Seaweed

(18 minutes 33 seconds / 16mm / 2022)

16mm moving image artwork that explores the folklore, ecology, and history of seaweed in northern Scotland. Voiced by seaweed harvesters, workers in the alginate factories, environmental activists, archaeologists & seaweed farmers behind the miracle resource. The film includes archive footage, oral histories and contemporary documentary footage of people working with seaweed.

Funded by Arts Council England, FLAMIN & Cumbria Cultural Fund. Support documenting Seaweed photographs from Garden Studios.

Screenings 2022-25
Cinema Fulgor, Alentejo, Portugal, 2024
Cample-Line, Dumfries, UK, 2024
Scarborough Film Festival, UK, 2023
Academia Film Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2023
Scottish International Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK, 2023
Sea Change Film Festival, Tiree, UK, 2023
​​aCinema | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2023
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK, 2022
Plenty?, Banchory with Moving Images Caravan, Aberdeenshire, UK, 2022
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, UK, 2022
Braziers International Film Festival, Oxford, UK, 2022
BFI London Film Festival, London, UK, 2022
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany, 2022
Cinema Paradiso | Home & Paradise Works Artists Studios | Manchester, UK. 2022
Visions in/of the North West | Xviix Programme, Morecambe Bay Library, UK, 2022
Aesthetica, York, UK, 2022
HOME, Manchester, UK, 2022
Lyth Arts Centre, Wick, UK, 2022

Awards
The Glaister Award 2022, Braziers International Film Festival