Evolutionary Jerks and Gradualist Creeps

Director: Duncan Marquiss

Year: 2018

The eccentric collection of the McManus museum in Dundee is reorganised into a new analogical composition that tests new and unexpected relationships between things. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

Director: Duncan Marquiss

Year: 2015

Considering innate human foraging behaviour by comparing a biologist’s field study of goshawks with searching in other contexts. The project developed from conversations between the artist Duncan Marquiss and his father, biologist Dr. Mick Marquiss. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

Director: Tatiana Collet Apraxine

Year: 2028

You awaken on a fog-shrouded shoreline and meet Echo, a strange child with a hole in their stomach. Together you cross a lantern festival where the veil between worlds is thinnest, sail into an ocean that opens beneath you, and descend through a portal into the Underworld. The Underworld moves through different facets of grief: a rave where silhouettes dance in slow motion, indifferent to Echo's attempts to reach them; a frozen sea where giant statues crack open to release a buried memory of a lost mother; a shadow theatre where an anger monster is unleashed, reducing everything to embers. From the embers, a boat carries you into a vast darkness, where Mother appears, and they are finally reunited. You sail together to the Tree of Life, a bioluminescent, cosmic jungle. Echo begs her to return to the World of the Living, but ancestors appear and surround you. She cannot come back - the journey was never about bringing her back. Echo, revealed to be your own child self, dissolves around you as the hole fills with light.