Wheesht to your Omphaloi!
I made this film when we were a young family: To play this short film please click here or on the image above.
Category: Omphalos films
I have made over 1600 short films. These films tend to be short and cover a range of subjects. The idea generally behind my films is that they should have no immediate separation into ‘two cultures’: science and humanities.
A further intention is that only by really knowing the filmmaker and following his life and narrative will you get closer to understanding some of the films. In this I intend to make the point that science too must remember the complexity of human life.
Omphalos is another name for our tummy-button, where we were once joined to our mother.
Up in the clouds
Out-shots from one of my favourite short archive clips: To play a short film, called Track + Field, please click here Music credit: Track and Field by JJerome87
a televisual poem
A ‘televisual poem‘ that asks: can you remember what it is like to see the world from a child’s point of view? To play this televisual poem please click here … Continue reading a televisual poem
Union Corner
This short film shares the story of the end of Union Corner, Glasgow, March 2026. It was once the celebrated Department Store of R. W. Forsyth: To play this short … Continue reading Union Corner
Faintly heard
A visual representation of a passage of the 2026 BBC Prog Rock Proms
I have never claimed to be a revolutionary
To play this short film please click here or on the image above, Music credit: ‘On Your Own Again’ by Scott Walker
‘Fight to keep a playpark’
10 August 1967, Glasgow Daily Record: Image from Trove archive: The Red Road Development:
coronas and supernovas of colour
To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: I’m a Cuckoo by Belle and Sebastian [opening voice, Stuart Murdoch at Kelvingrove Bandstand, 27 … Continue reading coronas and supernovas of colour