Music Archives - Directors Notes

Bottled up Emotions Become Primed to Explode in Andrew De Zen’s Freeing Dance Short ‘Let This Feeling Go’

Andrew De Zen explains why 65mm film was the perfect format to capture the grand yet intimate story of his short about a woman who finally lets herself loose.

Documentary

Neil Fox Posits Why Concert Films and Music Docs Transcend Brand Marketing in New BFI Book ‘Music Films’

Neil Fox talks about shifting perspectives on cinematic depictions of music artists while assessing the role of these undersung films in the creation of myth.

Article

Multi-Award-Winning Composer Hollie Buhagiar on the Art of Crafting Bespoke Scores for Film, TV & Games

Hollie Buhagiar reveals her approach to composition, her feelings about temp score and AI music generation, and the joy of experimenting with new instruments.

Documentary

Five Decades of Songwriting Comes Together in Oliver Murray’s Doc ‘Now and Then: The Last Beatles Song’

Oliver Murray explains why it was important to be concise and economical with the storytelling in his doc about the creation of a legendary Beatles song.

Music Video

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.

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 Video

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'.

Animation, Music Video

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'

Art & Fashion, Music Video

Herz aus Glas

If you’ve been wondering what to do with all those old CRT monitors you’ve been hanging onto for some reason, you should follow in Franco

Animation, Music Video

Scars

Kristof Luyckx shifts his animated focus from preening peacocks to hard rocking apes (who sound rather a lot like Black Spires) in jam session Scars.

Art & Fashion, Music Video

Cliff Dweller

A mix of music and videos from the LA based Ari Balouzian and a collection of collaborators – in this case Oliver Bernsen (When We Get To Heaven),

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