Rebecca Palmer
Rebecca is an actor, writer, body worker and filmmaker. She spent her childhood in the woodlands and riverbanks of the Borders and then ran to the city. Rebecca is drawn towards liminal characters and stories that explore what seduce and splinter us. As an actor her work includes Department Q, Summer in the Shade, The Thing That Ate The Birds, This Filthy Earth, Intimacy, Comfortably Numb and Flytopia. As a filmmaker she co-directed and created Earthing Project, Dead Wood, wrote and directed the short film Flori and co-directed, wrote and featured in the teaser film Maid, Mother, Crone.
Rebecca’s relationship with the natural landscape intrinsically informs and evolves her work. She is currently co-developing the feature length Earthing film, is co-writing the collaborative feature Maid Mother Crone as an Earthing, Scottish/Norwegian co-production. Rebecca is also developing an Inside/Outside Rest as Resistance workshop and is researching an experimental movement piece with Sama Falsian exploring spiritual transmission in our technological age.
Morag McKinnon
Morag is an award winning Scottish writer and film director based in Edinburgh. She won Scottish BAFTAs for directing Donkeys, co-directing the feature documentary I Am Breathing and a BAFTA and sixteen international awards for her short film Home. Morag also received another BAFTA as one of two directors on the acclaimed television series Buried.
Morag teaches on the Kinoeyes course at Napier University and at Edinburgh College of Art. She has several feature and documentary projects in development, including When Fish Begin to Crawl, with award winning composer and producer Jim Sutherland.
Morag's global perspective derives from her birth and her early upbringing in Singapore and Indonesia. This perspective has informed her life-long passion for science, indigenous wisdom, and environmental issues. Her work with Earthing Project is an intrinsic part of that continually evolving journey.
Nadia Dermatopoulou
Nadia is a producer and visual artist hovering between audio visual interactive installations and filmmaking. She has showcased her work in galleries and film festivals internationally. Most recently, she completed contributed a video to Roger and Brian Eno's album Mixing Colours played during their international tour. Nadia recently graduated from the National Film & Television School production course funded by Creative Scotland. Now she is in the development stage of her debut fiction short film.
Matthew Shaw
Matthew is an artist, author, composer and producer.
Atmosphere of Mona, a book of poetry and photography was published by Annwyn House in 2020. In 2021 Matthew worked with Shirley Collins & Brian Catling on Crowlink. An EP was released in July 2021 by Domino Recordings. The Crowlink audio installation premiered at the Barbican followed by a week at Charleston house in Sussex.
“Shaw conjures the ghostly afterimage of ritual song forms and reassembles them as lucid, revenant forms animating particular landscapes, as if performing some kind of historico-cultural sleight of hand” David Keenan
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