Alongside James Thomson, I am Filmmaker in Residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for 2024-25 with Tonic Arts. During the 18 month residency we are running filmmaking workshops with patients, staff, and volunteers, with the aim of filmmaking practices into the hospital community.
The work-in-progress stills shown here are from one of our projects, cameraless films made by participants from the REH Community Garden, the Orchard Clinic, and Eden and Harlaw Wards between May and July 2024. The images are made by attaching small cuttings of plant matter from green spaces around the hospital onto a blank 16mm reel. Once the film is scanned, the incredible details of the plants become visible, representing the place and time in which they were made.
Funded by Tonic Arts and Screen Scotland.
Film supplied and scanned by On8mil.
