Adam Scovell Trailers
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Trailer
Most Popular Adam Scovell Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
The Economy of the Dead Trailer (2017)
09 December 2017
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.
Weather Words Trailer (2018)
02 September 2018
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.
Holloway Trailer (2015)
02 July 2015
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.
Artefacts Trailer (2014)
05 July 2014
Artefacts details the parts of The Wirral landscape that appear to have had life there but now only shows remnants of it.
Heavy Water Trailer (2016)
05 September 2016
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.
Greenteeth Trailer (2017)
08 October 2017
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.
Salthouse Marshes Trailer (2015)
31 October 2015
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.
Forest Trailer (2014)
09 February 2014
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.
Arcadia Trailer (2017)
08 October 2017
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema.
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Trailer (2021)
09 September 2021
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.
The Coastal Path Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost.
Weirdstone (For Alan Garner) Trailer (2015)
01 February 2015
Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner.
Tarot Trailer (2014)
16 November 2014
Short super 8 folk horror film about witches' rites performed in a stone circle.
No Diggin' Here Trailer (2016)
30 October 2016
Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story.
Ness Trailer (2019)
08 December 2019
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.
Hope In The Dark Trailer (2017)
23 April 2017
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.
Four Hills Trailer (2014)
02 January 2014
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.
The Menhir Motorway Trailer (2016)
03 April 2016
The Menhir Motorway is a super-8 film looking at the Ballard-scapes found on the peninsula of The Wirral, specifically in Wallasey.
The Attempt Trailer (2016)
07 December 2016
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One.
The Book of Sand Trailer (2014)
06 April 2014
Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion.
A Walk By Waiting Trailer (2016)
05 June 2016
A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London.
An Impossible Dérive Trailer (2015)
08 July 2015
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.
