Sam Firth
Directing
Biography
Sam Firth is based and makes work in the Highlands of Scotland. Her films explore the boundaries between documentary, fiction, science and art, personal experience and wider context. Her work has been described as playful and visually poetic, making the everyday cinematic. She is best known for experimental documentary filmmaking. Her first film, I.D., won awards internationally, her second film, THE WORM INSIDE, was selected by Sight & Sound in its eight highlights of the London Short Film Festival. Together they form part of a triptych exploring personal experience that culminates with the year-long project STAY THE SAME, a cross platform piece exploring our relationship with time funded by Creative Scotland and the BFI. Stay the Same has won numerous awards and is still being screened international. Sam has her own independent production company Lacunae Films (formerly Tiny Spark Productions) which she set up in order to produce her work. She has also produces community film projects has won awards for her work with children and young people.
Known For
A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her. Meanwhile a homeless man discovers some interesting items discarded in a bin.
Look Up
Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage.
Fly-Tipping
After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
UFO
How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.
The Wolf Suit
After falling in love with Mhairi online, Jon travels from the USA to Scotland to meet her. When he gets there however, things don't go quite as he imagined.
The Mug
When three siblings are reunited at their mother's vigil, Judy confronts her brothers' expectations.
My Sunshine
At his father’s funeral, a young man wrestles with his impulses with the arrival of a last minute replacement organist.
The Organist
Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.
My Dad and the Volcano
A teenage girl from a small Highland community has a crush on a local lobster fisherman and persuades him to take her out for the day.
Creeling
A teenager finds her identity through the intimacy of the photo booth.
I.D.
A short by Marko Fuchs.
Farewell Charlie Power
Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same place and same time, this experimental film-poem documents the desire to clutch and hold each moment.
Stay the Same
An intimate account of a filmmaker grappling with the mysteries of the human body, the failings of a homogenised medical system and the seductive nature of alternative medicine. A challenge to the currently prevailing idea that illness may be within our control if we try hard enough.
The Worm Inside
A mysterious paranoid man's evening turns into a nightmare when he is targeted by a pair of pedophile-hunting vigilantes.
Hunters
A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.
Up in Smoke
White smoke will explore the confused nature of teenage love and the struggle to understand the difference between real attachment and obsession, getting the audience hooked into the protagonist´s destructive and unpredictable relationship.
White Smoke
A young struggling, directionless salesman stumbles across a new-fangled religious movement while desperately trying to make a sale.
Salesmen
In Sam Firth's essay film "Field Notes On Love" a romantic relationship between a filmmaker and an ecologist interweaves explorations of categorisation, individuality, and a collective 'us'. Human and nonhuman entanglements are enticingly allegorised amidst a lush Scottish woodland.