talks us through using montage, whimsical voiceover and nostalgic 35mm film to create a fresh, unsentimental romance.

Live Action

Reinis Spaile Uses a Grim Milieu to Expose Mundane Relationship Cracks in ‘Young Love in a Dirty Place’

Reinis Spaile talks about his affinity for using film to capture the contrast between a bright young couple and their degrading love.

Music

Filip Zaluska Tells a Tragic Love Story That May or May Not Have Been in Visceral RYSY Promo ‘Kilo’

Filip Zaluska chats about using busy yet seductive frames to render the tumult and fantasy of a doomed love affair in shifting perspective promo 'Kilo'.

Animation

How “Personal Experience” Inspired Anushka Naanayakkara to Create a Stop-Motion Love Story Made From Wool

NFTS graduate Anushka Naanayakkara joins us to discuss the inspiration and production behind BAFTA-winning stop-motion short film 'A Love Story'.

Animation, Asides

Contact

An accidental phone call sends a woman into a warm reverie about a past summer of love in Léa Bancelin’s beautifully animated EMCA grad short 'Contact'.

Asides, Live Action

Sugar Off The Button

Pope opens our hearts in short film 'Sugar Off The Button', an ode to the transformative power of love inspired by her recent marriage.

Music

Daniel Eceolaza Taps into the Power of Operatic Archetypes for Primal Love Story ‘Cantami’

Daniel Eceolaza shares how a house in the middle of nowhere became the perfect setting for his epic romance music video for Anna Netrebko’s ‘Cantami’.

Animation, Asides

Love is Love

Composed of contributions from 120 artists, Kyra Bartley's 'Love is Love' celebrates the diverse range of permutations of this most universal of emotions.

Live Action

Jordi Estrada Bids Farewell to Love in Lyrical Heartbreak Short ‘As We Die’

Jordi Estrada tells DN how he channeled heartbreak into a lyrical contemplation on love and loss in poetic breakup short 'As We Die'.

Asides, Live Action, Music

Bring Me Down

A heartbroken woman drowns her romantic sorrows by embarking on a magical journey to relive her past relationship in Alexan Sarikamichian's new short.

Live Action

Transcend the Boundaries of Love & Memory in Adrien Lhommedieu’s Sci-Fi Romance ‘Lila & Valentin’

DN sat down with Adrien Lhommedieu to discover how he brought his ambitious metaphysical rumination on the nature of love and consciousness to screen.

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