Movies: Steven McNicoll

'The Weepers' is a 30-minute short film that playfully explores Scotland's relationship with the Gothic horror genre. Drawing on a variety of cultural reference points, including Scottish myth, haunted house movies and Doctor Johnson’s trip to the Heb...

Feed Me is a larger than life fairy tale, part TV talent show, part thriller, video game in which Maclean plays all the parts...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin is hurtling through space. Down below, 7-year-old Billy Wilson keeps watching the skies, itching for an encounter with an alien being. When he discovers a mysterious stranger in a house nearby, events take a sinister t...

Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of po...

Frantic knockabout tragedy ensues when Bobo is sent to clown prison for committing a daring but silly crime. Can he escape in time to prevent his family from bringing shame on all clowndom?...

Rev IM Jolly at the award ceremony...

Sophie goes on a killing spree in a candy-coloured world....

During WWII unusual experiments take place in a secret military bunker....

Video essay about the 1928 film 'The Man Who Laughs'....