Some updates on several graduates from 09:
Chris Cook (class of 09) is currently dubbing a new short fiction film of his, with one of the MA Sound Design students, at Merchiston Avenue. The film was edited by Lewis Carmichael (also 09).
Lewis Carmichael and Leo McHugh both have jobs in post-production at BBC Scotland in Glasgow.
Turo Delgado Pereira is completing his MFA graduation film, a feature length documentary set in his home town in Spain.
Ian Marrs works as a camera assistant on ‘Game of Thrones’, an HBO medieval fantasy series that is filmed in Ireland. Lucy Caird (graduate of 2010) works as a production assistant on the same series.
Julian Schwanitz has just graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art.
Daniel Taylor is working for the BBC on the ‘Antiques Road Show’.
Edinburgh Napier’s cultural influence is indeed alive and well!
The final work has a solidity, a sort of sedimentary delineation of wooden flooring, plasterboard, reflected with the sky in a cracked-mirror pool across the bottom of the skip. So too the film, a found thing, a process. One almost wants to watch a film about the making of this one, a cyclical, self-referential project about a project about… Documentary should aim for the Reithian ideals, to educate, inform, and entertain – here it goes a little further, becoming art.
