Archive for December, 2011
El Vez 2011 Top Ten
Another year, another painful internal debate over the traditional end of year list and with an intimidating ten of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Guard, Sleeping Beauty, Terri, Drive, The Tree of Life, Bad Fever, Stake Land, Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter) and Involuntary not even making the final list it just goes to show what a great year for film [...]
CR’s Music Video Picks of the Year
Influential Art & Design magazine Creative Review select 10 music promos that “rocked CR’s world” in 2011 – CR’s Music Video Picks of the Year. My personal favourite being Lykke Li’s – Sadness is a Blessing from Tarik Saleh, which had somehow slipped through the DN radar unnoticed in 2011. Lykke Li – Sadness is [...]
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
You can always trust Arcade Fire to provide some music video goodness – this time with the help of director Vincent Morisset. Interactive version at www.sprawl2.com (webcam and broadband recommended)
Jeanie Finlay 2011 Top Ten
2011 has been a funny old year. At the beginning I had just finished my documentary film Sound It Out and was getting ready to release it on DVD in the Stockton record shop I made the film in. In February I got the news we had got into SXSW for our world premiere and [...]
Miss D 2011 Top Ten
How does a year fly by so quickly? How come it only seems like yesterday I was being hassled by MarBelle to put together my 2010 list? I haven’t watched as many films as I would have liked to this year, mainly because I’ve been rewatching my favourites and Caleb and Gallo have been making [...]
Neil Fox 2011 Top Ten
It’s been a weird year for me. I’ve been spending so much time working on my doctorate it’s left less time for films, something I need to rectify in 2012 but even so, I loved a lot of movies this year and as ever, my top 3, I think, would stand up against any year’s [...]
Matt Strachan 2011 Top Ten
I’m a big fan of top ten lists and their assorted brethren (best of this, top twenty that, pre-mortem 1001 something or other). They don’t have the best of reputations these days, thanks to cynical examples such as 1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die and the omnipresent TV fodder that counts ITV2’s [...]
Happy Holidays
The DANIELS would like you to spare a thought for the plight of the poor presents this Christmas. Happy Holidays from DANIELS on Vimeo.
DN227: The Monster of Nix – Rosto
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Dutch artist and filmmaker Rosto is well know for creating intriguing, dark themed work which spans multiple forms of media. His latest, The Monster of Nix, is an existential animated musical fairytale, suitable for kids from 10 to 100. Rosto joins us to discuss not pinning yourself down [...]
Man Up
Up, left, right, round and round but not down Ed Barrett’s graduation film from the R.C.A. is a tale of isolation and solitude as a tower crane worker struggles to come to terms with everyday life. Created entirely in After Effects, Barrett’s darkly funny animation is a hugely stylish piece of work, that’s bound to [...]
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