13 August 2026
RSA200: Moving Image Programme
Trame di Luna Cultural Festival in Filignano, Molise, Italy
Culture Above and Beyond - Part Two.
(Running time: 53 minutes)
Dalziel +Scullion RSA , Source , 2007 (14:49)
Edward Summerton RSA , Dighty Burn , 2011 (5:08)
Graham Fagen RSA , Baile an Or , 2011 (8:04)
Kate Whiteford RSA (with Alex Graham) , A' Bheinn / The Mountain , 2009
(24:12)
In Source, Dalziel + Scullion RSA reveal the elemental beauty of rugged coastal nature through the eyes of a young boy. We share his wonder at the orderly communities of creatures and plants from shore to field.
In Dighty Burn, Edward Summerton RSA and Michael Windle present the story of a historic tragedy which occurred at the Dighty Burn in Angus, Scotland. A folksong on the soundtrack carries the narrative, as the camera presents beautiful images of the water and the surrounding landscape.
In Baile an Or, Graham Fagen RSA explores the sea, river and land that form Helmsdale and the Strath of Kildonan; the gold that comes from its geology, the living that is made from its land and the legacy of its past.
In A' Bheinn / The Mountain, Kate Whiteford RSA takes us on a journey through the landscape, culture, time and poetry of the western isles of Skye, Raasay, North and South Uist, Benbecula, Lewis and Harris, following the life and journeys of the poets Mary MacClean and Donald John MacDonald.
RSA Academicians' Showcase - Part One.
(Running time: 47 minutes )
Dalziel + Scullion RSA , Raven , 2025 (19 :00)
Wendy McMurdo RSA , Olympia , 2011 (5:12) (Also in Seeing and Believing)
Edward Summerton RSA , The Landscape Artist , 2021 (8:17)
Tracy Mackenna RSA , Gaps and Slippages , 2017 (4:23)
Kate Whiteford RSA , Wings of Desire , 2018 (9 :42)
The Academicians’ Showcase packages are not thematic in structure, but rather they celebrate the diversity of types of moving image works produced by Academicians. This includes works by those for whom film is central to their practice, and others by those who only occasionally use the medium. Each programme offers a viewing experience that varies from light-hearted to complex and profound.
Dalziel + Scullion RSA’s film, Raven, follows a pair of ravens over the period of a year, absorbed in the elements of their island home. These intelligent, mischievous and darkly beautiful birds appear as emissaries from the past and the future. Filmed on the island of Lewis where Dalziel and Scullion live, this work beautifully melds the physical and the spiritual.
In Olympia, Wendy McMurdo RSA observes the movements of a beautifully engineered skeletal humanoid robot, where the separate fully realised head articulates to the sounds of the aria Olympia from Offenbach’s opera Tales of Hoffmann.
In The Landscape Artist, Edward Summerton RSA performs as the landscape artist, spending eight minutes trying to start a petrol-driven lawnmower.
In Gaps and Slippages, Tracy Mackenna RSA employs a creative toolkit of self, voice, sound, drawing, writing, film in a visually fast-moving sequence that causes the viewer to flit between different types of understanding.
Kate Whiteford RSA was motivated to produce Wings of Desire when she was intrigued to learn that Emily Bronte kept - and was inspired by - a rescued injured hawk. In celebration of this, she uses aerial imagery to present the landscape from the human and from the bird's-eye perspective.
