Russell Adam Morton

BIOGRAPHIE

Russell Adam Morton is a Singaporean filmmaker and visual artist. He is a graduate from The Puttnam School of Film, Lasalle College of the Arts (2010) and obtained an MA in Fine Arts from Camberwell College of the Arts, UAL (2012). His films have been part of the Athens Video Art Festival 2012 and participated in several group shows in London. The film, The Silent Dialogue of All Artworks was screened at the National Museum of Singapore’s 10th Singapore Short Cuts, The Substation’s 4th Experimental Film Forum and the Thai Short Film & Video Festival 2014. The film later went on to win Best Experimental Film at the 5th Singapore Short Film Awards. His second film, The Forest of Copper Columns, has won the Cinematic Achievement Award at the Thessaloniki Short Film Festival 2016 and has been selected at several festivals including the Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, SEAShorts and Short Shorts Film Festival (2017). He was also the Director of Photography for Ang Song Ming’s Recorder Rewrite, Singapore’s entry to the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Morton's "Saudade", 2020, was a commission from the Asian Film Archive. A short film set against the exultant Eurasian imaginations about the lost and displacement of the communities language - Kristang. Morton’s interest lies in folklore and mythologies and attempts to string together a relationship between the human experience with ancient narratives. He is currently working on his first feature film about Malayan ghosts.

FILMOGRAPHIE