Restaurant Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

A First Date Gets Awkward When a Debate Over Eurocentrism in Food Arises in Werner Vivier’s ‘Fine Dining’

Werner Vivier explains the use of a voyeuristic one-shot framing device to subtly examine the theme of racism in food culture in his awkward first date short.

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Music Video

Dillon Francis Flies Through a Mind-Bending Involuntary LSD Trip in Parker Seaman’s ‘LA On Acid’

Parker Seaman walks DN through the construction of the mind melting scenes in his deliriously trippy music video journey through an LA Chinese restaurant.

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Awards, Live Action

Jessica Yu-Li Henwick’s Mobile Phone Shot BAFTA Short ‘Bus Girl’ Offers a Sumptuous Allegorical Look at Creativity

Jessica Yu-Li Henwick reveals how she balanced the roles of writer, director and actor in her BAFTA short about an aspiring young female chef.

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Live Action

Daniel Sorochkin Demonstrates How Not to Propose in Awkward Comedy Short ‘Check Please’

Daniel Sorochkin tells DN how he kept things visually interesting and awkwardly funny in his marriage proposal gone wrong comedy of errors short.

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