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MarBelle

MarBelle has written 286 posts for Directors Notes

Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins

Sun in the Night Time (2007)
Cecily protects her mother from hysterical grief by maintaining the pretence that her dead brother is still alive and living in their house.

DN EP 101: The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg

This week I’m joined by director Daniel Bloomberg to discuss his Jacques Lacan inspired, chocolate sauce massacre short The Greatest Gift.
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The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg

The Greatest Gift (2008)
A short film of green jello, chocolate sauce massacre and a cafeteria full of pretty women inspired by the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan.
via No fat clips!!!

Routes Hits a Cinema Near You

Update: As a Brighton resident it’d be plain rude of me to not highlight the fact that Alex’s Routes screening at the Duke of York cinema is coming up this Saturday at 4:30pm. Even better the man himself will be there for a Q&A session, so if you’re in the area be sure you head [...]

SotW: Daylight

It’s my Short of the Week rotation again and this time I fess up to my obsession with beauty in the moving image through Igor Zimmermann’s experimental piece Daylight.
Have a read and watch.

DN EP 100: El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy - Stathis Athanasiou

Well it seemed like the distant future back when I posted episode 1, but believe it or not we’ve now been bringing you Directors Notes each and every week for the last 100 weeks! So to mark our move into triple figures I’m pleased to be joined by returning director Stathis Athanasiou (DN036) to talk [...]

El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy - Stathis Athanasiou

El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy (2008)
Stathis Athanasiou finds a way to channel the heartache in his promo for El Senor Antipirina’s track Me Voy.

DN Special: Storm - Kurtis Hough

Sometimes when I get really lucky, a director whose work we’ve featured will stick around once the interview dust has settled and become a firm friend who I can have extended film discussions with and tap up for viewing suggestions. Thankfully since his first appearance on DN 028 Kurtis Hough has fallen into that category, [...]

DN EP 099: The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano

If you’re tapped into a community, creative or otherwise, the laws of nature dictate that either through chance or shear determination certain individuals will become the embodiment of that scene. Mark Escribano found such an incarnation in the Super Noble Brothers who where ubiquitous across the Milwaukee music and arts scene, and decided to explore [...]

The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano

The Super Noble Brothers (2007)
The Super Noble Brothers chronicles the ‘beautiful struggles’ of the uncompromising artists and entrepreneurs Davey, Tommy, and Andy Noble. Raised by independent art dealers and encouraged from the outset to pursue their artistic interests, they quickly garnered local celebrity in their home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin as talented musicians, painters and [...]

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