Like most things connected with this project, chance plays a large part. Enter Arild Tveito – a Norwegian artist who has spent five months in residence at the CCA, Glasgow. A couple of weeks ago Arild contacted me to ask if I would screen The Devil’s Plantation to accompany the launch of his publication, Elucidations. This will take place on Friday June 20th – which also happens to be my wedding anniversary.

Arild told me he had caught the…

After its recent outings at the CCA and at Diorama in Oslo, I’m pleased to announce that the movie version of TDP is screening at the Glad Cafe on Friday, 11th July. I live close to the Glad and since much of the film was shot on the southside, it’s great to screen it there, one of the few venues south of the Clyde that shows films.

I’m especially pleased that the wonderful actor, Gary Lewis, who narrates half the…

Strange how things work out.

If it wasn’t for Arild Tveito my film would never have screened at the CCA. Then, after months, The Glad Cafe got in touch to request it. Now, as the result of a chance meeting at the Tramway, I’ve been asked to show the film at the Market Gallery as part of the ongoing Generation programme of exhibition and events celebrating 25 years of contemporary Scottish art. On that score – and thanks…

UPDATE – THE TIME/DATE OF THE BIRKS CINEMA SCREENING IS 2PM, SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER.

I’m pleased to announce a screening of the film at the Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy, courtesy of the Heartland Film Society as part of the Aberfeldy Film Festival. I’ve also agreed to attend because I’m keen to see the cinema, originally built in 1939 but recently refurbished with a 100-seat state-of-the-art digital theatre. I’m happy too to meet the good folks of Aberfeldy so if…

Over these past few months I’ve been too busy working on my latest film, Voyageuse to pay much attention to anything else. So it was a surprise to receive an email from Raymond Strachan at The Lighthouse, Glasgow’s centre for architecture and design, inviting me to screen the film version of The Devil’s Plantation. Raymond previously worked at the Market Gallery and screened the film there in 2014, the last time it was shown in Glasgow. Hard…

Yesterday I was informed by The Lighthouse that next week’s screening of The Devil’s Plantation and talk has been cancelled due to technical reasons. Apologies to anyone who was planning to come along – I was really looking forward to showing the film and talking to Paul Stallan about his work.

I understand the venue will announce the cancellation via Facebook and Twitter. In the meantime I recommend Stallan-Brand’s exhibition, Weather Forms, currently running at The Lighthouse.

I’d love the opportunity…

As I type this my hand hovers hesitantly over the keyboard because I’ve been here before. Over the last few years I’ve had the occasional request to show the film, some reasonable, others not and too often frustrated by a lack of facilities, e.g. being asked to screen on a PowerPoint projector, or for no fee – not even minimum wage. Or, as I was asked last year by the organisers of Doors Open Day, to screen at…