EXPERIMENTAL

The Knife She Became. 2023, 5 mins. All visuals, sound and music by Simon James Cookson. Content warning - contains strobing imagery,

Corette, or the Temporary Nearness of Unmediated Night. 2023, 4 mins. All visuals, sound and music by Simon James Cookson. Content warning - contains strobing imagery,

Radial for the Once Dead. 2023, 5 mins. All visuals, sound and music by Simon James Cookson. Content warning - contains strobing imagery,

NARRATIVE SHORT

Murmur, 2015. Written by Simon James Cookson, dir. Aurora Fearnley, DP Phil Wood

Nominee, best short film, London Short Film Festival 2016, nominee RIFF Golden Egg award, Reykjavik International Film Festival 2016, nominee, panel award, best short film, Tweetfest Short Film Festival 2016, nominee, Grand Jury Award, Dances with Films 2016.

NON-NARRATIVE

Bleach #8 2mins, 2021. iPhone XR, sodium hypochlorite on reversal film

Bleach # 2, 3 mins, 2021. iPhone XR, sodium hypochlorite on reversal film

Heliophobe 2m, 2020. BMPCC 4k, Pentax Super Takumar 50mm

Growing 5m, 2020. BMPCC 4k, SLR Magic 8mm. Shot on location in South Wales

Coeden 5m, 2020. BMPCC 4k, SLR Magic 8mm. Shot on location in South Wales

MUSIC VIDEO

The Be Positives - Rain and Stormy Weather 4m, 2021. BMPCC 4k, Pentax Super Takumar 50mm, SLR Magic 8mm, Meike 25mm T2.2 Cine Lens, Sigma Art 18-35mm 1.8

IN DEVELOPMENT

Untitled Feature Project 2026, TBC.

Begun in early 2021, I am in the process of developing a narrative feature film. It will be entirely self-shot here in the UK and is an experimental horror surrounding a 16 year-old girl, the extinction of the human race, and an entity at the top of a mountain. It is a very long-term project by its nature and currently has a planned completion date of 2026. I will be documenting some of the process here, more to follow.

Untitled Brutalist Documentary Project 2024.

An abstract, non-narrative documentary about Brutalist architecture. More to follow.