Ruth Lingford
Directing
Known For

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Sweetgrass

A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
Feral
Interviewees describe the experience of orgasm in an animated investigation on sexual climax.
Little Deaths

Black-and-white, etched-wood animation tale about the Grim Reaper. In a remote forest, Death in disguise calls on a woman and her baby daughter.
Death and the Mother

Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they cross the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, tragedies, and mysteries of being Renee.
Reneepoptosis

A dream-inspired stream-of-consciousness download charting the trace infection lines Trump’s presence provokes in the minds of many.
Trump Dreams
A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.
Pleasures of War
A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.
The Old Fools

A short documentary animation about the European Witch Trials
Hammer of the Witches

Short animation by Shynola & Ruth Lingford
An Eye for an Eye
A view from inside the isolation and perceptual distortion of senile dementia.
Crumble

Ruth Lingford's interpretation of women's everlasting burden of fertility.
Baggage

A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumescence.