KINO LONDON

My video Furnace was created especially for Kino London. It will be screened inside an inflatable igloo in the Clore ballroom of the Southbank Centre on 11th Jan 2009.

RED PLANET PICTURES

The Storm Hags screenplay has just been shortlisted for the Red Planet Annual Writing Competition.

SIMULTAN04

Carousel is selected for the
Simultan04 Festival, Romania, October 23 to 25

THE ACHILTIBUIE STONE

The Achiltibuie Stone is is included in the anthology Bucket of Frogs :New Writing Scotland 26 . Published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Available at most bookshops and on Amazon.

The Achiltibuie Stone: two crofts split by a dry stone dyke; two familes split by a runestone.

THE SUTHERLAND KING

My dark tale of shortbread "The Sutherland King" got into the first round of the the British Short Screenplay Competition. The screenplay was adapted from my short story published in the anthology "Read by Dawn" by Bloody Books. Available on Amazon and at Waterstones.

ONE MINUTE FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL

Zombie Lick showing at One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau, Switzerland , 22 to 24th August.

CCA, Glasgow, Wednesday 28th May.Paris, France: February 15-16-17: as part of "Economie 0", at Ménagerie de Verre

RANFURLY REVIEW

Two of my short stories are published in issue 3 of the e-magazine The Ranfurly Review. The Book of Skin was inspired by a trip to Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh. Rubber Up Ducky was inspired by my condom dispensor videosculpture Kitschen.

 

NEWS ARCHIVE

WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY

inArt presents an exhibition featuring films by James Page and myself, work by Cathy Bell and Paddi O'Brien (who have collaborated previously) on the themes of Poverty and Pollution - and more... Tues 17th Feb 2009, Almondvale Sq, The Centre, Livingston.

STARS OF LOVE

Stars of Love is now on Days Like This ; an exciting new project run by Scottish Book Trust in partnership with BBC Radio Scotland. It's a short story based on cleaning up a cave after making the Rionnagan Gaoil (Stars of Love) video. The video eventually got me onto the Electronic Imaging Post Gard at Duncan of Jordstone College of Art, Dundee.

ANIMATION CLASS

I started up a new Animation class at Leith Academy on 22nd Sept. It is a mixture of hands on traditional claymation and computer animation.

TAFFA TASSEOMANCER

Taffa (Tasseomancing And Future Forecasting Avatar) is a digital tea lady. Let her read your future in your tea leaves. Funded through the Pocketshorts scheme Taffa Tasseomancer was launched this June at EIFF 2008.

GAMERZ DVD RELEASE

Sept 08 Pure Magic Films are delighted to announce the UK DVD release of
the fantastical Scottish teen comedy GAMERZ, distributed by Guerilla Films! See trailer.

GAMERZ has a general release at Cineworld cinemas in Scotland from February 22, 2008. It's a wonderful gentle comedy based on the antics of a group of Role Playing Gamers. I worked as a Rotoscoper on the animation sequences.

RHINESTONE HEARTS

Kitsch horror Rhinestone Hearts was shortlisted for the Metro/List short film competition. The script didn't win but all shortlisted writers went on Adrian Mead's excellent scriptwriters course.

A GLASTONBURY TALE

photo by Lynne Newton

Chapter 4 for BBC Somerset's short story competition was broadcast on BBC Somerset.

BBC 7

Episode 9 accepted for BBC 7 's Chain Gang competition. Robert Shearman (writer of recent "Dalek" episode for Doctor Who) wrote the initial episode.