Susan Thomson

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Cut the Parrot Trailer

Susan Thomson is a writer, visual artist and filmmaker working across the formal boundaries of visual art, film and literature. Susan is currently directing The Swimming Diaries funded by an Arts Council of Ireland Reel Art film award. This is an experimental docufiction feature length film based on her memoir/artist's book, which was previously exhibited at X Initiative, New York and Tate Modern, London, and was exhibited and sold for many years at Artbook@PS1 MoMA, New York. The Swimming Diaries film had its World premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival in February 2024. It is Official Selection at the Kerry International Film Festival, Ireland in October 2024, and has been selected for Visions du Reel, Ji.hlava Documentary Festival and Thessaloniki AGORA industry film markets.

Most Popular Susan Thomson Trailers

Total trailers found: 6

The Swimming Diaries Trailer (2024)

28 February 2024

Floating between conceptual documentary and experimental fiction, this film chronicles the 25,000 metres that Thomson swam during the period of her mother’s death.

Tower Trailer (2016)

13 March 2016

Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

Ghost Empire § Singapore Trailer (2014)

26 September 2014

A documentary that looks at the anti-homosexuality law in Singapore, section 377A, which criminalizes male homosexuality with up to two years of a prison sentence.

Ghost Empire § Cyprus Trailer (2013)

10 July 2013

A look at the numerous recent arrests of gay men in Northern Turkish occupied Cyprus, including even the former Finance Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, under a British colonial law dating from 1889.

Cut the Parrot Trailer (1996)

27 December 1996

In his first film, A Prayer for Nettie, Donigan Cumming had placed Albert at the heart of the posthumous tribute to Nettie, his former model.

Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos Trailer (2025)

23 March 2025

A dreamy, experimental documentary exploring the legacy of British colonialism in Mauritius and the Chagos Islands.