MarBelle

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Hilary Hahn & Hauschka: Bounce Bounce

By MarBelle ⋅ May 7, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that German pianist Hauschka’s music has an unnatural ability to inspire the very best visuals from directors as we saw in Jeff Desom’s work last year. For Bounce Bounce, his collaboration with American violinist Hilary Hahn, Hayley Morris has created a colourful parade of tide pool choreography, which sees sea snails shuffle, starfish [...]

After Leaving a Forest

By MarBelle ⋅ May 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

A man haunted by war returns home to find he no longer has a place, in Sophie Diao’s affecting animation After Leaving a Forest.

Share Our Streets

By MarBelle ⋅ May 5, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

On the rare occasions I venture out of DN towers it’s always on two wheels, which means I’m no stranger to the shall we say… challenging encounters that can sometimes take place with my four wheeled friends. Laura Yilmaz’s Share Our Streets series of PSAs for BikeLongBeach.org show a beautiful hand drawn utopia of love [...]

First the Worst

By MarBelle ⋅ May 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Two unpopular kids attempt to one up each other in the loser stakes in First the Worst from Bevan Walsh, who you may remember from the charming porn discovery short Love Does Grow on Trees.

Wife of a Farmer

By MarBelle ⋅ May 3, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Amanda Winterstein takes us into the lonely life of the Wife of a Farmer in her creepy animation for CalArts.

Roscoe: Lowlands

By MarBelle ⋅ May 3, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Set against a backdrop of Bucharest junkyards and deserted roadsides, Norman Bates’ Lowlands promo for Belgian band Roscoe is a story of the father/son bond abused and tested beyond breaking point. In the few lines of dialogue that exist, Bates expertly builds the characters of a boy desperate for approval and the father who sees [...]

DN Picks: Apr12

By MarBelle ⋅ May 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

DN embraced the darker side of the lens in April. We spent time with Sophia and her Lovely Monster, attended Mr Lynch’s Crazy Clown Time party, saw the Liars dispatched by a serial killer and realised that you can awake from some love stories with a chill. Herzog moved on from forgotten cave dreams to [...]

will

By MarBelle ⋅ May 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Building a short around the tragic events of 911 is a risky move and one that most filmmakers would be well advised to stay as far away from as humanly possible; don’t approach with a significant level of somber respect and you’ll be vilified for your flippancy, stray too far into mawkishness and the charge [...]

Eradicate

By MarBelle ⋅ May 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Gems from this year’s Sci-Fi London 48hr film challenge seem to keep materialising into the DN mailbox, which frankly I’m all for. This time round director William McGregor returns to the 48hr challenge with Eradicate, a film about guilt, blame and moving on. Despite the success of his 2011 entry No Escape (the film placed [...]

My Panda Shall Fly + Benjamin Jackson: Mantra

By MarBelle ⋅ April 30, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Don’t be put off by the gimp like suit in the opening moments of Andrew Corrigan’s Mantra promo, once the frenetic beats of My Panda Shall Fly + Benjamin Jackson’s track settle into a definable pattern, Chris King’s 3D projection mapping animation will totally own your eyeballs.