The Montrose Year Book
I made this film for my wee sister Gillian. It is based on the wonderful photographs that Rev James Hay of Montrose took of his young family (c1905) Music Credit: … Continue reading The Montrose Year Book
Tag: memory
from End to End
This short artistic film is about a gardener, who I call ‘the gentle gardener’. This Victorian gardener carried the same name as me. He died in 1885 aged 57 years: … Continue reading from End to End
Craigroy [do you think memories are made of atoms too?]
Last week I visited Craigroy on the Altyre Estate. My great-great-grandparents, John Gordon and Euphemia Ferguson, raised their family here before moving to Cothall. More than 30 years ago my … Continue reading Craigroy [do you think memories are made of atoms too?]
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sixty years since they were buried in the graveyard sixty years since they were loved.
half-tingle, half-tickle
My mother provided wonderful birthday parties for all her children. Such that I still half-tingle and half-tickle with the memory of childhood birthday parties.
Girgenti: footnotes and forget-me-nots
Introducing Girgenti At Girgenti you can still hear two girls sing. Girgenti followed Paestum From Thimble Row to Discoveries:
Discoveries at Gigenti
This is my final film on Girgenti:
Canto One
This is from life, I was there: exploring secrets hidden behind shapes, colours and scents – the smell of that philadelphus, god almighty! In Canto One I lived on, flew … Continue reading Canto One
Test Card F
Those of a certain age are likely to recall this BBC2 Test Card
I keep having to remind myself
that I will never be understood or remembered as the peter that I am still becoming.
Girgenti followed Paestum
It might have been the other way around: Paestum may have followed Girgenti. Nabokov once said that he “did not believe in time”. What follows is Girgenti [in the form … Continue reading Girgenti followed Paestum
Girgenti
Girgenti followed Paestum in a blue sky summer that was not little. Beneath this sky two girls sang. It was a beautiful summer.