Having already written about the Weather Words film for Caught By The River (link here), I won’t add much more about the project. For more specific details, read that piece. It’s the first and probably only film project of mine in 2018, partly due to funding problems and partly due to other big projects taking … Continue reading Short Film – Weather Words (Colin Riley feat. Robert Macfarlane)
Above is the trailer for the next short film, Heavy Water. This is to be the longest film this year and the most ambitious in terms of scope in spite of future projects containing narratives and actors. Heavy Water 's difficulty is the connection of its two main themes represented by adjacent places on the … Continue reading Trailer – Heavy Water.
Above is the trailer for the first film project of 2016, The Menhir Motorway. The film has been slightly delayed due to missing virtually all possible deadlines in regards to getting the film developed but it is now well on its way to being finished. Unlike virtually every other landscape short that I've made, this … Continue reading Trailer – The Menhir Motorway.
Salthouse Marshes began life in a strange way. Having chatted about adapting Algernon Blackwood's The Willows with Robert Macfarlane (who had wanted to re-set it in England), there was always to be a "haunted waterway" film on the cards. But, after constant reading of the narrative of The Willows, the thought of organising the filming … Continue reading Short Film – Salthouse Marshes
An Impossible Dérive is a film that channels a number of my own current interests. Though predominantly about the changing landscape and topography of the city centre of Liverpool, it is also about using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to assess and comment upon the fallout of such change within the landscape. The … Continue reading Short Film – An Impossible Dérive.
Above is the trailer for the film that I have been working on with Robert Macfarlane. Only recently, upon reading a Wikipedia entry no less, did I discover that it is an adaptation of a "Sunday Times best-seller". Perhaps it is best to ignore the pressure of this in spite of the article actually putting … Continue reading Trailer – Holloway (Robert Macfarlane).
As some may know, I'm currently engaged in a collaborative project with the writer, Robert Macfarlane, and also in periphery with the artist Stanley Donwood. Our aim is to produce a short visual summation of the fragmented novella booklet that Robert and Stanley released, together with writer Dan Richards, all about the Holloways of Dorset. … Continue reading Filming In The Holloways.
For my last film of the year, I wanted to put into practice some of ideas that I explored in my presentation at this year's Folk Horror conference, held at Queens University Belfast in September. I had already filmed the footage before I presented my paper (though didn't get it developed until a good few … Continue reading Short Film – Tarot.
