
Directing
Tim Walker
Known for
Directing
Credits
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Tim Walker was born in England in 1970 and developed an interest in photography that led to his first shoot for British Vogue aged twenty-five. He is a professional photographer and filmmaker known for his imaginative imagery influenced by fairytales and a thirst for adventure, having photographs published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, W, LOVE, Another Man and i-D and having shot music videos and album covers for Kate Bush, Harry Styles and Björk. His first short film, The Lost Explorer, premiered at Locarno Film Festival in 2010.
Known for
NRA moment in Iceland; Planet Tilda.
Planet Tilda
2011
NRA step back in time through an ancesteral wardrobe.
Personal History
2023
NRA super 8 short in response to ancestors, ghosts, nature and Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug.
The Tree
2025
NRDirector Tim Walker's 2010 short film The Lost Explorer starring Richard Bremmer, Olympia Campbell and Jessica Hynes. Based on a story by Patrick McGrath, the story begins with a child, Evelyn, stumbling upon a tent among brambles at the bottom of her garden. Inside, an explorer is dying of malaria and clutching a revolver...
The Lost Explorer
2010
NRA short film directed by Tim Walker. Produced by Emma Dalzell.
The Magic Paintbrush
2016
NRTilda Swinton's art-filled adventures in the home and museum of art collectors Dominique and John de Menil.
Tilda in de Menil Land
2014
Behind the camera
NRA moment in Iceland; Planet Tilda.
Planet Tilda
2011
NRA step back in time through an ancesteral wardrobe.
Personal History
2023
NRA super 8 short in response to ancestors, ghosts, nature and Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug.
The Tree
2025
NRDirector Tim Walker's 2010 short film The Lost Explorer starring Richard Bremmer, Olympia Campbell and Jessica Hynes. Based on a story by Patrick McGrath, the story begins with a child, Evelyn, stumbling upon a tent among brambles at the bottom of her garden. Inside, an explorer is dying of malaria and clutching a revolver...
The Lost Explorer
2010
NRA short film directed by Tim Walker. Produced by Emma Dalzell.
The Magic Paintbrush
2016
NRTilda Swinton's art-filled adventures in the home and museum of art collectors Dominique and John de Menil.
Tilda in de Menil Land
2014
8.2Legend has it that if a human man falls in love with a mermaid she will grow legs; legs that will, if she so desires, carry her far, far away from the very man she cast her watery spell upon... But what becomes of the human man, when her spell remains but she is gone? Edward Dunstan (Ben Whishaw) is a photographer and filmmaker obsessed by his muse (Kristen McMenamy). Blinded by his all-consuming passion and perfectionism, he was unable to see her as she was and so, she has left him. All that remains are his photographs and film of her that he has running on a loop. Only now does he understand what she endured. There is nothing left for him but to become both artist and muse…
The Muse
2014
8.2Legend has it that if a human man falls in love with a mermaid she will grow legs; legs that will, if she so desires, carry her far, far away from the very man she cast her watery spell upon... But what becomes of the human man, when her spell remains but she is gone? Edward Dunstan (Ben Whishaw) is a photographer and filmmaker obsessed by his muse (Kristen McMenamy). Blinded by his all-consuming passion and perfectionism, he was unable to see her as she was and so, she has left him. All that remains are his photographs and film of her that he has running on a loop. Only now does he understand what she endured. There is nothing left for him but to become both artist and muse…
The Muse
2014
NRA mermaid floats in a tank and washes up on a rocky beach. An alternate snapshot from Walker's short film 'The Muse' originally released by W Magazine.
The Little Mermaid
2013
NRA mermaid floats in a tank and washes up on a rocky beach. An alternate snapshot from Walker's short film 'The Muse' originally released by W Magazine.
The Little Mermaid
2013
