Dalmatian Films

19/05/2025

Recomposing Earth, our documentary about Erland Cooper's buried album on the Orkney Islands, has taken home the award for Best Documentary Short at Unrestricted View Film Festival. A huge thank you to Unrestricted View and this year's jury – the film has now qualified for the British Independent Film Awards 2025. 🏆

28/03/2025

Very exciting news this morning that RECOMPOSING EARTH has been officially selected for Unrestricted View Film Festival. Extra special as it has also now qualified us for the 💥 British Independent Film Awards 💥.

For those in London, the film will be screening at the legendary Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington on Friday 2nd May – tickets available now:
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/unrestricted-view-film-festival-2025-day-five-2nd-may-hen-chickens-theatre/

The Hen & Chickens Theatre
Documentary Shorts Programme 2
Friday 2nd May // 8:30PM

A big thanks to Unrestricted View Film Festival and everyone who has supported our little doc so far on its festival run.

www.dalmatianfilms.com

10/02/2025

RECOMPOSING EARTH is back in the States this month, screening in competition at the mighty Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana – the largest non-fiction film festival in the American West. The film will be closing the Shorts Block 8 programme on Monday 17th February at the Missoula Community Theatre.

We're very grateful to have also been shortlisted for TWO The Shark Awards last month, for Best Documentary Short and Christian Cargill for Best Cinematography.

https://www.dalmatianfilms.com/recomposing-earth

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29/01/2025

We're thrilled to share the news that our film RECOMPOSING EARTH has just qualified for the Academy® Awards 2026, after winning 🏆 Best Documentary Short 🏆 at Flickerfest Film Festival in Sydney.

A huge thank you to the Jury and for having us Australia 🇳🇿

Our festival journey continues this year after a brilliant sold out screening last week at British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin. More announcements soon on where our film will be playing next.

The documentary was made possible with the collaboration and talents of the below:

Directed, Produced & Cinematography by Christian Cargill
Produced by John Bannister
Edited by Kevin Corry
Edit Produced by Daniel Breheny at The Assembly Rooms
Music by Erland Cooper
Colour by Max Ferguson-Hook
Sound Design & Mix by Guy Chase
Sound by Christian Cargill
Title Design by Jon Evans
Special Thanks to Mercury KX & Decca Records
Featuring Erland Cooper, Paul Weller, Marta Salogni, Ian Rankin, Dan & Victoria Rhodes, Elizabeth Alker, Dr. Jacob Downs & Tom Lewis

A Dalmatian Films Production

www.dalmatianfilms.com

09/01/2025

Kicking off 2025 with our first festival announcement that RECOMPOSING EARTH will be heading to BERLIN this month to screen at the wunderbar . The film will be opening the documentary programme on Friday 24th January at Sputnik Kino alongside four brilliant films, followed by a Director's Q&A. Tickets on sale now. 🇧🇪

22/11/2024

RECOMPOSING EARTH has been longlisted for BEST SCORE at the The British Short Film Awards. Huge congratulations to our film's composer and subject, the Scottish enigma Erland Cooper, whose buried tape also made Number 1 on the Official UK Classical Albums Chart last month. 🪶

https://thebritishshortfilmawards.co.uk/longlist-2024

06/11/2024

Recomposing Earth will be following in the footsteps of Withnail & I this weekend, as it will be screening in the heart of Cumbria at the wonderful Aerial Festival.

Saturday 9th November 3PM, Zeffirellis Main Screen.

Tickets Here:
https://www.zeffirellis.com/film/orkney-films

For those not venturing to the Lake District, the film will also be playing in London this Friday 7PM at Soho's Century Club, opening Doc'n Roll Films Shorts Night.

Tickets Here:
https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/recomposing-earth/

31/10/2024

'Recomposing Earth' is heading to snowy Estonia next month as part of PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. For those in Tallinn, the film will be playing in the 'Echoes of Expression' Documentary programme on Tuesday 19th November. 🌱

https://shorts.poff.ee/en/film/echoes-of-expression-live-action-documentaries-1/

22/10/2024

After taking home the award for Best Documentary at Bolton Film Festival last week, we're very excited to announce Recomposing Earth has been selected for this year's legendary Doc'n Roll Films Festival on 8th November in London. To celebrate, we've unearthed our buried official trailer to share with you all.

Tickets for our Doc'n Roll screening + Director Q&A are out now via the link:
https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/recomposing-earth/

https://youtu.be/pBPQaL7Kxbk?si=ssJrqGp-yuKAcrUl

What happens when an artist risks losing the only recording of their album, by burying it in the earth in the name of art. Recomposing Earth tells this uniqu...

01/10/2024

A special one. Thank you to everyone who made it down to our preview screening of 'Recomposing Earth' last week. An extra big thanks to maestro on the mic George Service and to Rough Trade East for hosting us.

The film will be screening at Bolton Film Festival this week followed by a director Q&A. Wednesday 2nd October 5PM, just after our friend Dylan Southern's Film4 Director In Conversation at 3:30PM.

📸 Lewis Recordings

20/09/2024

Ahead of its festival run, we'll be doing an intimate preview screening of our film 'Recomposing Earth' next Thursday at London's Rough Trade East alongside a Q&A with subject Erland Cooper and director Christian Cargill. The preview is limited - grab yourself a ticket below:

https://dice.fm/event/929px7-erland-cooper-recomposing-earth-screening-qa-signing-26th-sep-rough-trade-east-london-tickets

01/05/2024

Announcing today with The BFI x Doc Society, our next documentary ‘WOLF' (wt). A defining artist of his generation, Patrick Wolf rose to fame in the 2000s before a sudden disappearance from music. Part love letter to his newfound home by the sea, the forty minute film blends present-day with a rich collection of personal archive, chronicling a journey of hope that has seen Patrick overcome immense personal battles in his acclaimed return to music.

It's been a privilege to get to know Patrick and document his story over the last year. Like Heart Valley, we started shooting the project with discussions, ideas and crucially no financing. To be making the film today with The BFI Doc Society, who believed in the vision and were willing to back it with National Lottery funding, is incredibly special.