Project Detail

Stoneymollan Trail

Synopsis

Using the metaphor of the Stoneymollan Trail, a hiking trail out of Glasgow, the film explores Charlotte Prodger’s personal archive, with material from multiple formats that includes an archive of miniDV tapes that Prodger shot between 1999 and 2004, recent footage shot on her iPhone and HD camera, and screenprinted graphic forms. The resulting single-screen video piece is a meditation on memory, subjectivity and desire.
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

Details

Year
2015
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
52 mins
Director
Charlotte Prodger
Producer
Charlotte Prodger
Editor
Charlotte Prodger
Screenwriter
Charlotte Prodger, with passages from 'Sun Tunnels', Nancy Holt; 'The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village', Samuel R. Delany

Production Status

Production Company

Created with the support of and with thanks to: Glasgow Film, Creative Scotland, Lux Scotland, Katy Dove, Casey O’ Connell, Luke Collins, Luke Fowler, Sarah Forrest, Leigh Ferguson, Isla Leaver-Yap, Lucy Skaer, Maeve Redmond, Ciara Phillips, Mark Vernon, Anna McLaughlan, Tom Varley, Jamie Crewe, Sarah Rose, Ian White, Corinne Orton, Iain Canning, Emilia Muller-Ginorio, Irene Revell, Golden Teacher, Oliver Pitt, Ben Cook, Matt Fitts, Adam Milburn, Conal McStravick, Jenny Brownrigg, Mark Thomas, Rebecca Cleman, Electronic Arts Intermix, Holt-Smithson Foundation

Sales Company

LUX Film and Video (screening rentals)

Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF
Koppe Astner (video sales)
Suite 1-2
6 Dixon Street
Glasgow
G1 4AX

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