Adam Scovell

Películas

Folk Horror: Bosques sombríos y días de embrujo
Self
Una descripción y disección completa del súbgenero del "terror popular", con aportaciones de los principales creadores de cine de todo el mundo.
Ness
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.
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.
Weather Words
Editor
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
Weather Words
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
Greenteeth
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.
Greenteeth
Director
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.
Arcadia
Archival Footage Research
Una provocadora y poética exploración de cómo el pueblo británico ha visto su propia tierra a través de más de un siglo de cine. Un viaje alucinado de inmensa belleza y brutalidad. Un ensayo caleidoscópico sobre cómo la magia y la locura han unido al ser humano con la naturaleza desde el principio de los tiempos.
Hope In The Dark
Director
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.
The Attempt
Adaptation
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One.
The Attempt
Director
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One.
No Diggin' Here
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.
No Diggin' Here
Director
Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story.
Heavy Water
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.
Heavy Water
Director
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.
A Walk By Waiting
Director
A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London.
The Menhir Motorway
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.
The Menhir Motorway
Director
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.
Salthouse Marshes
Writer
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.
Salthouse Marshes
Director
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.
An Impossible Dérive
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.
An Impossible Dérive
Director
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.
Holloway
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/
Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)
Writer
Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner.
Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)
Director
Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner.
Tarot
Director
Short super 8 folk horror film about witches' rites performed in a stone circle.
Artefacts
Director
Artefacts details the parts of The Wirral landscape that appear to have had life there but now only shows remnants of it.
The Book of Sand
Editor
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
The Book of Sand
Director
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
The Book of Sand
Adaptation
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
Forest
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.
Four Hills
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.
The Coastal Path
Writer
A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost.
The Coastal Path
Director
A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost.