Stay the Same

  • Saturday 3rd December

    I wasn’t originally going to post moving images from my daily filming so as not to spoil the final film, but had to share this!

  • Response #8 Dad

    TRAPPED IN TIME! I don’t know where the title, STAY THE SAME, came from or why, but it seems that a condition of life is that we are limited in time and we have changed and will change. So there is something of a trap, set by yourself, that has incredible resonance and poignancy. You…

  • Trapped in time

    The weather has been pretty wild and there is more forecast to come. I came out one morning last week and the platform was covered in seaweed and pebbles so I have taken to hanging kitchen weights off the tripod in a pair of pink socks on windy days. A very girls own way to…

  • Agnes Varda

    Eighty year old Agnes Varda walks backwards through her incredible life revisiting places and people.

  • Occidentally Singing Outloud

    Another little film made with my mobile phone attempting to catch a moment on the beach at sunset. I kind of forgot I was filming and started to sing out loud to the music on my headphones so I made it part of the film.

  • #7 Emma Lindley

    I am always travelling these days and what I’ve discovered is that many things, although seemingly different and far away, are essentially the same.  A plane is a plane is a plane.  An apartment, whether in London or New York, furnished or empty, is where you lay your head.  Friends on both sides of the…

  • Auggie’s Photo Album

    This is for Tommy’s dad Mac (and for me) . . . click on the picture or the link below to play this film clip Auggie’s Photo Album from the film Smoke (1995) And thank you to Davie Newton for reminding me about this nearly two years ago while I was making the test film…

  • #6 Mac’s Gate

    My friend Tommy who is the postman and ranger here on Knoydart told me a while ago about his dad Mac who has been taking pictures of the same gate every Monday for the last twenty years and Mac has kindly sent me some of his pictures. I think they are quite beautiful.

  • #5 Ailidh Morrison

    Friend, Eigg dweller, talented poet and fellow wood tiger Ailidh Morrison responded with this  . . .   It is as if, time had not passed Nor moved your face from mine Though thundering waves denote a different season passing As yet I am still Inside our time Rain wreaks havoc on a muddied window…

  • #4 Jessica – Back to future

    A good friend and fellow film maker Jessica Townsend sent me this link to Irina Wernings Back to the Future project today. Click here for more pictures. They are quite wonderful.