Movies: Duncan Cowles

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....

What stops a father and son from being able to talk? As far back as I can remember, my dad and I haven't been able to communicate to each other very well. I know hardly anything about him, except that he likes jazz music and fiddling with old radios ...

Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, mundane and funny side of being trapped inside your own head as an out of work, self-employed freelancer....

Contrasting artistic visions, misplaced confidence and blatant ignorance collide on the backdrop of an increasingly fragile and divided world. Two stubborn Scottish filmmakers struggle to make a short film together in the Austrian Alps....

Part road trip, part coming-of-middle-age tale, Cowles’ laconic humour and frank approach to his subject proves effective in exploring aspects of masculinity that all too often are little discussed....

Fatigue expressed in an endless sea of content....

Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focussing on something smaller....

A short character portrait of Stuart Murray, a Glaswegian Postman and Artist...

Unable to move on from the death of his granny, a filmmaker desperately searches for the right film idea that will finally allow him to let go…...

Living at home when you're twenty-one has it's downsides......

The pressures of having to make an amazing film for TED sent this deadpan, deep-voiced, award-winning filmmaker into a crippling spiral of self-doubt and comic indecision....

That's Your Lot - A very short film about nothing by Duncan Cowles made in an afternoon in late 2023 (largely with the purpose of testing a new camera.)...

This film aims to capture the stories of the aging Isabella, but also captures her condition and loss of cohesiveness as she loses herself into dementia and Parkinson's. It is also a very personal film since the subject is the grandmother of one of t...

What's it like to feel no emotion?...

Through distant observation of people walking on desire lines, a filmmaker notices a pattern in peoples tendency to cut corners, and reflects on what this might mean for the future of our planet. Desire Lines are the official name given to the unoffi...

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the Moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years later, when the people of a tiny Scottish town stepped in, that he finally got home. Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites is a film about the day one of t...

Making a film when you're 87 is less than convenient. Examine the difficulties of communication between the generations, as Tweedie is encouraged to see the world differently through the lens of his grandson....