Ieuan Morris is a Welsh film director and producer based in
Cardiff
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, South Wales.
Education
Morris is a graduate of
Central St Martins College of Art and Design
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and the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...
, London.
Filmmaking
Before returning to full-time art practice, Morris combined a career in academia with a career as a filmmaker.
Morris's filmmaking work (on sexuality and politics, based upon ideas of and produced/directed jointly with Ron Moule) was shown in art galleries in New York City, Montreal and the
ICA, London and led to joint commissions for programmes on
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...
, including work developing new work by LGBT filmmakers.
In 2003 Morris wrote and directed ''
Textual @traction'', which premiered at the
International Festival of New Film in Split, Croatia. Following a world-wide tour of international festivals including the Academy-listed Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the film was given a global television first for an interactive film, when it was broadcast on
S4C
S4C (, ''Sianel Pedwar Cymru'', meaning ''Channel Four Wales'') is a Welsh language free-to-air public broadcast television channel. Launched on 1 November 1982, it was the first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking ...
in January 2006, under its Welsh title ''Caru T x''.
In 2008, Morris' second interactive film ''Watch Me'', used
video messaging
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a PXT, a picture message, or a multimedia ...
as part of the film's format. It made the official selection for
Strasbourg International Film Festival. It was also in the Official Selection for the
Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival.
Morris was, until 2014, Reader in Film at the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries,
University of South Wales, Cardiff. He specialised in screenwriting and directing as well as the study of European and
avant-garde cinema
Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, parti ...
.
Exhibitions
* The photograph "Altar" selected for the
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2017.
* Photograph from ''Brand New Relics'' included in ''Subjectively Objective'' publication and Detroit gallery group exhibition ''Everything is Narrative'', 2021.
* Photographs from the ''Lockdown Landscape'' series included in the inaugural Inside the Outside Group's Journal, ''Right to Roam'', 2021.
Awards
*1999: ''Meanwhile'' (15mins, 35mm), which he wrote and directed, was nominated for the
DM Davies Award at the
International Film Festival of Wales, nominated Best Short Film at
BAFTA Wales and Best Short Film at the
International Crime and Mystery Festival, Courmayeur, Italy.
* ''
Textual @traction'', won Best New Media Interactive Award at the
Celtic Film Festival and the
Welsh Development Agency Focus on Interactive Best Innovation Award.
* ''Textual @traction'' was nominated for a BAFTA UK Interactive Award.
* 2008: ''Watch Me'' was nominated Best Short Film at the BAFTA Cymru Awards and the Celtic Media Festival; nominated Best Short Screenplay at
Strasbourg International Film Festival
* The series ''Brand New Relics'' nominated for the 2017 Hariban Award, Kyoto, Japan.
References
External links
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0605/15-morris.php*
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Welsh film directors