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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Jeremy Messersmith: Monday, You’re Not So Bad

Eric Power dispels those return to work blues with his delightful cut paper animated music video for Jeremy Messersmith's 'Monday, You’re Not So Bad'.

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Live Action

A Female Boxer Fights for Forgiveness in Evan Owen Dennis’ ‘Guerra’

Director Evan Owen Dennis tells DN how considerations behind the camera led to his engaging and emotionally tense boxing drama ‘Guerra’.

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Documentary

Revel in the Pure Joy of Pushing Machines Beyond Their Limits & Getting Really Dirty in ‘Mudfest’

Filmmaker Mike Bove tells DN how he and co-director Mitch Buss captured the limit pushing spirit of the mud loving, mechanical tinkerers of Mudfest.

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Live Action

A Man is Forced to Confront His Past Behaviour in Ryan Oksenberg’s Unnerving Short ‘Damage Control’

Ryan Oksenberg explains how location and cinematography combined with choreographed performance for his dark tale of buried guilt and overdue comeuppance.

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Live Action

A Pair of Filmmakers Cross the Line of Decency in Joe Burke’s Darkly Funny Short ‘Another Cancer Movie’

A pair of emotionally tone deaf filmmakers exploit family good will & illness for potential awards glory in Joe Burke's dark comedy 'Another Cancer Movie'.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Boy Fights the Stigma of Cowardice After Refusing an Invitation to Manhood in Phil Giordano’s ‘SUPOT’

DN speaks to director Phil Giordano about drawing on Filipino tradition and besting inaccessible locations for his coming of age short 'SUPOT'.

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Asides, Music Video

DJ Snake: Magenta Riddim

Gal Muggia & Vania Heymann deliver a rollocking tale of superstar Indian firefighters in this grin inducing promo for DJ Snake’s 'Magenta Riddim'.

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Music Video

Social Pressure Becomes Unforgiving Ritual in Merlin Camozzi’s Bewitching ‘Woods’ Music Video

Merlin Camozzi tells DN how he used choreography as social commentary in his bewitching music video indictment of social pressure for Són track 'Woods'.

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Live Action

The Serious Art of the Mixtape is Alive & Well in Peter Edlund’s Endearing Slacker Short ‘Mixtape Marauders’

Two stoner friends try to find meaning in the mundane and keep the subtle art of the mixtape alive in Peter Edlund's endearing short 'Mixtape Marauders'.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

MARGAUX | Vol.1

Daniel Iglesias Jr. explores the concept of 'what makes iconography?' in this fun living magazine promo for exclusive boutique agency Margaux the Agency.

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

Video Artist Lachlan Turczan Transforms Dance Into a Fluid Expression of Self in VFX Music Video ‘With You’

DN speaks to video artist Lachlan Turczan about his visual effects contribution to Sam von Horn’s experimental dance music video ‘With You’.

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Live Action

Ironic Juxtapositions of Everyday Life Are the Centrepiece of Amy Nicholson’s New York Comedy Short ‘Irony’

Amy Nicholson tells DN how she and a small crew created a mosaic of everyday idiosyncratic New York moments and ironic juxtapositions for her satirical short

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