Seán Martin

Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas and the Secret History of Cinema

Seán Martin, Louise Milne

Koan IV

Seán Martin

In Seán Martin's "Koan IV", an opening provocation suggests that the things we see continually hide the things we'd like to see. What we see after this is mist in a Scottish landscape. Martin's patient, enigmatic film contemplates a popular image of romance and intrigue attributed to a rural identity, alluding to what is hidden, what is real and what does not exist.

Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey

Seán Martin, Louise Milne

Vadim Yusov, Olga Surkova

This 2018 documentary by filmmakers Louise Milne and Seán Martin features interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, Tarkovsky personal assistant Olga Surkova, film critic Dmitri Salynsky, and Tarkovsky scholar Vida T. Johnson.

The Dream in the Mirror

Seán Martin, Louise Milne

Aleksandr Gordon, Kitty Hunter-Blair

A documentary which features interviews with collaborators and family members of director Andrei Tarkovsky's, along with scholars of his work. Special attention is paid to his 1975 film "Mirror."

Koan V

Seán Martin

Seán Martin’s "Koan V" meditates on reeds filmed in close-up on the Scottish isle of Jura. With an accompanying quotation from Rebecca Solnit, an intersecting soundscape of subways, birds, folk musicians and chatter recorded in Prague suggests new possibilities between disparate sounds and images.

Charlie Chaplin Lived Here

Seán Martin, Louise Milne

In 1960s London, Bill Douglas and Charlie Chaplin nearly meet…