Adam Scovell Movies

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

Heavy Water is the latest film by Adam Scovell. Adam’s films plait parallel histories – folk horror, literature, experimental film,...

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...

Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

A super-8 essay film using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to comment upon the changing landscape and topography of Liverpool in...

A film adaptation of the Holloway book by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards. The film was made alongside Macfarlane who has...