Archive for February, 2010
Femme En Fourrure – Plump Bisquit
Ever since El Vez’s Pink Mania post a couple days ago sent us spiraling down the rabbit hole of Miikka Lommi’s bizarre and often freakish videos, I’ve found it nigh on impossible to climb back out. So in a bid to gain a foothold back to reality I’m sharing Miikka’s promo for Femme En Fourrure’s [...]
Decode
As a modern filmmaker, the days of being specialized in a single field seem quite rare nowadays. The modern filmmaker needs to be part Cameraman, part Director, part Editor, part Soundman, part Web Designer, part Social Networker and part Artist, so its never been more important to gather influences from as many realms and mediums [...]
Mixtape – Luke Snellin
I’m normally dubious of corporate short film competitions. You know, the ‘make a two second short featuring our brand in 14 minutes yada yada yada’. It was with trepidation then that I checked out the Virgin Media Shorts winner Mixtape by Luke Snellin. It came recommended by the wonderful Electric Literature magazine though so I [...]
Big Sky ’10: Mountain Views and Heated Debates
After the epic 26 hour journey from the UK I’ve been in Montana for three days now and feel right at home in the mountains. Since I got here I have been mainlining films in order to make the judging deadline of last night and have seen six features and five shorts. It’s an exhausting [...]
DN EP 157: Jade – Daniel Elliott
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Here at DN we’re big fans of films that avoid spoon feeding an audience needless back story, but instead parachute you into the current narrative crisis and credit you with the intelligence to make sense of your new surroundings. The short drama Jade, is such a film and [...]
SotW: Echoes
There’s something perverse about the fact that my SotW pick of abused, sex trafficked women, happened to be posted on the universal day of love, but perhaps it’ll make you hold that special someone all the tighter. Despite the grim subject, director Rob Brown shows that compassion can be found where you least expect it. [...]
Black Hole
A nice short with a brilliantly inventive, yet simple premise from creative duo Diamond Dogs A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole – and then greed gets the better of him… The Black Hole from Napoleon Ryan on Vimeo.
Flattr Makes Social Micropayments Easy
We all know there’s a massive disconnect between consumption and commerce online – after nearly four years of DN it’s something we’ve been thinking about more and more. Well, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde’s been thinking about it too and has come up with a possible solution in Flattr. The video below explains how the [...]
Scorsese, Von Trier & De Niro in Taxi Driver rumour
This could possibly be the greatest rumour to ever hit the film circuit, but if it were to come off, we could possibly witness one of the weirdest collaborations in cinematic history! (No surprise it involves Von Trier though) Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are said to be planning a remake of the seminal [...]
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