Archive for July, 2010
The Tea Bag
In beautifully composed black and white stop motion, Bil Thompson answers the eternal question of Where do teabags go when they die? It’s also worth a jump over to Bil’s site, if only to watch his project reel. The Tea Bag from Bil Thompson on Vimeo.
Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin
Hillbillies don’t duel like regular folks. Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin from Blink on Vimeo.
Endgame In Afghanistan
Films such as the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker are gruelling, brutal and detailed looks at life on the frontline of modern warfare in the Far East, but they aren’t reality. Filmmaker for The Guardian, Sean Smith’s short documentary Endgame In Afghanistan, is closer to reality. He spent five weeks in Afghanistan documenting and reporting and [...]
DN175: Skeletons – Nick Whitfield
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Described as “A very British Ghostbusters”, Nick Whitfield’s debut feature Skeletons has been gathering mounting praise from critics and audiences alike and also picked up the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature at this year’s Edinburgh film festival. I’m pleased to have Nick on the show [...]
Skeletons – Nick Whitfield
Skeletons (2010) Davis and Bennett are a mismatched pair of traveling salesmen in the business of cleaning out skeletons from closets. Together they travel across Britain, wandering in and out of their clients’ lives, performing “the procedure” whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. Assigned to a job by their boss, The Colonel, the pair [...]
Carnal Love
From all my varied experiences with the different contributors of Directors Notes, there’s one thing I realized we all love as much as the world of independent filmmaking and that’s cake….big dirty slabs of cake. So when a music video came along featuring the work of cake artist Lili Vanilli, I was damn excited, as [...]
Hoedown from Rodeo
A paper craft animation piece from Eleanor Stewart in the vein of last year’s Books Come to Life. Hoedown from Rodeo from Eleanor Stewart on Vimeo.
This is England ’86
I’m not really a big fan of TV, in fact recently with the English football season in hiatus, I’ve found myself rarely switching on the box and flicking through the channels and instead picking up a book and flicking through the pages. That’s not to say I dislike all TV programmes, I’m a big fan [...]
The Search
A lonely man’s search for the existence of life outside our universe takes a remarkable turn when he connects with a recently bereaved family. Directed by Mark Buchanan and featuring Matt Berry (currently starring in the IT Crowd) and past DN guest Tim Plester, this a short full of awkward moments, long silences and an [...]
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