a quiet renaissance: the ecology of 'new scottish cinema' (1990-present)

Long in the shadow of Scotland’s towering literary scene, with works such as Waverly, Lanark, and The Wasp Factory, Scottish cinema was something of a non-start. However, from the 1990s onwards a diverse, collaborative ecology quietly became a canon of its own. Johnathon Murray captures this moment:

‘Something strange happened to me in a Glaswegian cinema on an early January afternoon in 1995. Sitting among an unusually large audience, given the time of day, I watched Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle, GB, 1995), a film made in Scotland with substantial creative input from a broad range of Scottish artists. Despite being almost...