Most Popular Richard Ashrowan Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
Of The Excellency of Wheate Trailer (2016)
10 September 2016
Robert Fludd was a distinguished English alchemical philosopher, light metaphysician and Kabbalist. In the 1620s he published a tract on wheat, the “Tractatus de Tritico”, in which he described a series of experiments in which he extracted the luminous quintessence, or celestial fire, from wheat.
Evocation Trailer (2024)
23 April 2024
A ritual evocation set on Dartmoor, through stone and water, the senses unfolding, drawing inward, and creating.
Passage Trailer (2019)
19 September 2019
A study in the visceral: labour, the weight of the body, how we might traverse space, and perhaps life itself, together and apart, participating, denying, folding, collapsing, surrendering, spinning, falling.
Mercurious Trailer (2015)
25 August 2015
An installation work, with voiceover from the Aurelia Occulta (Theatrum Chemicum, 1659), a text dealing with aspects of Mercury, or mercurius, one of the most important and intangible of all alchemical concepts.
Dead Metaphor Trailer (2019)
14 May 2019
Fire as a metaphor, and a worn out linguistic failure, the dead metaphor. Aristotle said, in the Poetics, “Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species, or from species to genus, or from species to species, on the grounds of analogy” Metaphor here can only give way to the real.
The Rainbow Trailer (2013)
20 May 2013
An adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow (1915), and a personal exploration of memory, the moon, the shadows of things and some psychological aspects of the filmstrip itself – its ‘Luna’ nature and its appetite for light.
Fingal’s Cave Trailer (2008)
25 February 2008
Filmed in Fingal’s Cave, a dramatic sea cave almost an hour’s journey by sea from the Island of Mull, over the course of seven separate visits.
Green Man Trailer (2008)
20 February 2008
A conversation of sorts with an ancient archetype, the vegetative man. The Green Man has been a symbol, a grotesque, a counterpoint, a warning, a celebration, a form of elemental embodiment, since prehistory.
Alchemist Trailer (2010)
26 July 2010
Produced in 2010 in collaboration with performance artists Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Johnston. It explores the transformative qualities of the landscape through alchemy, situated in a sense of the uncanny, the seen, the felt and the imagined.
Five Angels Trailer (2016)
17 September 2016
A blunt Scottish perspective on Brexit, and a lament for alternate possibilities in governance. Featuring the leading politicians behind the UK’s decision to leave the European Union – David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and Theresa May, plus extracts from the angel conversations of the English magus John Dee, from 1582, alongside some thinking about nails as a means to invoke angelic intervention.
Cubiculum Umbrae Trailer (2013)
20 May 2013
A critique on the presence of cultural tourism in the high Arctic, an experience diminished by the hunger of the camera for fixed images.
Index Trailer (2018)
05 April 2018
An index of the thoughts of a single day, at home in Scotland, in the cold and dark of February.
Reflections, Inversions, Symmetries Trailer (2010)
17 September 2010
Taking a more structural approach to the filmed image, this work explores a preoccupation with reflections, with Deleuze and the 'crystal image'.
Lumen Trailer (2018)
01 May 2018
A silent exploration of light and gesture, finding the light, losing it, moments of exploration, hesitation and connection.
That Apart Trailer (2019)
29 August 2019
"The troubles created a generation of escapologists. My generation became experts in the art ofdisappearances and denials followed by ignominious returns.
Diagram Trailer (2011)
16 September 2011
Filmed in Iceland, this work explores the idea of the fixed and the volatile as a diagrammatic space.
Speculum Trailer (2014)
08 August 2014
Speculum is a moving image sigil, an attempt at a rehabilitation of the present through the prism of the past.
Substitute Trailer (2018)
20 May 2018
A question of daffodils, or representation as substitution, or substitution as representation: a filn
Lament Trailer (2008)
24 August 2008
Made in the summer of 2008, out of an exploration of the Anglo/Scots borderline, one of the oldest borders in the world, an enquiry into the meanings that might be revealed at its heart and within its landscape.
Twelve Frames Left Trailer (2012)
01 October 2012
A lament for the utopia of celluloid dreams, dreams of light and color in an almost monochrome worldl
Mutus Floris Trailer (2011)
30 May 2011
Mutus Floris (mute or silent flowers) is composed of over 5000 individual photographs of wild flowers taken over three seasons, at Phenzhopehaugh in Scotland.
Evanescence Trailer (2007)
01 October 2007
A series of five ‘movements’. Each movement lasts between one and three minutes on a continuous loop.
