Directing

Grant McPhee

Known for

Directing

Credits

19 titles

Grant McPhee is a Scottish film and television director and cinematographer.

Known for

Night Kaleidoscope poster
10.0

Night Kaleidoscope transforms Edinburgh's cobbled backstreets into a dark dreamscape brimming with supernatural menace. It's the perfect backdrop for Fion, a cynical psychic investigator who peddles his gift for anyone willing to pay. With abilities depleting, he must take powerful drugs to induce his visions and track down a pair of vampires terrorising the cities night population.

Night Kaleidoscope

2017

Wigilia poster
NR

A traditional Polish feast on Christmas Eve, Wigilia includes an extra place at the table should an unknown wandering pilgrim arrive.

Wigilia

2014

Far from the Apple Tree poster
4.8

Judith, a struggling artist, gets her dream job of working for a renowned visual artist named Roberta Roslyn. While cataloging Roberta's work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, she learns that this girl is actually her boss's missing daughter Maddy. As she investigates the mystery of just what could have happened to this girl, she starts to develop a new persona and it comes to a point where she must decide if she is to leave her job or continue and risk losing who she is.

Far from the Apple Tree

2019

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream poster
6.0

Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associated bands like Fire Engines, Scars and Josef K

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream

2015

Beyond the Speed of Life poster
NR

A visual accompaniment to Port Sulphur's 'the Speed of Life' LP. Shot entirely with 1960s vintage 16mm cameras and lenses it is an exploration of early music video aesthetics, B-Movies, amateur filmmaking and the Underground.

Beyond the Speed of Life

2022

Teenage Superstars poster
7.5

Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.

Teenage Superstars

2017

Behind the camera

Night Kaleidoscope poster
10.0

Night Kaleidoscope transforms Edinburgh's cobbled backstreets into a dark dreamscape brimming with supernatural menace. It's the perfect backdrop for Fion, a cynical psychic investigator who peddles his gift for anyone willing to pay. With abilities depleting, he must take powerful drugs to induce his visions and track down a pair of vampires terrorising the cities night population.

Night Kaleidoscope

2017

Wigilia poster
NR

A traditional Polish feast on Christmas Eve, Wigilia includes an extra place at the table should an unknown wandering pilgrim arrive.

Wigilia

2014

Far from the Apple Tree poster
4.8

Judith, a struggling artist, gets her dream job of working for a renowned visual artist named Roberta Roslyn. While cataloging Roberta's work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, she learns that this girl is actually her boss's missing daughter Maddy. As she investigates the mystery of just what could have happened to this girl, she starts to develop a new persona and it comes to a point where she must decide if she is to leave her job or continue and risk losing who she is.

Far from the Apple Tree

2019

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream poster
6.0

Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associated bands like Fire Engines, Scars and Josef K

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream

2015

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream poster
6.0

Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associated bands like Fire Engines, Scars and Josef K

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream

2015

Beyond the Speed of Life poster
NR

A visual accompaniment to Port Sulphur's 'the Speed of Life' LP. Shot entirely with 1960s vintage 16mm cameras and lenses it is an exploration of early music video aesthetics, B-Movies, amateur filmmaking and the Underground.

Beyond the Speed of Life

2022

Beyond the Speed of Life poster
NR

A visual accompaniment to Port Sulphur's 'the Speed of Life' LP. Shot entirely with 1960s vintage 16mm cameras and lenses it is an exploration of early music video aesthetics, B-Movies, amateur filmmaking and the Underground.

Beyond the Speed of Life

2022

Beyond the Speed of Life poster
NR

A visual accompaniment to Port Sulphur's 'the Speed of Life' LP. Shot entirely with 1960s vintage 16mm cameras and lenses it is an exploration of early music video aesthetics, B-Movies, amateur filmmaking and the Underground.

Beyond the Speed of Life

2022

Teenage Superstars poster
7.5

Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.

Teenage Superstars

2017

Teenage Superstars poster
7.5

Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.

Teenage Superstars

2017

No artwork available
NR

Fuzzy travelling landscape

Unflame

2007

No artwork available
NR

Dancing patterns struggling to focus on an object

Aphlogistic

2007

Sarah's Room poster
4.3

A lonely wife takes in a young female boarder named Sarah. Her husband returns, and he can't keep himself away from the alluring Sarah, and the exotic mysteries hidden in her room. Made in Scotland in just five days for six grand, "Sarah's Room" is an intriguing and artistic tale told in haunting tones, smoky interiors and often voyeuristic camera techniques. Outstanding low budget film

Sarah's Room

2013

No artwork available
NR

Edinburgh man walking with image interspersed with camera burn.

Effluvium

2006

No artwork available
NR

The is the non-linear story of Jacobs Pillow, a psychedelic folk band from Scotland. Filmed over 10 years and featuring live performances this documentary explores the conflict between maintaining integrity and the daily realities of being in a band.

Between Above and Below

2008

Lori and the Six Six Sixties poster
NR

It is the tale of a shy young woman seeking her fame in the dark work of the 1960s folk-music underground. Lori’s journey to stardom takes her on a journey far beyond the familiar music world she is trying to break into and instead breaks out to a forgotten past of rural landscapes, magic, myth, dead Gods and mysterious fallen angels.

Lori and the Six Six Sixties

2021

No artwork available
NR

Building, interiors and landscape soundtrack

Shadow Halation

2009

The Glasgow School poster
NR

For those of you wanting more Postcard records then this is the film for you! The Glasgow School is a companion to Big Gold Dream and is the most comprehensive account of Postcard, Swamplands, Strawberry Switchblade, The Jazzateers/Paul Quinn, James King, WIN and The Bluebells that's ever been assembled. No soundbites here, just plenty of accounts from those who were there.

The Glasgow School

2016

Bell Witch of Leith poster
NR

An experiment in style over substance. It attempts to present the actual medium of film as the focus as opposed to the bland subject matter. The film looks to gain the viewers interest by drawing attention to the fact they are watching a film. It is a comment on the quick cutting and style prevalent in popular film.

Bell Witch of Leith

2009