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.<br /> 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. <br /> The project developed from conversations between the artist Duncan Marquiss and his father, biologist Dr. Mick Marquiss.<br /> Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

Director: Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin

Year: 2025

A poetic memoir and political report, shot in Berlin and Leipzig, and in landscapes around the British Isles. The film’s narrative builds out from the events of the Reichstag Fire in Berlin in 1933 in which the pioneering German-Jewish sound recordist, Ludwig Koch, on whom the film ultimately centres, plays a minor role, placing him and his family in danger. The film is structured in two parts, juxtaposing Koch’s persecution in Nazi Germany with his experiences as a refugee recording bird song and other sounds in Britain. <br /> The film’s images of contemporary urban and rural terrains, and of objects and documents, create a collision between past and present. Shifts in time are further emphasised through the use of Koch’s original sound recordings from Germany and Britain which feature throughout the film.