UK Tag Archive

Live Action

Ben Hector Explores Fractious Mother Daughter Dynamics in Family Drama ‘Jo’

Director Ben Hector tells DN how working with established actors, both old and young, helped shape his awkward family drama short 'Jo'.

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Animation, Asides

Silent Conductors

Tom McCarten creates a poem-inspired personification of buildings through the use of hand-built sculptures and quirky animation in 'Silent Conductors'.

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Parklife 2019 Launch Film

Studio Moross get the hottest party in the neighbourhood started in their jam-packed animated launch film for Manchester festival Parklife 2019.

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Asides, Music Video

Adelphi Music Factory: Javelin (Calling Out Your Name)

A young drummer repeatedly runs late for rehearsal, building into a layered spiral of drumming, running and preaching in Fanny Hoetzeneder's 'Javelin'.

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Live Action

An Eager Sobriety Coach Tries to Wrangle an Uncontrollable Film Star in Freddie Hall’s Comedy ‘Dead to the World’

A filmmaker who's been making us laugh for a while here at DN, we finally caught up with Freddie Hall to discuss his new comedy short 'Dead to the World'.

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Asides, Music Video

Tom Walker: Just You and I

The inconvenient consequences of a drunken night before slowly warm into a day of romance in Caviar director Ollie Wolf's 'Just You and I' for Tom Walker.

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Animation, Asides

Sivan Talmor: Sad Heart

The ever impressive Karni&Saul send a woman out on an emotional journey along a sound wave in their animated music video for Sivan Talmor’s 'Sad Heart'.

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Animation

Discover How a Love for Natural Textures Led Emily Scaife to Create RCA Animation ‘Attraction’

Inspired by the textures in nature she'd been photographing Emily Scaife's 'Attraction' invites its viewers into the intricate world of insect attraction.

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Animation, Asides

Food Porn

15 UK students flex their filth muscles in Seed Animation Studio’s collaborative short 'Food Porn' - a scandalous collection of saucy animated scenes.

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Animation, Music Video

Heather Colbert Looks to “Enhance the Feeling of Magic” by Combining Animation Techniques in ‘How Have You Been?’

Rising star of stop-motion Heather Colbert returns to Directors Notes to discuss her animated music video for Tom Rosenthal track 'How Have You Been?'

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Asides, Live Action

Ford – The Future Is Built

DN regular Ian Pons Jewell lays out the practical steps which lead us to progress in his Bryan Cranston starring ad spot for Ford, 'The Future Is Built'.

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Animation

Astrid Goldsmith Looks to Paint a “Hopeful Vision of Post-Brexit Britain” in Stop-Motion Short ‘Quarantine’

Director Astrid Goldsmith joins us to discuss funding and the importance of fabrics in her stop-motion post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy 'Quarantine'.

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