Movies: Adam Scovell

  • 2021
    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

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    An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to i...

    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
  • 2014
    Forest

    Forest (2014)

    Forest

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    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....

    Forest
  • 2017
    Arcadia

    Arcadia (2017)

    Arcadia

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    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 be...

    Arcadia
  • 2016
    The Menhir Motorway

    The Menhir Motorway (2016)

    The Menhir Motorway

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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 a...

    The Menhir Motorway
  • 2014
    The Book of Sand

    The Book of Sand (2014)

    The Book of Sand

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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....

    The Book of Sand
  • 2016
    Heavy Water

    Heavy Water (2016)

    Heavy Water

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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 assoc...

    Heavy Water
  • 2016
    A Walk By Waiting

    A Walk By Waiting (2016)

    A Walk By Waiting

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    A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London....

    A Walk By Waiting
  • 2014
    Artefacts

    Artefacts (2014)

    Artefacts

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    Artefacts details the parts of The Wirral landscape that appear to have had life there but now only shows remnants of it....

    Artefacts
  • 2019
    Ness

    Ness (2019)

    Ness

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    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
  • 2017
    Hope In The Dark

    Hope In The Dark (2017)

    Hope In The Dark

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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....

    Hope In The Dark
  • 2016
    No Diggin' Here

    No Diggin' Here (2016)

    No Diggin' Here

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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....

    No Diggin' Here
  • 2017
    The Economy of the Dead

    The Economy of the Dead (2017)

    The Economy of the Dead

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    Short super-8 film capturing the changes taking place in Soho and questioned by John Berger's essay on twelve theses on the economy of the dead....

    The Economy of the Dead
  • 2017
    Greenteeth

    Greenteeth (2017)

    Greenteeth

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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....

    Greenteeth
  • 2015
    Salthouse Marshes

    Salthouse Marshes (2015)

    Salthouse Marshes

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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....

    Salthouse Marshes
  • 2014
    Tarot

    Tarot (2014)

    Tarot

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    Short super 8 folk horror film about witches' rites performed in a stone circle....

    Tarot
  • 2018
    Weather Words

    Weather Words (2018)

    Weather Words

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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.inpla...

    Weather Words
  • 2016
    The Attempt

    The Attempt (2016)

    The Attempt

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    An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One....

    The Attempt
  • 2014
    Four Hills

    Four Hills (2014)

    Four Hills

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    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....

    Four Hills
  • 2014
    The Coastal Path

    The Coastal Path (2014)

    The Coastal Path

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    A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost....

    The Coastal Path
  • 2015
    Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)

    Weirdstone (For Alan Garner) (2015)

    Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)

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    Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner....

    Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)