NEWS
- Flashbulb is to be screened at the 2014 Ickle Film Fest in Dundee, programme TBD
- In-depth write up of An Evening With David Millar at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, which covered David Millar Project
- Iboga Nights wins Best UK Film at Open City Docs - I was the animator on the film, replicating the Iboga drug trip
- A short drama I edited, Out of the Ash, is to screen at 2014 Edinburgh Film Festival in the 'Heart of the Matter' shorts bloc
- Swallow, for which I was cinematographer and visual effects artist, plays at Open City Docs Fest as part of the Scottish Documentary Showcase, Sunday 22nd of June @ Birkbeck Cinema. It also received a write-up by Indy Week after playing at Full Frame 2014
Kieran Gosney | Filmmaker-Editor-Photographer |
SELECTED FILM WORK
Flashbulb - Dir. Kieran Gosney
Short Drama
Role: Writer/Director
Winner of the 2012 Royal Television Society of Scotland
Student Award for Best Undergraduate Fiction
http://www.allmediascotland.com/broadcasting/45425/45425/
Obsessed with recreating a happy memory from childhood, Daniel, a reclusive young man, builds an elaborate machine to help him regress to a past where he was more content. However, troubling memories of his estranged alcoholic father prevent him from happily dwelling in his ideal memories.
A quiet film that communicates its story with a strong visual and aural aesthetic. Intricate production design and imaginative cinematography immerse the viewer in the cloistered world of a damaged individual. This is miniature magical realism with an emphasis on the painfully real.
Screenings:
3rd TIS Fest (Teen International Shorts Festival)
2014 Ickle Film Fest
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 11 min
Director: Kieran Gosney
Producer: Kestrel Cheswick
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/40030006
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2720704/
Winner of the 2012 Royal Television Society of Scotland
Student Award for Best Undergraduate Fiction
http://www.allmediascotland.com/broadcasting/45425/45425/
Obsessed with recreating a happy memory from childhood, Daniel, a reclusive young man, builds an elaborate machine to help him regress to a past where he was more content. However, troubling memories of his estranged alcoholic father prevent him from happily dwelling in his ideal memories.
A quiet film that communicates its story with a strong visual and aural aesthetic. Intricate production design and imaginative cinematography immerse the viewer in the cloistered world of a damaged individual. This is miniature magical realism with an emphasis on the painfully real.
Screenings:
3rd TIS Fest (Teen International Shorts Festival)
2014 Ickle Film Fest
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 11 min
Director: Kieran Gosney
Producer: Kestrel Cheswick
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/40030006
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2720704/
Summer Rain - Dir. Joana Gil-Rico
Short Drama
Role: Editor
‘Summer Rain’ is a story about human connections, about discovering beauty and finding the strength to overcome a bad situation. It captures a moment in the life of a young man trapped in a loop of obsessions and routines that help him protect himself from getting hurt.
The film tells the story of LEON, a 30 year old writer with an overcast personality, who doesn’t have any interest in the people that surround him. He somehow fears them and envies their freedom.
Leon knows there is something wrong with him. He is obsessed with the number four and needs to do four repetitions in his day-by-day activities. He also an insomniac caused by his loneliness and overthinking. So, he constantly seeks freedom- through exercise and a very strict routine. With the unexpected arrival of his flatmate’s friend ADA, a luminous young woman, full of energy and experience, Leon will wonder about the possibility of a different life for himself. However, she will leave to another country the next morning. Will Leon be able to keep this hope once Ada is gone?
Year of Production: 2014
Duration: 19 mins
Director: Joana Gil-Rico
Production Company: December Works
Produced by: Indeana Underhill
‘Summer Rain’ is a story about human connections, about discovering beauty and finding the strength to overcome a bad situation. It captures a moment in the life of a young man trapped in a loop of obsessions and routines that help him protect himself from getting hurt.
The film tells the story of LEON, a 30 year old writer with an overcast personality, who doesn’t have any interest in the people that surround him. He somehow fears them and envies their freedom.
Leon knows there is something wrong with him. He is obsessed with the number four and needs to do four repetitions in his day-by-day activities. He also an insomniac caused by his loneliness and overthinking. So, he constantly seeks freedom- through exercise and a very strict routine. With the unexpected arrival of his flatmate’s friend ADA, a luminous young woman, full of energy and experience, Leon will wonder about the possibility of a different life for himself. However, she will leave to another country the next morning. Will Leon be able to keep this hope once Ada is gone?
Year of Production: 2014
Duration: 19 mins
Director: Joana Gil-Rico
Production Company: December Works
Produced by: Indeana Underhill
Out of the Ash - Dir. Sandy Garfunkel
Short Drama
Role: Editor
After being robbed at gunpoint, Foday turns the tables on his mugger but in trying to teach the attacker a lesson, ends up confronting his own devastating memories of a childhood lost.
Screenings:
10th Annual Big Apple Film Festival
Poverty Cure Film Festival 2014
Official Selection of Long Island International Film Expo 2014
Emerge Film Festival 2014
Sanford International Film Festival 2014
Student International Film Festival 2014
Awards and Nominations:
Katra Film Series - Audience Award
Traildance Film Festival - Best Short Drama Nomination
BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award 2014 - Best Sound Design (Paul Kowalski)
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 14 mins
Director: Sandy Garfunkel
Produced by: Emily Charlton & David Jack
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/74398104
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3114868/
After being robbed at gunpoint, Foday turns the tables on his mugger but in trying to teach the attacker a lesson, ends up confronting his own devastating memories of a childhood lost.
Screenings:
10th Annual Big Apple Film Festival
Poverty Cure Film Festival 2014
Official Selection of Long Island International Film Expo 2014
Emerge Film Festival 2014
Sanford International Film Festival 2014
Student International Film Festival 2014
Awards and Nominations:
Katra Film Series - Audience Award
Traildance Film Festival - Best Short Drama Nomination
BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award 2014 - Best Sound Design (Paul Kowalski)
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 14 mins
Director: Sandy Garfunkel
Produced by: Emily Charlton & David Jack
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/74398104
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3114868/
Swallow - dir. Genevieve Bicknell
Short Documentary
Role: Cinematographer and Visual Effects
Screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/2013/shorts-bridging-the-gap
Food holds great power. It harms as well as heals. It stores memories. It expresses resentment, defiance, and love. Wullie is the cook in a mental health respite house, and as he cooks for his guests, their stories of food, and its power, unfold.
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 8 min
Director: Genevieve Bicknell
Producer: Rosie Ellison
Trailer: http://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/swallow/
Screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/2013/shorts-bridging-the-gap
Food holds great power. It harms as well as heals. It stores memories. It expresses resentment, defiance, and love. Wullie is the cook in a mental health respite house, and as he cooks for his guests, their stories of food, and its power, unfold.
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 8 min
Director: Genevieve Bicknell
Producer: Rosie Ellison
Trailer: http://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/swallow/
Iboga Nights - Dir. David Graham Scott
Feature Documentary
Role: Animator
Winner of Best UK Film at Open City Docs 2014
Can an African psychedelic plant seriously alleviate drug withdrawal? There are a growing number of desperate drug addicts seeking to end their addiction with a powerful psychedelic used for centuries by African witchdoctors. Just how effective is this treatment option and are there any dangers involved?
Iboga Nights will be a follow-up feature documentary to the BBC film made by David Graham Scott in 2004, called Detox or Die. (The film is available to watch at this link: vimeo.com/25291673)
Screenings:
Open City Docs 2014
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 90 mins
Director: David Graham Scott
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3510950/
Winner of Best UK Film at Open City Docs 2014
Can an African psychedelic plant seriously alleviate drug withdrawal? There are a growing number of desperate drug addicts seeking to end their addiction with a powerful psychedelic used for centuries by African witchdoctors. Just how effective is this treatment option and are there any dangers involved?
Iboga Nights will be a follow-up feature documentary to the BBC film made by David Graham Scott in 2004, called Detox or Die. (The film is available to watch at this link: vimeo.com/25291673)
Screenings:
Open City Docs 2014
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 90 mins
Director: David Graham Scott
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3510950/
I Can't Be Kaspar? - Dir. Joshua Loftin
Feature Drama
Role: Sound
Kaspar is in a state of misery and panic and there seems to be nothing to save him. He was brought up in a highly religious family and disregards his beliefs when he leaves home. We meet Kaspar some years later while he's going through the process of losing his girlfriend. The grief and guilt he suffers from while still loving her, yet knowing it is falling apart tears him from the inside out through a sensitive heart and over thinking. In his most manic state of loss he turns to the thought of God and the calming words of the Bible from his unconfused childhood. We follow Kaspar intimately throughout this nightmarish state over a two day span through his encounters with friends/family and strangers in the night in where he confronts his system of beliefs and tries to find redemption out of what he sees in a world where the seen has lost its significance.
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 90 mins
Director: Joshua Loftin
Producers: Joshua Loftin, Alan Baker & Pete Le May
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/39543187
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2255802/
Kaspar is in a state of misery and panic and there seems to be nothing to save him. He was brought up in a highly religious family and disregards his beliefs when he leaves home. We meet Kaspar some years later while he's going through the process of losing his girlfriend. The grief and guilt he suffers from while still loving her, yet knowing it is falling apart tears him from the inside out through a sensitive heart and over thinking. In his most manic state of loss he turns to the thought of God and the calming words of the Bible from his unconfused childhood. We follow Kaspar intimately throughout this nightmarish state over a two day span through his encounters with friends/family and strangers in the night in where he confronts his system of beliefs and tries to find redemption out of what he sees in a world where the seen has lost its significance.
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 90 mins
Director: Joshua Loftin
Producers: Joshua Loftin, Alan Baker & Pete Le May
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/39543187
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2255802/
Bandera - Dir. Kieran Gosney
Short Documentary
Role: Directed, Shot and Edited
On the 11th of September 1973 the military junta of Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile. This bloody coup forced many Chileans to flee their homeland in order to survive. Carlos was one of those refugees, who, over the course of the next year, made his way to Britain to make a new life for himself. Although Carlos escaped, he was forced to leave his family behind and many of his friends did not survive. Those supporters of Allende who would not, or could not, escape were rounded up and held in the National Stadium, whereupon many were tortured and killed. These memories have deeply affected how Carlos views his homeland, but he found that changed when he took his son to see Chile play England at football in 1998, eight years after Pinochet had stepped down. With Chile’s victory, Carlos was filled with a national passion and held the Chilean flag for the first time in almost three decades, confronting the memories of a time when a football stadium meant torture or death.
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 5 mins
Director: Kieran Gosney
On the 11th of September 1973 the military junta of Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile. This bloody coup forced many Chileans to flee their homeland in order to survive. Carlos was one of those refugees, who, over the course of the next year, made his way to Britain to make a new life for himself. Although Carlos escaped, he was forced to leave his family behind and many of his friends did not survive. Those supporters of Allende who would not, or could not, escape were rounded up and held in the National Stadium, whereupon many were tortured and killed. These memories have deeply affected how Carlos views his homeland, but he found that changed when he took his son to see Chile play England at football in 1998, eight years after Pinochet had stepped down. With Chile’s victory, Carlos was filled with a national passion and held the Chilean flag for the first time in almost three decades, confronting the memories of a time when a football stadium meant torture or death.
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 5 mins
Director: Kieran Gosney
Momo - Dir. Ben McKinstrie
Short Drama
Role: Editor
Nominated for 2012 Creative Scotland Student Media Award
http://www.creativeloop.org/film-television-awards-2012/
When Steve was 10 years old, he had an imaginary girlfriend called Momo. Then he discovered real girls. Now in his late 20's, Steve and settling in with his uninspiring girlfriend. Forced to take extreme action, Steve's subconscious sets Momo free from his head and into actual existence to make him confront his own identity.
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 10 mins
Director: Ben McKinstrie
Producer: Alice McKinstrie
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/24466875
Nominated for 2012 Creative Scotland Student Media Award
http://www.creativeloop.org/film-television-awards-2012/
When Steve was 10 years old, he had an imaginary girlfriend called Momo. Then he discovered real girls. Now in his late 20's, Steve and settling in with his uninspiring girlfriend. Forced to take extreme action, Steve's subconscious sets Momo free from his head and into actual existence to make him confront his own identity.
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 10 mins
Director: Ben McKinstrie
Producer: Alice McKinstrie
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/24466875
