GUIDE TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT @ TORONTO URBAN FILM FESTIVAL

GUIDE TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT @ TORONTO URBAN FILM FESTIVAL

North America’s largest subway film festival, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, features silent, 60-second film video and animation. The festival reaches over one million daily commuters on subway platform screens across the Toronto transit system every...

GUIDE TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT : MILANO FILM FESTIVAL 2015.

GUIDE TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT : MILANO FILM FESTIVAL 2015.

My 60 second short, Guide To Fetal Development will be screening at Milano Film Festival 2015, screening as apart of their Focus of Animation programme. The festival will be taken place between 10-20th September. Complimenti! Complimenti! Complimenti!

TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY : HERE + NOW

TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY : HERE + NOW

HERE + NOW are launching a new series of cinema screenings showcasing filmmakers short films in unusual hidden city spaces in Edinburgh.Hidden Features events provide a platform for filmmakers to share their work whilst also revealing and exploring hidden interesting...

E215. : WHITECHAPEL GALLERY/ EAST END FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING

E215. : WHITECHAPEL GALLERY/ EAST END FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING

The Luminous Latitude tour continues… E215. will be screening at East End Film Festival 2015 hosted by Whitechapel Gallery. Screening will take place this week, Thursday 9th July, 6.00pm. For more information and to book click here.

RADIO SILENCE

RADIO SILENCE

Radio Silencedir.Duncan CowlesCo-Produced by Scott Willis What stops a father and son from being able to talk? With a vimeo staff pick on fathers day, Duncan Cowles’ Radio Silence highlights that daddy issues go beyond an Edinburgh suburb, but instead resonate with an...

IDEAS TAP AWARD : SHORT FILM 2015 : TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY

IDEAS TAP AWARD : SHORT FILM 2015 : TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY

Me: A problem I’m having, Andy, is that the film won’t work. Andy: You couldn’t direct me to do what you wanted me to do. Me: I don’t want to debate, I just want to film a pigeon. Tapes From The Revolutionary was my graduation film from Edinburgh College Of Art. The...

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

What Do You See? Handwritten by a care home patient, a poem was found by nurses shortly after her passing. Articulating the realities of growing old, What Do You See? expresses how she perceived her surroundings an in turn comments on how it looked at her. What Do You...

E215 : E.LOVATT

E215 : E.LOVATT

Recently my grandmother passed away. E215. was a film we made together however having hid all my recording equipment she did not know about the collaboration initially. The film is guided by her voice. She sang to me, off key but with sincerity. When she viewed the...

TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY : GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2015

TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY : GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2015

What is it like to see the world through someone else’s eyes?  Filmmaker, Scott Willis discovers Andy, a self-proclaimed communist revolutionary that documents his life on a Hi-8 camcorder. Aiming to understand the purpose behind the tapes Willis picks up his camera,...

Edinburgh’s The Red Bus

Edinburgh’s The Red Bus

The Red Bus. An original 1962 London routemaster that spends its retirement cruising around Edinburgh. Got to use a wee bit of the auld 8mm. Good times.

GARDEN OF ELKS – SWAP

GARDEN OF ELKS – SWAP

In a wee town hall up in the highlands, it is mandatory that all school children dance to Garden of Elks; For at least an hour, every first Sunday of the month. Directed by Graeme Roger, I helped out by filming the evidence/music video. Below, Roger and Mike Webster,...

16MM FILM WORKSHOP @ LEAPS

16MM FILM WORKSHOP @ LEAPS

I wasn’t allowed to do art in my last year of high school. The head of the department said I painted too small. Give me a bigger brush was my response. This week I have been a member of Leaps, an organisation focused on supporting students as they apply for further...

POP-UP WEEK AMSTERDAM : E215

POP-UP WEEK AMSTERDAM : E215

For the grand opening of Pop-Up Week Amsterdam 2014, art collective Kutler took over one of the cities streets. Turning its cobbles into an open air street art gallery for their event BYOB (Bring YOUR Own Beamer). “The playground is fabulous; the Wijdesteeg is an open...

BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE: GUIDE TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT SCREENING

BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE: GUIDE TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT SCREENING

Earlier this week my animation, Guide To Fetal Development won IdeasTap: Teenage Kicks film competition. The brief was to submit a sixty second clip inspired by BFI’s film programme, Teenage Kicks. I suppose this makes my entry a bit puny then…Guide To Fetal...

ELECTRIC PICNIC : OUR NATION’S SONS

ELECTRIC PICNIC : OUR NATION’S SONS

Electric Picnic will be screening Our Nations Sons alongside some of my mums favourite pop troupes at it’s sold out music festival! Beck, Outkast, Blondie and Lily Allen will be showing face over the weekend. Pretty… pretty… pretty good!The film will be screened as a...

A PLACE JUST ON THE MAP : DECAGRAM 1.8 SCREENING

A PLACE JUST ON THE MAP : DECAGRAM 1.8 SCREENING

With the independence referendum quickly approaching, Scotland finds itself under close inspection from within. The Decagram collective will be screening documentaries that focus on the social issues that face Scotland today at their event Decagram 1.8. The event will...

Guide To Fetal Development

Guide To Fetal Development

Today I have gave birth to a revised version of an old animation; Good timing as today happens to be my birthday!Short insight into fetal development within the digital age! Guide To Fetal Development began its own life as a doodle I did during my summer job a couple...

PUBLICA CLERKENWELL SCREEN SHORTS: E215

PUBLICA CLERKENWELL SCREEN SHORTS: E215

My short experimental film, E215 has won Publica’s Clerkenwell Screen Shorts competition where it was noted for having “compelling visual narrative”. Good times. The prize is that it will be projected in Clerkenwell Green, London on 22 May to coincide with Clerkenwell...