Self
Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.
Camera Operator
Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness.
Director
Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness.
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Film response to Colin Riley's Weather Words as part of the In Place project. Weather Words is a musical response to the many different words for weather as collected by Robert Macfarlane in his book Landmarks. For more information, visit www.inplace.co.uk www.celluloidwickerman.com
Director
Film response to Colin Riley's Weather Words as part of the In Place project. Weather Words is a musical response to the many different words for weather as collected by Robert Macfarlane in his book Landmarks. For more information, visit www.inplace.co.uk www.celluloidwickerman.com
Adaptation
Greenteeth is short wyrd fiction super-8 film based on a story by Gary Budden. It follows the gradual disintegration of a girl living on a canal boat in Kensal Green as the folklore of Jenny Greenteeth begins to manifest through her social problems.
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Greenteeth is short wyrd fiction super-8 film based on a story by Gary Budden. It follows the gradual disintegration of a girl living on a canal boat in Kensal Green as the folklore of Jenny Greenteeth begins to manifest through her social problems.
Archival Footage Research
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.
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Short super-8 film of the Women's March in London put with some audio of Rebecca Solnit reading from her book, Hope In The Dark.
Adaptation
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One.
Director
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One.
Writer
Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story.
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Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story.
Writer
Heavy Water is the latest film by Adam Scovell. Adam’s films plait parallel histories – folk horror, literature, experimental film, experimental music – into relived journeys through super-8 landscapes that are dense with sound, texture and the associations of the occultish underbelly of 20th century British art. This short film explores coastline of the Sizewell B Nuclear power station.
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Heavy Water is the latest film by Adam Scovell. Adam’s films plait parallel histories – folk horror, literature, experimental film, experimental music – into relived journeys through super-8 landscapes that are dense with sound, texture and the associations of the occultish underbelly of 20th century British art. This short film explores coastline of the Sizewell B Nuclear power station.
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A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London.
Writer
The Menhir Motorway is a super-8 film looking at the Ballard-scapes found on the peninsula of The Wirral, specifically in Wallasey. It examines the links between the urban menhir known as Grannies Rock and the nearby motorway's concrete labyrinths and pathways.
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The Menhir Motorway is a super-8 film looking at the Ballard-scapes found on the peninsula of The Wirral, specifically in Wallasey. It examines the links between the urban menhir known as Grannies Rock and the nearby motorway's concrete labyrinths and pathways.
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A ghost story shot on super-8 revolving around a an ex-soldier in the 1950s whose fishing trip out onto a lonely marshland conjures haunted visions and attacks of the mind. Narrative is based vaguely on Algernon Blackwood's The Willows.
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A ghost story shot on super-8 revolving around a an ex-soldier in the 1950s whose fishing trip out onto a lonely marshland conjures haunted visions and attacks of the mind. Narrative is based vaguely on Algernon Blackwood's The Willows.
Writer
A super-8 essay film using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to comment upon the changing landscape and topography of Liverpool in order to highlight the increased bid towards its homogenisation.
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A super-8 essay film using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to comment upon the changing landscape and topography of Liverpool in order to highlight the increased bid towards its homogenisation.
Director
A film adaptation of the Holloway book by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards. The film was made alongside Macfarlane who has written and recorded its voice-over, Donwood who allowed the use of many of his Holloway inspired prints, composer Richard Skelton who has recorded an entirely new piece of musical score for it, and sound artist, James Bulley who let us use his Holloway recording project. More info can be found here: https://celluloidwickerman.com/2015/01/19/filming-in-the-holloways/
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Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner.
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Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner.
Director
Short super 8 folk horror film about witches' rites performed in a stone circle.
Director
Artefacts details the parts of The Wirral landscape that appear to have had life there but now only shows remnants of it.
Editor
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
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Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
Adaptation
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
Director
Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror.
Director
Four Hills is a video built from photographs to create a living stop-motion and follows an Edwardian walker as he finds a strange pocket-watch that opens up a whole new dimension.
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A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost.
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A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost.
