The Silence of the Heart Official Selection at Blow Up Film Festival

Sean Martin's film The Silence of the Heart is an Official Selection at Chicago's Blow Up International Festival of Art House Cinema.

Koan III Screens at Hidden Door Festival

Sean Martin's Koan III will screen at the Hidden Door Festival in Edinburgh on 31 May at 1900. See here for more details.

Two World Premieres at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival This Week

Two of my (Sean) films will premiere at the Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival this week. In the main programme will be Koan III, screening on Saturday 16th April at 1445

'It's the beginning of a new age' - The Velvet Underground. 

And in the screening room upstairs, The Hidden Castle will receive its first screening. These screenings repeat every day, and The Hidden Castle will screen first, on Thursday 14th April at noon.

More details about the festival can be found here. 

Sean Martin introduces All Quiet on the Western Front

Sean Martin will be introducing a screening of Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) at the Scottish Parliament on Saturday 5 March 2016. The film starts at 1300, with a discussion afterwards. Sean will be in conversation with Ann-Christin Simke from Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, and Professor Stephan Malinowski, Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh.

Three New Films

Three new short films by Sean Martin are included in the exhibition Shifting Images, which opened at the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre, and at the Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby, on 8th September 2015. The films are Did I Dream You, Mosaic and Platinum, and were made in collaboration with composer David Power. The exhibition marks Sean's and David's second project together after Vestiges, shown in York in February 2015. Shifting Images runs until 6 March 2016.