1996 - 2004
Director - Carpe Diem Film & Television Production Ltd.
Director - AVM - Animal Vegetable Mineral. 3D effects and New Media
1986 - 1996
Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, Napier University, Edinburgh.
Established multimedia sector within the department.
Founder Scottish Film and Television School at Napier.
Founder of MSc and BAHons Film and Television.
Production courses.
Director, television documentaries.
Screenwriter, producer and director of feature and experimental drama.
1978 - Present
Film Writer, Producer, Director and Editor.
1980 - 82
Lecturer in Film and Television, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1974 - 78
Freelance photojournalist.
Documentary and commercial stills photography.
Several one-man exhibitions in U.K.
1973 - 74
Travel and research in Europe and U.S.A.
1972 - 73
Member of Studio One, professional Boston Theatre Company.
1970 - 71
Travel and research in Europe and U.S.A.
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Who owns Jack Kerouac?
Producer, Director, Camera.
American author and cultural icon Jack Kerouac had one child, Jan Kerouac, a daughter, whom he never acknowledged as his own. In the last years of her life she battled relentlessly to recover her father's literary estate, which she believed stolen. Part of the war took place on the BeatList, an internet listgroup of beat and boho writers and fans. This is On The Electronic Road, Kerouac and beats in the '90s.
website: http://www.whoownsjackkerouac.com
Khumb Mela
Editing Supervisor. Channel 4.
One month of nightly broadcasts transmitted via satellite to Britain from India and the world's largest festival
Feltschrift: Annie Altschul
Royal College of Nursing, Edinburgh.
Celebrating preeminent UK psychiatric nurse Annie Altschul.
Art for Nurses
Leith School of Art.
Artlink Exhibition, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
The End of Online
Multimedia Drama. 30 minutes. BBC2.
Producer, Director. On the run from hostile government authorities, Russian emigré Andrei Tarkovsky discovers he has the ability to control his computer using only the powers of his mind. He sets out to wreak vengeance on his enemies - but are they real or merely imagined?
Bliss Behind Bars
Documentary, 60 mins. Producer, Director. Channel 4.
Exclusive, unique footage of three weeks I spent filming inside Tihar Jail, Asia's largest and most notorious prison. This special access was given by Kiran Bedi, India's first female police officer and the (then) newly-appointed director of Tihar. Subsequent to our shoot she was summarily removed from her post, by more powerful colleagues jealous of her high visibility and humanist policies. The doors of Tihar are again closed to the outside world.
Terry Gets Married
Documentary, 30 mins. Director/Camera. BBC.
In Scotland's Bhatra Sikh traditions, Terry Singh will not see his bride Sharon until their wedding day. With unprecedented unique access, the film charts the 10-day Sikh wedding, revealing some of the family and cultural conflicts lying beneath the surface.
The Search for Alison MacDonald
Documentary, 56 mins. Director. Channel 4 Television.
In 1981, 19-year-old Alison MacDonald disappeared in the mountains of Kashmir while travelling with a friend. In the many years since then, her father Reverend Kenny MacDonald, has been searching for her, believing she has been kidnapped by one of the nomadic tribes in the area. The film returns with Kenny as he looks among the Bakkerwahl people for his missing daughter.
Brotherly Love
Drama, 56 mins. Co-Producer. Channel 4 Television.
Russell is a failing musician with a manic-depressive chemical dependency. His brother Tam forces him into a car and drives him against his will to the furthest northern coast of Scotland in the hope of a rescue. Slowly, irresistibly, the wild isolation and desolate terrain of the highlands begins to work its magic.
The Shepherds of Berneray
Documentary, 56 mins. Producer, Director, Camera.
Broadcast U.K., W. Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Australia, U.S.A. I spent a year with a cameraman on the small island of Berneray, in the remote Hebridean archipelago off the northwest coast of Scotland. The film documents the annual shepherding cycle, the shepherds who sail among the small islands tending their flocks. This metaphorical device tells a deeper story - that of the enforced migrations, past and present, of Hebridean islanders from their homeland.
Sand, Shells, Skye
90 minute feature drama in three parts.
In development. Writer, Director.
Corporates
Numerous as Writer, Director, Editor.
Clients include Gleneagles Hotels, William Low Supermarkets, The Countryside Commission, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Texaco, The Citadel, Evening Times, Seafish Industries Authority, Eclipse, Inc., Health Education Board Scotland, and others.
Websites include:
Famous Grouse (via Clearcut)
Still Moving
REAP Education Project
Who owns Jack Kerouac?
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The Ruritanian Quartet
Drama, 60 minutes.
The Road On
Experimental road movie, 45 minutes (in post production.)
Macbeth
(adaptation, experimental video, in postproduction) 1 hour 10 minutes.
Train Of Thought
Travelogue in India. 25 minutes.
The Road
Performance piece with Jean-David Caillouet and Jello Sanderson: road movie/poetry/sampled guitar and cello: St. Cecilis's Hall, Cowgate Edinburgh 2001.
The Road
As above, the French Institute Edinburgh 2002.
Jack Kerouac is 81
Kerouac Birthday Party: Performance with US travelling poets. Edinburgh, New York, San Francisco, Louisville, Kentucky. 2003.
Suns are Born
Series of computer-generated images of the sun.
@world.stage
Multimedia internet performance piece linking contributors from around the world to a Glasgow stage. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Silicon Graphics International.
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