Project Detail

Childish

Synopsis

Archive footage, music and voice combine to explore the choreography of childhood and the possibility of childish autonomy.
In a world ruled by adults, how does the child in film resist oppression and control? The childish imagination escapes in flights of fantasy, both brief and absorbing. Energy is directed and contained. "I'm live as a battery. Who am I to you?"

Details

Year
2024
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
15 min
Director
Emily Munro
Producer
Emily Munro
Executive Producer
National Library of Scotland
Editor
Emily Munro
Screenwriter
Emily Munro
Director of Photography
Various
Composer
Michael Maftean
Research Consultant
Professor Karen Lury, University of Glasgow

Production Status

Production Company

Supported by University of Glasgow

Emily Munro

Moving Image Archive
c/o National Library of Scotland
Kelvin Hall
1445 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G3 8AW

Sales Company

Emily Munro

Moving Image Archive
c/o National Library of Scotland
Kelvin Hall
1445 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G3 8AW

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

Living Proof: A Climate Story Living Proof: A Climate Story

Director: Emily Munro

Year: 2021

A poignant and challenging archive documentary that looks for the roots of the climate crisis in post-war history. Are we heading into new territory, or could we be caught in a cycle of familiar promises? Is climate change the inevitable consequence of our quest for energy and growth? Where does culpability lie? Living Proof searches for the roots of the crisis in our recent history. Archive footage from Scotland's national archive portrays a country shaped by the demands of modernity while an eclectic soundtrack amplifies the voices of the past in powerful and unsettling ways.

Galicia! Galicia!

Director: Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg

Year: 2026

What if you went on a holiday and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days. We live in a time where the sense of our impending mutually assured destruction is more real than it’s ever been. GALICIA! Takes the form of a holiday video - a document of a couple before - and after the great cataclysm. The film starts as something that feels unedited - an accidental video diary of an ordinary couple that feels somewhat ghostly as much as it is also pedestrian. As the film evolves and degrades, we are led to question the fragility of humanity, as well as its power to endure.

Holyhead Santa: A True Story Holyhead Santa: A True Story

Director: Pamela Ryder

Year: 2026

A kind hearted, working class volunteer dons the Santa suit each year, quietly transforming his community through simple acts of generosity, testing whether his belief in giving can inspire others to carry the magic forward.