“The forest runs around the hunting dog.” — Dogen
Losing one’s way in a forest, on a mountain, by the sea, in a city…
Metaphors for the impossibility of experience, and the irretrievability of memory.
Stories by Pierre Deruisseau, Donya Feki, Murielle Magellan, Olivier Magis, Karim Olabi, Annick Vellut, Olivier Vuylsteke, and Claudine Welter.
Recorded and translated [...]
We wanted to go to Zbuba.
But first we had to get to Zbabde.
Two young filmmakers are trying to visit a village near Jenin in the West Bank. But when they reach the Hamra checkpoint in the Jordan valley, the Israeli army refuses to let them pass.
The advice of a young soldier who is nostalgic for [...]
Boy meets washing machine.
Boy loses washing machine.
Boy gets (new) washing machine.
Starring Scali Delpeyrat, with James Harris
and the voice of Ben Pearson
And featuring both the music and the physical presence of Them Amazing Babies
Hard on the heels of shooting Bewick’s Mambo, I got the chance to make a Digital [...]
Late one night, Adam and Eve are alone in the library, when suddenly, the plants and animals pictured in the books around them start to come alive…
Starring Scali Delpeyrat, Lou Wenzel and James Harris
Best short fiction on an ecological theme, Malescorto International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2009
Best short film, CinemaJAZZ section, Kansas City [...]
An experimental round dance in three movements, composed using footage of trees taken in Oxford in spring 2001. My first ever roll of Kodachrome 40. A homage to the life-in-work of Stan Brakhage.
To be projected silent, or as a visual theme for musical improvisation.
2007, 5 minutes, Super8/DV, 4:3, silent.
My first outing with my newly acquired [...]
A man finds a stone outside his house. He picks it up – with unexpected consequences…
Featuring Scali Delpeyrat as The Breather
Winner, Northern Film and Media Sound and Vision Award, 2007
Shortlisted, Depict! 07
Breather was my first attempt at directing fiction. It was inspired by memories of Buster Keaton, and of my mispent youth [...]
A portrait of the stresses and strains imposed on Palestinian society by Israel’s almost total control over access to water and sewage facilities in the West Bank, told in the words of ordinary people. A compelling picture of the impact of military occupation on everyday life.
A documentary film by Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon.
In 2003, [...]
“In a world saturated with ephemeral TV images and news reports, Two thousand walls (a song for Jayyous) adopts a distinctive and sensitive approach, which avoids the twin traps of aestheticisation and voyeurism. The way in which it brings together different voices and languages within the same confined, interiorised space, demonstrates what an experimental approach [...]
Film diary of an anti-GM direct action, shot in Super 8 and told through the words and memories of the people who took part in it.
In September 2002, I attended the inaugural genespotting action organised in Belgium by the CAGE (Collectif d’Action GénEthique). I wasn’t sure what to expect — I had been present at [...]
Peter Snowdon was born in Northumberland, England, in 1964.
He has lived and worked as teacher, publisher, bureaucrat, translator, poet, journalist, political activist, jazz pianist, and farm labourer in France, Egypt, India and Belgium.
He established Gourna Films in 2000 to explore his interest in the kind of lightweight independent documentary filmmaking that was being made possible [...]
