Tom Whitson
Filmmaker, video editor, photographer
I am interested in space as a refuge, much of my work explores and intimates our relationships to space.
I also work as a freelance filmmaker and video editor, with three years experience as the lead video creative at the award-winning creative agency Plaster, where clients ranged from the BBC to performance venues and festivals.
I have also been a solo freelance filmmaker and editor for five years, specialising in videos for musicians and their record labels.
Documentaries screened in venues such as The Watershed, Strange Brew, The Cube
Visual materials for releases on labels such as Rough Trade Records, Black Acre, AD93 and Spinny Nights
Press photographs featured in The Guardian, NME magazine, The Wire
Have a (hopefully) not-so-doom-scroll through my work,
I would love to hear from you if you’d like to discuss making something.
‘What Does Normal Look Like?’ - Feature Documentary
Film status: released and available to view online, here. (password: thezone2020)
Runtime: 71 minutes
Synopsis: “Your whole delusional dream of June being the day everything goes back to normality is a f***ing facade, fam.”
A collaborative documentary exploring lockdown's effect on Bristol’s culture - day and night.
Pieces of the lockdown experience, captured by a variety of Bristol artists, are woven into the fabric of this film - creating a collage form documentary which represents the biggest psychological and irrevocable change of our lifetime, a powerful moment where some of us realised what we need as a collective society, finding out what we really were and what we really need to live.
a film by Tom Whitson & Colin Moody
Quade - Foel Tower (Visual Project)
artwork, press photographs, music videos for Quade
label: AD93
12 Pieces of The Courts (Exhibition & Mural)
12 Pieces of The Courts
Format: Installation / Photography
funded by the National Lottery Fund
Exhibition commissioned as part of the launch of The Courts building in Bristol city centre. Photographs taken over a two year period of the building’s regeneration from it’s derelict state into a city centre hub for young creatives.
12 photographs, pasted onto old pieces of the building and made self-standing, with slate captions written in chalk - all materials sourced from not-needed debris from the building.
The Courts Walls
Format: Mural
A commission to mark the end of my photography project of The Courts - permanent wall-sized photographs on Blueback paper, wallpaper pasted onto the main corridors in The Courts building.
funding: National Lottery Fund