Screenings, films, filmmaking

Current work in production: An experimental 16mm film & sound portrait with associate film programme, Open Project funding, Creative Scotland and CCA, Glasgow, 2024–2025 

Participating in ‘Video Poems for the 90s’, a 16mm filmmaking workshop with Ute Aurand, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, 29 March 2024 (Screen Scotland/Urth Productions bursary)

16mm DP for Hannan Jones’ production, screening at pass shadow, whisper shade, Satellites Group Show, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 18 Oct 2024 — 22 Dec 2024, (location shoot 30 Sept-2 Oct 2024)

Participating in Bridging the Gap documentary scheme, R&D on an experimental/documentary short, Scottish Documentary Institute, Oct 2023–Jan 2024

16mm DP sequences for Conor Baird for Femme Disturbance, a solo show at Glasgow Project Room, March 2024, screening at Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2024, Glasgow, ‘Scottish Shorts 2’ programme Thursday 10 October 2024, CCA Cinema and Bradford Queer Film Festival, 24 November 2024; 16mm work with Khadea Santi (MFA), winter 2023 and spring 2024, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (MFA degree show)

Ilam Actual (version), 16mm film with sound: Luke Fowler with Alex Hetherington and Lee Patterson, Arts & Heritage, shot Ilam Park, June 2023. Arts&Heritage Screening Room, screening 6–19 November 2023

SISTER FILMS, CCA Annex, with Catherine Street and Luke Fowler, web page developed by Rectangle, March 2023, with a text by Jessica Higgins, The Making of a Film, published June 2023, MAP Magazine and CCA ANNEX

DOP on On Volya, 16mm film by Ayla Dmyterko, in production 2023, funded by Creative Scotland and screening at Galerie Pangée, Montreal, Canada, June 3 – July 17 2023 and screening with Kiev Frescoes (1966), dir. Sergei Parajanov, 7 September 2023, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; screening London Short Film Festival, January 2024; Drawing From Calcerous Milk Teeth, aCinema Summer Screening Series curated by Takahiro Suzuki and Janelle VanderKelen, Woodland Pattern, 720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI, US, July 21st 2024; screening with Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) by Sergei Parajanov at UKINO, SODA School of Digital Arts Cinema, Manchester, 7 August 2024

DOP on shoot 1 and 2 Haunting (working title), 16mm film by Annie Crabtree, in production 2022/2023, funded by Creative Scotland

16mm film cameraless workshop, Deveron Projects, Huntly, Sat 21 & Sun 22 January 2023, with In the Shadow of the Hand (Sarah Forrest & Virginia Huchison)

Chimera: image making with 16mm film, two-part workshop as part of Chimera, Nashashibi/Skaer, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 30 September – 10 December 2022

Not the wick, nor the candle, but the burning: George Finlay Ramsay, Mark Thomson, Coby Sey, Alex Hetherington, Rebecca Salvadori, Sandro Mussida, Camden Art Centre, London, 26 August 2022

Words for Appropriation & Dedication, 24 June 2022, 7pm, CCA, Glasgow: Women’s Studies, Catherine Street, live performance, Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett), Luke Fowler, 35mm print and Stereo Rushes (silent), Alex Hetherington, 16mm film prints on two projectors with spoken word text

The experience of the unseen listener, Women’s Studies Vol. 1 & 2 and Idle Work, 16mm films, funded by Open Project, Creative Scotland, 2022, with 3 texts written by Catherine Street screening at SEEN AND NOT SEEN, CCA, Glasgow, 3 June – 16 July 2022

DOP with Luke Fowler for artist George Finlay Ramsay 16mm colour film, Family Fugue, in production 2022, for Generator Projects, Dundee, October 2022, funded by Creative Scotland with support from the Hope Scott Trust. Screenings at Camden Art Centre, London, August 2022, Glasgow Short Film Festival, 24 March 2023, Rencontres International Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March 2023, Alchemy Film Festival, April 2023, EXIS Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, July 2023, Moving Terrain, Laboratório da Torre, Porto, Portugal, 27 November 2023, PAF Olomouc, Czech Republic, 10 December 2023 and London Short Film Festival 2024, Ancestral Remembrance, January 27 2024

Camera assistance (Canon Scoopic), ‘Notes for Pas de Deux’, 16mm split screen project, Jennifer Wicks, University of Stirling/Norman McLaren residency, funded by Creative Scotland, 2022

DOP on Are You Going My Way?, Rachel McBrinn, 16mm film, funded by Rhubaba Gallery & Studios, Edinburgh, 2021-2023, premiere at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 17 April 2023, screening online MAP magazine, 18 April to 18 May 2023, Today We Live, screening at Market Gallery, Glasgow 1 May 2024 and Alchemy Film Festival 2024

DOP on Dear F…, Hannan Jones, 16mm film, 2022, funded by Little Pictures, GMAC, Glasgow, 2021-2023, screening Glasgow Film Festival, industry event, March 06 2023 and Glasgow Short Film Festival, industry event, 23 March 2023. Selected 13 film programme, a programme by Videoclub: RCA, London, 25 October 2023, Fabrica, Brighton, 6 October 2023, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 14 November 2023, CCA, Glasgow, 21 November 2023 and Nottingham Contemporary, 28 November 2023 and MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, January 27 – February 1, 2024, Screen Talent Europe at Berlinale, 16 February 2024, Alchemy Film Festival 2024, ‘The Ground Is Not Unchanging’, programmed by Mina Heydari-Waite, 24 May 2024, Offline, Glasgow and (forthcoming) London Short Film Festival January 2025

Women’s Studies, 16mm film, 2021, Alex Hetherington & Catherine Street, developed at a Creative Lab, CCA, Glasgow, August 2021, supported by Creative Scotland 2021-2022 

DOP for artist George Finlay Ramsay research and development 16mm colour film, screening at Heavy Centre, 26-29 November 2021, Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania and at Podium, Oslo, Norway, filmed on location at Bamff, East Perthshire, August 2021

Second camera and matte box for Wendy Kirkup 16mm film rough cut botanical (2022), with contributions from Nichola Scrutton and Anna Souter, filmed Glasgow and Stirling, October–December 2021, screening at Visions in the Nunnery 2022, Program 1 curated by Patrick Goddard, Bow Arts, London, October 7 to November 6 2022, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US, March 2023, Ann Arbor Film Festival 61 touring programme 2023–2024: Kalamazoo Film Society, Kalamazoo, MI, US, German-American Institute, Tübingen, Germany, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023, 10 August 2023, Braziers International Film Festival, 1 Sept 2023, Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, Wisconsin, Sept 27, 2023, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, October 24, 2023, Glacier Hills Senior Living Community, Ann Arbor, MI, November 16, 2023, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, February 13, 2024 and ​Minneapolis College of Art & Design Cinema, Minneapolis, MN, February 15, 2024

One artist | One work, George Finlay Ramsay/Alexander Hetherington, 30 September 2021; online exhibition of the film, 1–30 September 2021, LUX Scotland, with a commissioned text by CAConrad

Castorocene (2021) screening at Münster Film Festival, 23 September 2021, Walk-In Cinema, VAEFE first edition, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands, 23–25 September 2021, WNDX Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, 10 October 2021, AMIF, Pavilion, Leeds (online), 20 October 2021, Swedenborg Film Festival, London, 11 December 2021, London Short Film Festival, January 2022, Norient Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland, January 2022, Stuttgart FilmWinter, Festival for Expanded Media, January 2022, Glasgow Short Film Festival, (Eco-spectrality: Residual Fabulations, curated by Ane Lopez, A+E Collective), March 2022, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, 29 April 2022, rile*, Brussels, Belgium, 1 April 2022, Tender Books, London for FieldNotes #3, 7 April 2022, Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen, Norway 25 June 2022, ANIMISMS, curated by Alex Hamish Millar, We See, Will See, Are Seen, Have Scene, New Phoenix Cinema, GAMIS, Glasgow 7 August 2022, Braziers Film Festival, (Radical Instincts programme), Sunday 4 September 2022, screening at Elucidate the wit, sanctify the spirit, clarify the intention, 25 May 2023, CCA, Glasgow, curated by Julija Šilytė & Milda Valiulytė, screening at Moving Terrain at Laboratório da Torre,  Porto, Portugal, 27 November 2023, PAF Olomouc, Czech Republic, 10 December 2023, Mirage, Wednesday 26 June 2024, Micro Film Festival, Bermondsey Project Space, London, programmed by Lily Ashrowan and at The Screens of Blue Nothingness, curated by Martyna Ratnik, Meno Avilys Cinematheque, Vilnius, Lithuania, 10 September 2024

DOP for artist George Finlay Ramsay’s 16mm film production Castorocene, shot at the wetlands at Bamff, commissioned by Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania, filmed January 2021

Camera operator for Tako Taal’s departures (2021), 16mm film transferred to digital, shot at ECA, December 2020, funded by Jerwood Arts (Canon Scoopic and Beaulieu R16), screened at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022

portals, publication launch readings by Rosie Roberts, Lotte L.S. and Daisy Lafarge and screening Alex Hetherington, Untitled (eclectic poison), 16mm, silent, 2020, published and organized by SPAM Press, August 6, 2020

Anxiety & Invocation at Experiments in Cinema: Luke Fowler, Rachel Maclean, Duncan Marquiss, Kimberley O’Neill, Alex Hetherington with Michelle Hannah, Sean Martin, Beagles & Ramsay, Holly McLean, Louise Milne, Sandra Johnston & Richard Ashrowan. Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, 14-18 April 2020 (postponed to June 2020)

Screening 16mm films from Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting at …on being still but moving at the same time, curated by Claricia Parinussa, Dance Base, Edinburgh, 2 November 2019

Open, StreetLevel, Glasgow, September- November 2019

Twin Eye, double 16mm film screening at Studio Jamming, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 18 September 2019, with films by Alex Hetherington, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, spoken word by Robert Ashley and readings from Judith Butler

‘Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting’; 16mm film as a collaborative action, Open Project funded research and collaborative film production, made with the participation of Emma Balkind, Leah Millar, Rowan Markson, Nathalie de Briey, Wendy Kirkup, Helen McCrorie, Rosie Roberts, Michelle Hannah, Anonymous, Catherine Street and Anne-Marie Copestake, 2019-2020

Stills One – Alexander Hetherington, curated by Nancé Baric, Get it on the Neg, Montréal, Canada, July 2019

Films and speaks, performative talk, Futures Festival, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, January 2019

(A Plan) for A Spell, films and readings by  Susan Sontag, Jo Ann Kaplan, Laida Lertxundi, Emily Wardill, Vera Frenkel and Lynn Hershman-Leeson, read by Anne-Marie Copestake, Market Gallery, Glasgow, July 2018

Work with Stone, 16mm film, FRACTO Film, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, 24-27 May 2018

“Press the eject and give me the tape”, Anne-Marie Copestake, Kate Davis, Michelle Hannah, Alex Hetherington & Lyndsay Mann performing ‘Utter Utter Utter’, Duncan Marquiss and Corin Sworn, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 17 February 2018

The Singer Has Once More Risen Above the Object of His Song or No Space is Innocent, performative lecture, with Lyndsay Mann and films and video by Gail Pickering, Ursula Mayer and Gabriel Abrantes, texts from Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, and Anne Carson, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 23 November 2017

Kate Davis, Treatment, essay and publication, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2017

Jane Topping, Newspaper/She Was A Visitor, December 2018

Karen Cunningham, Poly, August 2018

Jonathan Owen, Double-X, July 2018

Elín Jakobsdóttir, Ellipses of the Afternoon, with a text by Mark Sadler, January 2018

Catherine Street, Orchids, December 2017

Lauren Printy Currie, settings, November 2017

Helen McCrorie, This is It – Universe, October 2017

Richard Taylor, Anonymiser Particular, September 2017

Andrew Gannon, ENTHUSIASM, August 2017

at No 35, the men and women in the text are referred to as, 16mm film, exhibition and publishing projects, Stirling

Five Propositions, Toward A Scottish Collection of Artists’ Moving Image, a proposition on Sarah Forrest’s The Pot, LUX Scotland, CCA, Glasgow, 13 January 2017

The Hallucinating Edge, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China, screening, 20 December 2016

Pure Movement, K11 Foundation, Wuhan, China, screening and discussion, 18 December 2016

FFWD, Rosalind Nashashibi, Michelle Hannah, Sarah Forrest, Lyndsay Mann, Corin Sworn, Kathryn Elkin, Tom Varley, Anne-Marie Copestake, Anne Colvin, Bobby Niven, Duncan Marquiss, Allison Gibbs, Kate Davis, Katy Dove, Oliver Mezger, Skaer/Nashashibi, Ross Sinclair, Pernille Spence, Cooper Gallery, Dundee and Mingsheng Museum, Shanghai, December 2016 – January 2017

Rachel Reupke & Ursula Mayer, screening of selected works, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2 2016

Do It All On The Same Day and Rerecording, Modern Edinburgh Film School archive, performance reading and publications, October 2015 – August 2016

Elín Jakobsdóttir, Patience in Virtue of Débordement, a discussion and screening of super-8mm and 16mm films, CCA, Glasgow, 24 May 2016

Distribution as (Subversive) Practice, LUX Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 5 April 2016

Silhouette Proximity Panopticon Score, on Lauren Printy Currie, Jessica Ramm, Lyndsay Mann, and Kirsty Hendry, curated insert and text, Scottish Art News, November 2015

Speaker at Curating Materiality, on Feminist Art Histories, Edinburgh College of  Art, June 2015

MOTHS, Lucy Skaer, Anna Lucas, Zoë Forthergill, Amy Pickles, Mairi Lafferty, Allison Gibbs, Anne McGuire, Bobby Niven, Katrina Vallé and Jenny Brady, film screenings, print and performance, Summerhall, Edinburgh, June-July 2015

Ripples on the Pond/A Poetic Measurement, films by Annabel Nicolson, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anne-Marie Copestake, Anne Colvin, Mairi Lafferty, Lauren Gault, Karen Cunningham, Allison Gibbs, Sarah Forrest, Catherine Street, with a new commissioned performance by Ruth Barker and public talks with Iain Morrison, Suzanne van der Lingen, Dr Glyn Davis, Dr Angela McClanahan, and Dr Sarah Neely, with poetry by Margaret Tait, Glasgow University Affiliates/Gallery of Modern Art, CCA, GSS, and Old Hairdressers, May 2015 – April 2016

Queer Information, with Catherine Street, Sean Elder, JL Williams, et al, experimental writing anthology, Modern Edinburgh Film School, December 2014

A new island forming, artists interview artists’ publication with Laura Edbrook, Suzanne van der Lingen, Leah Millar, Katrina Vallé, Annuale 2014, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2014

The Silver River, film, videos and spoken-word performance by Shona Macnaughton, Karen Cunningham, Amy Pickles, Levi Hanes, Alexander Storey Gordon, Yelena Popova, Tako Taal, Suok Woon Yoon, Seijen Choi, Daniel Lichtman and Catherine Street, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow International, 12 April 2014

The Social Media of Too Long, and ACRICIT writing on performance and installation by Dinda Fass, Lauren Gault, Michelle Hannah, Catherine Street, Karen Cunningham, Allison Gibbs, Mairi Lafferty, Modern Edinburgh Film School, March 2014

The Free Arc of Life, writing on Karen Cunningham, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Allison Gibbs, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; Mairi Lafferty, and Georgina Starr, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Modern Edinburgh Film School, November 2013

A Salon of the Voice, with Dr Ella Finer, talk and screening for Georgina Starr, Before Le Cerveau Affamé, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 28 November 2013

Hold This Object Up Until There is Nothing Left of You, film and video by Stephen Sutcliffe, Ben Rivers, Mairi Lafferty, Jen Liu, Bill Leslie, ESW, Edinburgh 31 August 2013

Ute Aurand, FILME, 16mm films, in conversation with Dr Sarah Neely, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 August 2013

Ute Aurand, FILME, Film Lounge, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 2-31 August 2013

Lauren Gault, Granular and Crumb, commissioned film and installation, ESW, 26  – 28 July 2013

Go Around the Board Once More, screening of video by Georgie Grace, Stephen Hurrel, John Adams, Maj Hassager, Savinder Bual, Aurélien Froment, Neill Sheasby, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 June 2013

O, one-day installation of video by Raydale Dower, Aurélien Froment, Karen Donnelan, Alex Tobin, Gemma Copp, Angelo Picozzi, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 11 June 2013

Videotheque, Modern Edinburgh Film School residency and public forums, with Jenny Brady, Annie Crabtree, Mairi Lafferty, Alice Bradshaw, Maurice Carlin, Rachel Cattle & Steve Richards, Andy Hazell, Aurélien Froment, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 1 – 22 June 2013

6000 Posters for Giants and Dwarfs, with moving image works by Rachel Reupke, Shezad Dawood, Laura Edbrook, Tom Smith, Shona Macnaughton, Hazel France, Nathalie de Briey, Dinda Fass, Faith Limbrick, Zoë Fothergill, Rhubaba, Edinburgh, 14 – 16 June 2013

The Good Work, films by Claire Denis and Bobby Niven, with a reading by Catherine Street, Inspace, Edinburgh, 25 May 2013

The Slow-Wave, film screening and talk by Lyndsay Mann, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 May 2013

April Set, installation and video by Zoë Fothergill, performance and video by Sarah Forrest, and performance and talk by Anthony Schrag, ESW, Edinburgh, April 2013