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Tag: Scotland Street

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 11, 2025September 11, 2025

Evidence is always partial

To play this short film please click here. Credits: Hilary Mantel, Jorge Luis Borges, Petula Clark, Crowded House and James Boyd [14 Scotland Street]

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Progress hardly broke its stride, This is Not yesterdayTags: Bumpa Dai, David Tobias Williams, Edinburgh, Evidence Based Medicine, Hilary Mantel, Omphalos films, over-certainty, Scotland Street, uncertainty
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 22, 2025

As soon as we die

This film is for Dai. Credits: Hilary Mantel, Jorge Luis Borges, Petula Clark, Crowded House and James Boyd [14 Scotland Street]

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: Bumpa Dai, David Tobias Williams, Edinburgh, Hilary Mantel, Omphalos films, Scotland Street
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 7, 2024November 14, 2024

Heading Due North

Three short films of an old railway tunnel in the centre of Edinburgh: Due North [in its ending: Scotland Street Station]: Smash out into the sunshine [in its ending: Scotland … Continue reading Heading Due North

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Edinburgh, Omphalos films, railway, Scotland Street, Tunnel
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 10, 2024November 17, 2024

A schoolboy’s diary for 1850

To play this short film please click here Music credits: Always Summer – Brideshead Revisited Johnnie – The Lost Prince Collapsing Time – Dexter Britain Downtown – Crowded House, piano … Continue reading A schoolboy’s diary for 1850

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Alexander McCall Smith, diaries, Edinburgh, Scotland Street
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 19, 2024November 18, 2024

Downtown

This film is for Dai. Credits: Hilary Mantel, Jorge Luis Borges, Petula Clark, Crowded House and James Boyd [14 Scotland Street]

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: Bumpa Dai, David Tobias Williams, Edinburgh, Hilary Mantel, Omphalos films, Scotland Street
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 7, 2022November 24, 2024

Lost in a dark tunnel

Three short films of an old railway tunnel in the centre of Edinburgh: Due North [in its ending: Scotland Street Station]: Smash out into the sunshine [in its ending: Scotland … Continue reading Lost in a dark tunnel

Categories: Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: Edinburgh, Omphalos films, Peter Scott-Gordon, Rebel antiquary, Scotland Street, Tunnel
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 12, 2021November 25, 2024

[in its ending] Scotland Street Station

Three short films of an old railway tunnel in the centre of Edinburgh: Due North [in its ending: Scotland Street Station]: Smash out into the sunshine [in its ending: Scotland … Continue reading [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: Edinburgh, Omphalos films, Scotland Street, Tunnel
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 25, 2021November 13, 2025

Patrick’s garden

Patrick Neill, [1776-1851],  was one of Edinburgh’s ‘Modern Athenians’. Today his name is hardly known. His tombstone in Warriston records that he was ‘distinguished for Literature, Science, Patriotism, Benevolence, and … Continue reading Patrick’s garden

Categories: Architecture, gardens, ScotlandTags: Edinburgh, gardener, Lad o' pairts, Printmakers, Scotland Street, tombstone

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