Adam Scovell

7.2

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Sep 09, 2021

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

2021 193 min 18 vues

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 its resurgence in the last decade.

Documentary

1

The Coastal Path

Jan 01, 2014

The Coastal Path

2014 6 min 1 vues

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

Horror

1

The Coastal Path

Jan 01, 2014

The Coastal Path

2014 6 min 1 vues

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

Horror

1

Four Hills

Jan 02, 2014

Four Hills

2014 4 min 1 vues

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.

1

Tarot

Nov 16, 2014

Tarot

2014 3 min 1 vues

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

1

The Book of Sand

Apr 06, 2014

The Book of Sand

2014 7 min 1 vues

Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.

1

The Book of Sand

Apr 06, 2014

The Book of Sand

2014 7 min 1 vues

Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.

1

An Impossible Dérive

Jul 08, 2015

An Impossible Dérive

2015 6 min 1 vues

A super-8 essay film using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to comment upon the changing landscape and topography of Liverpool in order to highlight the increased bid towards its homogenisation.

6.607

Forest

Feb 09, 2014

Forest

2014 3 min 14 vues

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.

1

Heavy Water

Sep 05, 2016

Heavy Water

2016 7 min 1 vues

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 associations of the occultish underbelly of 20th century British art. This short film explores coastline of the Sizewell B Nuclear power station.

Documentary

1

An Impossible Dérive

Jul 08, 2015

An Impossible Dérive

2015 6 min 1 vues

A super-8 essay film using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to comment upon the changing landscape and topography of Liverpool in order to highlight the increased bid towards its homogenisation.

1

The Book of Sand

Apr 06, 2014

The Book of Sand

2014 7 min 1 vues

Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.

1

Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)

Feb 01, 2015

Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)

2015 3 min 1 vues

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

1

Artefacts

Jul 05, 2014

Artefacts

2014 3 min 1 vues

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

1

Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)

Feb 01, 2015

Weirdstone (For Alan Garner)

2015 3 min 1 vues

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

1

A Walk By Waiting

Jun 05, 2016

A Walk By Waiting

2016 3 min 1 vues

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

1

The Menhir Motorway

Apr 03, 2016

The Menhir Motorway

2016 4 min 1 vues

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 and pathways.

1

The Menhir Motorway

Apr 03, 2016

The Menhir Motorway

2016 4 min 1 vues

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 and pathways.

1

No Diggin' Here

Oct 30, 2016

No Diggin' Here

2016 3 min 1 vues

Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story.

1

No Diggin' Here

Oct 30, 2016

No Diggin' Here

2016 3 min 1 vues

Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story.

1

The Attempt

Dec 07, 2016

The Attempt

2016 6 min 1 vues

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

1

Hope In The Dark

Apr 23, 2017

Hope In The Dark

2017 2 min 1 vues

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.

1

The Attempt

Dec 07, 2016

The Attempt

2016 6 min 1 vues

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

1

Salthouse Marshes

Oct 31, 2015

Salthouse Marshes

2015 7 min 1 vues

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.

1

Salthouse Marshes

Oct 31, 2015

Salthouse Marshes

2015 7 min 1 vues

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.

1

Greenteeth

Oct 08, 2017

Greenteeth

2017 5 min 1 vues

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.

1

The Economy of the Dead

Dec 09, 2017

The Economy of the Dead

2017 3 min 1 vues

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.

1

Greenteeth

Oct 08, 2017

Greenteeth

2017 5 min 1 vues

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.

1

Heavy Water

Sep 05, 2016

Heavy Water

2016 7 min 1 vues

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 associations of the occultish underbelly of 20th century British art. This short film explores coastline of the Sizewell B Nuclear power station.

Documentary

1

Weather Words

Sep 02, 2018

Weather Words

2018 10 min 1 vues

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.inplace.co.uk www.celluloidwickerman.com

1

Holloway

Jul 02, 2015

Holloway

2015 9 min 1 vues

A film adaptation of the Holloway book by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards. The film was made alongside Macfarlane who has written and recorded its voice-over, Donwood who allowed the use of many of his Holloway inspired prints, composer Richard Skelton who has recorded an entirely new piece of musical score for it, and sound artist, James Bulley who let us use his Holloway recording project. More info can be found here: https://celluloidwickerman.com/2015/01/19/filming-in-the-holloways/

1

Weather Words

Sep 02, 2018

Weather Words

2018 10 min 1 vues

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.inplace.co.uk www.celluloidwickerman.com

7.1

Arcadia

Oct 08, 2017

Arcadia

2017 82 min 8 vues

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 beings to nature since the beginning of time.

Documentary

1

Ness

Dec 08, 2019

Ness

2019 11 min 1 vues

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.

1

Ness

Dec 08, 2019

Ness

2019 11 min 1 vues

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.