• Included on the BFI release of Bill Douglas’s Comrades on DVD and Blu-Ray.

The great Scottish director Bill Douglas used early optical devices to magical effect in his last film, Comrades. This documentary explores the poetic vision expressed in that film and in his astonishing collection of pre-cinema artifacts.

Included on the BFI release of Bill Douglas’s Comrades on DVD and Blu-Ray.

A film by Sean Martin & Louise Milne

Edited by Nicholas Soldan

Color correction by Peter Gerard

Produced by 891 Filmhouse in association with Accidental Media