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Sam Firth

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Biography

Sam Firth is based and makes work in the Highlands of Scotland. Her films explore the boundaries between documentary, fiction, science and art, personal experience and wider context. Her work has been described as playful and visually poetic, making the everyday cinematic. She is best known for experimental documentary filmmaking. Her first film, I.D., won awards internationally, her second film, THE WORM INSIDE, was selected by Sight & Sound in its eight highlights of the London Short Film Festival. Together they form part of a triptych exploring personal experience that culminates with the year-long project STAY THE SAME, a cross platform piece exploring our relationship with time funded by Creative Scotland and the BFI. Stay the Same has won numerous awards and is still being screened international. Sam has her own independent production company Lacunae Films (formerly Tiny Spark Productions) which she set up in order to produce her work. She has also produces community film projects has won awards for her work with children and young people.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

I.D.

7.0(0.0K)

A teenager finds her identity through the intimacy of the photo booth.

Stay the Same

Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same place and same time, this experimental film-poem documents the desire to clutch and hold each moment.

The Wolf Suit

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.

The Worm Inside

An intimate account of a filmmaker grappling with the mysteries of the human body, the failings of a homogenised medical system and the seductive nature of alternative medicine. A challenge to the currently prevailing idea that illness may be within our control if we try hard enough.

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The Worm Inside

Self

Production

MOVIE

Field Notes On Love

In Sam Firth's essay film "Field Notes On Love" a romantic relationship between a filmmaker and an ecologist interweaves explorations of categorisation, individuality, and a collective 'us'. Human and nonhuman entanglements are enticingly allegorised amidst a lush Scottish woodland.

The Wolf Suit

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.

Stay the Same

Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same place and same time, this experimental film-poem documents the desire to clutch and hold each moment.

I.D.

7.0(0.0K)

A teenager finds her identity through the intimacy of the photo booth.

Up in Smoke

A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.

UFO

After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.

The Mug

After falling in love with Mhairi online, Jon travels from the USA to Scotland to meet her. When he gets there however, things don't go quite as he imagined.

The Wolf Suit

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.

The Wolf Suit

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.

The Wolf Suit

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.

Play Trailer

The Wolf Suit

Producer

Sam Firth Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Sam Firth

Biography

Filmography Movies

Acting

I.D.

Stay the Same

The Wolf Suit

The Worm Inside

Production

Field Notes On Love

The Wolf Suit

Stay the Same

I.D.

Up in Smoke

UFO

The Mug

The Wolf Suit

The Wolf Suit

The Wolf Suit