Tapes From The Revolutionary

Tapes From The Revolutionary

I met Andy as he walked past me armed with a camcorder. I was intrigued to watch his tape. He said I could. The tape presented a seventy year old artist who walked the streets of Edinburgh capturing his surroundings. For whom and why? I decided Andy and his tape would...

E215 @ ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL

E215 @ ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL

I did not know anything about Hawick apart from it is next to Galashiels. All I know about Galashiels is that it is like most scottish towns; If you visit on a sunday the only source of entertainment is it’s Tescos. I now know that Hawick is different. I visited on a...

VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY MASTER CLASS

VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY MASTER CLASS

Over looking Edinburgh College of Art as a sort of Panopticon tower is the Scottish Documentary Institute. Never knowing if they are watching or not, we as students at Edinburgh College of Art don’t risk it and always behave. Last summer I was asked by them to film a...

ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL 2014 – E215

ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL 2014 – E215

Viva La Resolution!In October last year I was asked to make five films in five days as apart of my course at Edinburgh College of Art. Not knowing what to do, I soon found myself retreating back to the territory that first interested me to film; goofy animations and...

ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL 2014 – E215

ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL 2014 – E215

My short experimental film, E215, will be apart of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2014.The film will be screened on Sunday 6th Arpil during the DreamLand 3 programme at Hawick, Scottish Boarders. Tickets can be found over at their website.Alchemy film festival...

EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA V9.27 – E215

EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA V9.27 – E215

E215 is a wee film I made in Scotland. A meditative portrait of my gran. A fridge floating in an abounded quarry. Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the map it looks dry. It has a record high temperature of 42 degree celsius. Hosts a funky international experimental film...

TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY [GIF RUN]

TAPES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY [GIF RUN]

As I approach the last semester of my time at Edinburgh College of Art I have began filming a new documentary with the working title Pigeon. The film is about a fellow filmmaker… I met Andy as he walked past me armed with a camcorder. I was intrigued to watch his...

AOI AWARDS 2013 : OUR NATIONS SONS

AOI AWARDS 2013 : OUR NATIONS SONS

The AOI exhibition at Sommerset House in London has finished. Above is myself and illustrator Joe Caslin at the award ceremony at the start of October. I take the form as the small curvy one.Our Nations Sons won an award for Public Realm category and also gave me the...

E215 @ EDITIONS SUMMER 2013 EXHIBITION

E215 @ EDITIONS SUMMER 2013 EXHIBITION

This week was the opening of the Summer Exhibition for Editions, a glasgow based digital art exhibition and Publication founded by Gillian Carey & Rachael C. Gallacher.Information on the event can be found on The List. My film E215 was selected to be apart of the...

Dear Peter [Trailer]

Dear Peter [Trailer]

“Do you think we will ever get rid of this government?” barks Keith in an empty book shop. His grievance is interrupted by a young girl’s unsteady promise to never eat meat again. Janet, a third voice, adds to the chorus and offers an apology for forgetting to water...

E215. [TRAILER]

E215. [TRAILER]

E215. [trailer]E215. is a meditative insight into my gran mother as she reflects on her old age. The film is an experimental documentary highlighting that beauty can still be obtained from objects once seen as unfit for society. The film has been screened as a part of...

SEAVACUEE

SEAVACUEE

SeavacueeDir. Duncan Cowles SeavacueeMy Grandma was eleven when a boat taking her to Canada was torpedoed by a German Submarine. Now, 72 years later my Grandma agrees to talk about it one last time.Living on her own 600 miles away I’ve grown up not knowing my Grandma...

Our Nation’s Sons @ Somerset House, AOI Exhibition

Our Nation’s Sons @ Somerset House, AOI Exhibition

Today is the start of Association Of Illustrators exhibition at Somerset House, London where they will be screening my film Our Nation’s Sons. The film is a short document detailing the motivation for the project as well as how the illustrations were installed. Our...

A Place Just On The Map

A Place Just On The Map

A Place Just On The Map On a wild lonely shore on the far north of Scotland stands ‘Dounreay’. Operating since the 1950′s as a nuclear research experiment, the plant is now defunct and in the process of being decommissioned. Disposing of waste located in underground...

DOC ALLIANCE: MY STREET FILMS

DOC ALLIANCE: MY STREET FILMS

Almost a year has passed since the installation of the illustrations around Edinburgh, most of them have been taken down and the remaining one sits with a local weather beaten face.This week my film Our Nations Sons has been included as a part of  the event of the...

HOLLAND DOC24: A PLACE JUST ON THE MAP

HOLLAND DOC24: A PLACE JUST ON THE MAP

http://www.hollanddoc.nl/projecten/makers-van-morgen/nieuws/breaking-ground-6-oktober.html My short film A Place Just On The Map will be broadcasted on Holland Doc 24 on the 3rd October and will be screened at Two Short Nights film festival (29th Nov).

Scottish Wildlife Trust

Scottish Wildlife Trust

Recently I created short films for Scottish Wildlife Trust to raise awareness and save the red squirrel!  This gave me the opportunity to work with its Ambassadors, Simon King, Stephen Jardine and Mark Beaumont to create short clips. All filming was recorded at SWT’s...

OPEN CITY DOCS FILM FESTIVAL – OUR NATIONS SONS

OPEN CITY DOCS FILM FESTIVAL – OUR NATIONS SONS

My Street Films Competition asks film makers to give us an insight into their area. The films can be selected through a large worldwide map where thumbnails sprout across it. Quite an interesting design that gives us the ability to spy on where the majority of film...

Our Nation’s Sons

Our Nation’s Sons

Huge Artwork Of Teenage Hoody Appears In Edinburgh Street What really went on there?We only have this excerpt.The film above was made by myself to document Joe Caslin’s project ‘Our Nation’s Sons’. The project was built from a collaboration between St Thomas Of...