Fiona Robertson

In creating experimental film works at specific sites in Scotland’s rural landscape I am interested in the different ways that we have navigated and understood the natural world we move through and within, in the pre-industrial past, the post-industrial present, and into an imagined future. My 2014 film GREENHEAD takes place in one such landscape. The film’s action revolves around a large pagan-like head covered in grass set within the post-industrial cityscape. The monologue ’50 ways to murder magic’ (Antonin Artaud 1947) running in the background, is audible intermittently. There are 3 performers 2 disguised in elaborate costumes, representing various incarnations of the ‘self ‘. In parallel to the dialogue the narrative is fragmented, interspersed by sequences of animated drawings. The film can be viewed as a poetic metaphor, an expressive gesture in the tradition of Dada.

Maya Deren (dir.), At Land (1944)

Guy Maddin (dir.), The Forbidden Room (2015)

Mark Jenkin (dir.) Enys Men (2022)