FILM
Rising
Silent moving image: 03:06
Rising responds to the theme of the wild sea as a metaphor for our recent uncertain times. Footage of the water surface, above and below the sea, are combined to generate a sense of disorientation, representative of confusions surrounding the pandemic and the desire find a way out.
Director: Emily Beaney
Screening of Rising at ArtWalk Porty's outdoor film festival 'All at Sea'
October 2020, Edinburgh.
Breaking the Fall
A trilogy of experimental documentaries: Illness and the everyday
Breaking the Fall: Care and Control
04:03
Mother - daughter collaboration 2/3: exploring the delicate balance between care and control within a relationship entangled by disability.
Director: Emily Beaney
Collaborator: Cherrie Beaney
Music: Alabaster dePlume
Project developed from research supported by Stellar Quines and Birds of Paradise
Breaking the Fall: Preservation
04:32
Mother - daughter collaboration 3/3: observations on ageing, anxieties and shifting relationships.
Director: Emily Beaney
Collaborator: Cherrie Beaney
Breaking the Fall: Her Eye
02:01
Mother - daughter collaboration 1/3: a phenomenological study of my mother's experiences of sight-loss due to Glaucoma.
Director: Emily Beaney
Collaborator: Cherrie Beaney
Speculations
Experimental documentary: 03:30
Immersive filmmaking focusing on sensory experience on screen. Research focused on the intersection between film and medicine, attempting to portray a phenomenological experience of epilepsy.
Director: Emily Beaney
Supervisor: Amy Hardie
Music: Jon Hopkins