Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray is one of the giants of Scottish Arts, gaining a reputation as a great writer, artist, notorious drunkard, irascible interviewee and controversial essayist. In this intimate portrait, filmed over the course of 15 years, he has allowed himself to be filmed creating work that has become part of the living heritage of Scotland. This feature length documentary gets behind the hype, revealing a character who is by turns incisive, chaotic and laugh out loud funny. There is no one better that Alasdair if you want to understand the cultural drive for independence.

Alasdair Gray adapts the Robert Louis Stevenson story of the same name.

L'histoire du whisky a été racontée de nombreuses fois. Mais ce film adopte un point de vue différent, montrant comment elle a été façonnée par la géologie et le climat, par des histoires racontées sur le bord de la route et dans les coins des pubs. Le whisky est un produit du folklore et du mythe, de la musique et de l'alchimie, du hasard plutôt que de la volonté. C'est un récit tortueux, changeant et à multiples facettes. Dans ce voyage à travers les aspects les moins connus de la culture du whisky écossais, nous suivons l'écrivain Dave Broom dans sa quête d'une meilleure compréhension de sa boisson nationale. Alors que le whisky n'a jamais été aussi populaire, il est souvent considéré comme une marque qui reste en dehors de la vie des gens. On le considère souvent comme une boisson qui parle du passé plutôt que de s'engager dans un présent dynamique.

The Bedfords tells the story of Sir Edwin Landseer, a famed artist and favourite portrait painter of Queen Victoria. The film opens on Landseer as he travels from his studio in London to the Highlands of Scotland to visit The Bedford family whose portrait he has been commissioned to paint. After the long coach journey north Landseer awakes and makes a sleepy entrance to the Highland home of The Bedfords. The domineering Duke of Bedford welcomes Landseer as the family gather in the drawing room to meet this famous London artist, a celebrity of his day.

Alasdair Gray adapts the Robert Louis Stevenson story of the same name.

Alasdair Gray adapts the Robert Louis Stevenson story of the same name.

A dramatised account of the manufacture of a woollen garment.

A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his garden.

A picture of the development of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, as seen through the photography of Scots-Italian photographer Oscar Marzaroli.

The screening of the short film 'Faces' at the 1961 Edinburgh and London Film Festivals kick started the film career of young McConnell, then studying at Glasgow School of Art. 'Faces', a comment on the personas we adopt, was inspired by a visit to the Brussels Experimental Film Festival of 1958 where McConnell saw the work of many European film makers, films of a genre unseen at that time in Britain. Many were without words, telling their stories in a variety of genres, live action, animation, puppetry, and making social comments on their times.