We know a better word than happy, video still, child holding willow catkins
We know a better word than happy, video still, children in red, playing in woodland below tall tenement buildings with scafolding

We know a better word than happy, 5 min, Helen McCrorie, 2021

Featuring The Children's Wood, location: Maryhill, Glasgow

Cinematography: Margaret Salmon

Sound design with Richy Carey

 

A BBC Arts and LUX Scotland commission for Now & Next

If play is neither inside nor outside where is it?, video still, child cutting grass with scissors
If play is neither inside nor outside where is it?, video still, children drawing on concrete wall
If play is neither inside nor outside where is it?, video still, data centre in former bunker

If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, 26 min, Helen McCrorie, 2019

Featuring Comrie Outdoor Playgroup, location: Cultybraggan Camp a community buyout by Comrie Development Trust, a former POW and miltary camp

Sound design with Mark Vernon

Essay by Emmie McLuskey

A Satellites commission for COLLECTIVE Included in Edinburgh Art Festival and COLLECTIVE PLAY, 2019

If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie, installation COLLECTIVE, 2019
If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie, installation The Tetley, 2019

If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, installations at COLLECTIVE and at The Tetley, as part of James Hutchinson: Untitled, group show


Against the Flow, video still, child spinning
Bravo Nyamudoka using the community library
Against the Flow, video still, flooded trees

Against the Flow, 27 min, Helen McCrorie, 2018

Featuring the community of Comrie, Perthshire and Earnsong choir, a film project in response to local flooding

Sound design with Mark Vernon

Commission for Culture Perth & Kinross for Platform Festival screened at Perth Playhouse cinema and Comrie community Library, 2019

Against the Flow, Helen McCrorie, library installation, 2018
Against the Flow, Helen McCrorie, screening with choir, Perth Playhouse Cinema, 2018

Against the Flow, installation at the community library and Earnsong choir performance at the screening, in collaboration with musicians Christine Kydd, Irene Railley, Adelaide Carlow


The Clock in Commune, video still, men making flambeaux torch
The Clock in Commune, video still triptych, man winding wire and ordination
The Clock in Commune, video still triptych, woman singing and torches being thrown in river

The Clock in Commune, 3 channel, 22 min, Helen McCrorie, 2016

Featuring the performers of Comrie Hogmanay Flambeaux, and priests and congregation of St Mungo's Church, Glasgow.

A film-essay on the female gaze and communities in Scotland that continue to perform gender-exclusive rituals

Publication and essay with Alex Hetherington

The Clock in Commune, 3 screen video installation in the Glasite House, Edinburgh, fireworks scene

The Clock in Commune

triptych installation in The Glasite House, Edinburgh, as part of Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016