Digitally transferred and edited colourSuper8 with sound, 15minutes. 2024.​

There was a plan to build a cinema in the cliffs – it might have been here. Sinkhole is a poetic response to the archive and oral histories of Tyneside Cinema, an independent cinema in north-east England which has faced many waves of crisis. Through vignettes, Sinkhole meditates on grand visions and being near to collapse.

Filmed on Kodak Super8 Film. ​Processed and scanned by Gauge Film Ltd and On8Mil.​ Commissioned by Tyneside Cinema with funding from Arts Council England​.

Sinkhole is a fiction that draws on stories found in the archive and oral histories of Tyneside Cinema.​ It samples language from statements the cinema has used to define itself.

Camera – Sarah Bouttell​

Additional Camera, Sound Design , Edit, Voice, Script, Direction – Kate Liston​

Music – Dan Wilde​

Executive Producers – Taryn Edmonds and Ian Fenton​

Festivals:​

Couch Film Festival, Toronto: March 2025 – Short Experimental Winner

Alternative Film Festival, Toronto: April 2025 – Nominee​

Oberhausen International Short Film Festival April 2025​

Sunderland Short Film Festival May 2025​

Flat Earth Film Festival, Iceland, October 2025​

Festival Signs of the Night, Berlin: November 2025​

SET Film Festival, London: November 2025