Short film
Original Night
2026 · 29 min
A quiet, contemplative essay that drifts between nature footage and archival fragments, leaving a lingering melancholy about loss and the images we keep.
- Directed by
- Alisdair Asmussen Doyle
- Genres
- Documentary, Mystery
- Starring
- Mark Barrett, Robert Firth, Simon Weir
- Overview
- Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, eerie and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Nature, memory, death, environment
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Alisdair Asmussen Doyle
- Genres
- Documentary, Mystery
- Starring
- Mark Barrett, Robert Firth, Simon Weir
