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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 its resurgence in the last decade.
A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost.
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
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.
Short super 8 folk horror film about witches' rites performed in a stone circle.
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.
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.
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.