Themes: Landscape

Laughing Woman

A solitary person stands in the middle of an empty grassy green ground in brilliant sunshine, laughing directly to camera. Laughter, absurdity, ridicule and humour,

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A love

Filmed in the artist’s home neighbourhood and within a temporary community, A love foregrounds interaction, quiet and tender engagement, forms of love, respect, presence, absence,

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How to Live

How to Live was commissioned to reflect on the uncertain times that we found ourselves in during the Coronavirus pandemic. This new work shows the

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Crossroads

Crossroads (2009) was developed out of the artist’s investigation into the mythology surrounding the legendary Robert Johnson, a bluesman with three gravestones, 29 recorded songs

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Search Film

Search Film follows the artist’s father, the biologist Dr. Mick Marquiss as he tracks goshawks, an elusive bird of prey, in rural north east Scotland.

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Midgie Noise

A cloud of illuminated midges are filmed during a nocturnal rainshower (midges are mosquito-like insects, common in rural Scotland). During filming the artist adjusts the

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UNICA

UNICA is named after the writer and artist Unica Zürn (1916 – 1970), whose illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958) figures her body and

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Dust to Data

Dust to Data tracks through the colonial history of archaeology, to current parallels in the data mining of DNA and social media image banks. Working

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THE BUZZ OF THE PAST

This short film was commissioned by HOME in Manchester for the Derek Jarman season. It played as an introduction for his film THE GARDEN and

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55 Days

A portrait of New York City at dusk. Windows of high-rise apartments, brownstones and bodegas illuminated like light boxes, offer a glimpse of neighbouring occupants.

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Ijen / London

A short film made in preparation for a longer one called After London, where a young woman goes on a quest to find the mythical

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Denim Sky

Made between 2018-2022 across different time scales and locations across the world. Denim Sky is a feature film in three parts. Together the trilogy is

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From 60 Degrees North

Commissioned by Channel 4 Television, From 60 Degrees North dispels the myth of the sinking of the Spanish Armada.  Using records from the Spanish and

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Wayfinder

The most ambitious film to date by artist Larry Achiampong, Wayfinder is an epic film about class and economic exclusion, belonging and displacement, cultural heritage

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