PSAM#2 19.02.25

The second PSAM event was held at The Banshee Labyrinth on 19th February, 2025.

The event invited each artist to showcase their work LIVE on the BIG SCREEN. There-afterwards, a 5-minute Q&A was held where the artist may answer questions with the audience!

This creative platform, in addition to the screenings, fosters community connections through dedicated networking opportunities. Guests, artists, and creatives alike can mingle, share ideas, and collaborate on future projects in a relaxed and inspiring environment.

ALL WELCOME! 

Artists, guests, visitors, creative experts, press and more! 

PSAM#2 19.02.25

Featured Artists

Here's the line-up for PSAM#2:

  • Hamish “Morphamish” – Music Videographer and Studio Producer

  • James Flowerdew - Artist, Sculptor and Writer 

  • Ian Lee Moffat - Actor

  • Anna and Eck "Ravaged Hearts" - Musicians

  • Jean-Luc Addams AKA Qasarbeach - Animator 

  • Christopher Law - Drone Specialist 

  • James Russell - AI visual Specialist

  • Rik Hodgson - Amateur Cinematographer and Serial Dramatist 

"Morphamish" – Music videographer and studio producer 

Artist statement: “My primary skill set is in audio production. I run Sound Sound Studios recording and producing music and speech. I am also an artist and like to engage in visual stuff too. I have a green screen studio on site at Sound Sound Studio’s, which is available for hire!”

James Flowerdew - Artist, Sculptor and Writer 

James Flowerdew is a multidisciplinary artist, and possibly maverick. He has exhibited around the country, including solo shows, live demonstrations and performances.

Initially trained in fine art (paint and print), James has also gathered experience in a wide range of fields that vary from video and video games to sculpture and building musical instruments. James has even a published book!

His work tends to hover around the awkward space between reality, fantasy, and madness where the audience become witness to the conflict between inner-self, spirituality, fantasy and gain privy to question the real-world that they have to coexist with. 

Lee Ian Moffat - Actor 

Lee Ian Moffat is a self taught actor and although he hasn't received any formal training, he regards himself as an eternal student, always looking to learn from those he has the privilege of working with.

"Be like Danny Trejo"

is his acting ethos. This means to make your own luck, fake-it till you make-it and do anything and everything that comes your way!

Feature presentation: "US NOT THEM"

Director/Editor/Composer: Louis Hudd 

Duration (approx): 18 mins 

Logline: "A washed up wheeler dealer and his nephew go on an ill-fated business venture."

Synopsis: "For some, operating in an ethical grey area can be very lucrative, but this is not the case for washed-up wheeler-dealer Finley. Constantly clashing with the idea of modernity, Finley instead clings to a world that only exists in the collective imagination of pensioners down the pub. When a new business venture comes along, he forms a scheme to re-cast himself as the lead in his very own crime drama whilst having his nephew Lucas there to witness and immortalise his quick wit, good looks, and charm. What Finley fails to account for is that his actions have consequences, and when a drug dealer with a grudge attends his big deal, it's down to Finley to save his image in the eyes of the next generation." 

Anna and Eck "Ravaged Hearts" - Musicians 

An original song about climate change and the environment by Anna and Eck of Ravaged Hearts featuring fiddle, guitar and accordion.

The video features the standing stones of Tuilyeas, near Culross. The stone in the picture is called a hag stone, and it is said you can see the future if you look through the hole in it! Grangemouth Refinery is seen in the background, giving a dystopian backdrop. There is a strong sense of the ancient and ever-turning Earth in this feature presentation by these two mezmorising artists! 

Jean-Luc Addams AKA Qasar Beach - Animator 

Qasarbeach is a composer, an animator and an artist. He prefers to work in the digital realm with experience in publishing, advertising and moving image.

"If it's visual then i'm in!"

Currently, Qasarbeach has been learning all there is to know about animation. He has been in Scotland for eons and previously worked at Edinburgh College of Art. He also has a passion for sound and sampling systems from the 1980's.

Christopher Law - Drone Specialist 

Artist statement: "I have an interest in cinematography and motion controllers, along with drone technology and it's dynamic flexibility. 

My education is a BSc (hons) Interactive Media Design, where I learned CGI and 2D animation. I feel the best results in modern cinema are often when you combine the two techniques, using CGI in a more realistic way.

My aspirations are to try my skills with animatronics and silicon moulds. I also have some experience with micro-controllers, which I consider a cross over skill to animatronics. 

I believe that low budget film-making is now totally within the grasp of people outside of large scale studios, and low budget independent cinema is often my favourite type." 

James Russell - AI visual specialist 

Artist statement: "The work entitled Faceless explores the boundaries and shifting relationship we have as people with AI technology. The artist asks us to question the potential that AI poses in creating a faceless society, where our individuality is being subsumed by the machine.  Russell furthers his enquiry to fore-ward of the possible ramifications that self-generated technology may herald. When technology leads its instructions from itself and creates its own outcomes, what are the risks? Is it possible that we can successfully develop a healthy collaborative relationship with AI, or are we as people ceding control to a force that we don't fully understand or will be able to manage?

Russells works aims to highlight the commonality of issues we, as a human species, collectively must overcome as we stand on the doostep of technological self-revolution! 

Rik Hodgson - Amateur Cinematographer and Serial Dramatist

Artist statement: "New to the scene, Hodgson started film making in 2022 and already boasts a handsome collection of films including a documentary, an animation and series of narrative dramas. 

Hodgsons work is hard-hitting, gritty and narrow, addressing social-real problems in a declining climate. His work has been realised thanks to the support and training from Screen Education Edinburgh. 

More recently, Hodgson has strayed into the realm of independant film making, releasing his first short, The Bomb, in 2024, a film exploring the boundaries of human friendship. The artists passion and enthusiasm has lead him to enter this film into a number of film festivals for 2025!

Hodgson is also currently writing his next short film, with the working title El Cojones del Toro, set to go into production in the coming year." 

Thank you for your support!

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