Spirit Of The Dead is a ten minute short filmed on location in Tahiti and edited in Edinburgh. It incorporates narrative excerpts from my book, which is used as a voice-over that threads the lush imagery of the island together. The actress who plays Teha’amana is the spitting image of the girl in Gauguin’s painting The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch, his first native child-wife. The film has been screened at the 11th Pune Short Film Festival and the 5th Folklore International Film Festival, amongst others.

You can also view some of the other films I’ve made on my vimeo page. They are:

Broken Eternity which was funded by Film Four and the BFI and produced by B3 Media.

Black Leaves is pilot for a longer short, filmed by long-time collaborator Marcus Waterloo, who died in 2016.

Gauguin’s Lover was made in 2010 and this is where I first experimented with using my narrative fiction writing as a voice-over to images of Teha’amana walking through a landscape far removed from ours. It was made as part of FeatureLab, a script development programme run by B3 Media and Film Four.