November, 2011 Archive

News

Miranda July on Strangers

Have you heard of the School of Life? No, no. Not the one everyone talks about when something goes horrifically wrong and your only saving grace is that

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Animation

My Favourite Animal

Lara Lee’s charming animation My Favourite Animal takes the basic premise of asking different children one simple question….What’s your

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN221: Littlerock – Mike Ott

Director Mike Ott joins us this week to discuss his second feature Littlerock, a beautifully balanced fish out of water story, with the added complication of a

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Music Video

UK Music Video Awards

A few days ago we saw the UK Music Video Awards take place and even though we’d featured such winners as Manchester Orchestra: Simple Math, Eskmo: We Got

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Music Video

Die Antwoord: Fok Julle Naaiers

The balls to the wall rap combo we love fear love, Die Antwoord have returned, lyrical guns blazing with Fok Julle Naaiers the promo for the first track from

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Music Video

Robin Foster: Forgiveness

After giving Esben and the Witch a kicking, co-directors Peter King and David Procter bring us what has to be the most graceful, body disposal promo ever

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Documentary

Sean David Christensen

For as long as I can remember my dad always had a moustache… begins Sean David Christensen’s Shave; a short about the first time he saw his

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Animation

Velvet Tissue Zoetrope

The other day I was idly flicking through channels and landed on this fantastic Velvet toilet tissue spot directed by Geoffroy de Crecy for Fallon: Our new ad

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Live Action

Welcome to Hoxford

When I think of fan videos, the first thing I usually imagine homemade lightsaber special fx and people doing bad kung-fu, however, it would seem my opinion of

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Animation, Music Video

Evelyn Evelyn: Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn

Genius animated promo from Hoku Uchiyama for Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn.

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Art & Fashion

Never Extinguish

We’ve featured a few skate videos on DN over the years, although I think I can safely say this is the first apocalyptic skate video we’ve ever

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Animation

Worn Out

Ryan Kothe’s beautifully imagined title sequence Worn Out is “Based on how objects slowly deteriorate and wear down.” If you’re

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