Music Archives - Directors Notes

Turkina Faso Envisages a Romantic Late-Night Odyssey in Her Dreamy Music Video for Herbert’s ‘Two Doors’

Turkina Faso reveals the formative experiences she had as a first-time narrative director on the set of her excursion through London beds, hearts and dreams.

Documentary, Premiere

Robin Trouillet Crafts a Portrait of a Hard Raver Who Goes Again the Grain in ‘Turning Man – 81RPM’

Robin Trouillet reveals how he created a three-dimensional portrait of a unique individual with an uncompromising spirit for his music documentary short.

Live Action, Premiere

Chloe Sarbib’s ‘Jensen’ Finds a Songwriter Struggling to Retain Her Sense of Self Before Taking Centre Stage

Chloe Sarbib explains why she deliberately engendered shifts in her directing style for her heartfelt music drama about identity and self-examination.

Live Action

Ray Smiling’s ‘Play This At My Funeral’ Extols Our Intimate Connections to the Songs in Our Lives

Ray Smiling describes co-opting the mixtape format to capture the symbiotic link between music and memory for his idiosyncratic series of vignettes.

Asides, Music

Luna

A young girl dreams her hard-working single mother as a larger than life magical creature in Giovanni Bolzani Valenzano’s homage to motherhood 'Luna'.

Speaking in Voltages Guillermo Irriguible

Documentary, Music

Guillermo Irriguible Loren Pays Homage to Analog Music with his Analog Short Film ‘Speaking in Voltages’

Shot on 16mm, Super8 & Hi8, director Guillermo Irriguible Loren joins us to discuss his ode to nostalgia and the golden era of analogue instruments.

Animation, Music

Les Monstres Search for Freedom From Oppression in the Darkly Esoteric ‘Staring at the Lines’

Creative studio Les Monstres share the production journey which led to their esoteric dystopian music video for Buvette's 'Staring at the Lines'

Documentary

Documenting the Spark of Creation in Christopher DeSanty’s Fogged Clarity ‘Les Cheneaux Sessions’

Co-founder of arts review site Fogged Clarity Ben Evans and filmmaker Christopher DeSanty headed to Michigan's Les Cheneaux Islands with a group of talented