Sean Martin (filmmaker)

Sean Martin (born in Weston-super-Mare, England, in 1966) is an Anglo-Irish writer and film director. He has written books on the Knights Templar and the Cathars, and appeared on History Channel documentaries such as Decoding the Past: The Templar Code and in Channel 5's Secrets of the Cross: The Trial of the Knights Templar.

Martin studied film and history in Plymouth, and later lived in London. His book The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics, was on the early Christian Gnostics.[1] He wrote a book on new wave cinema, published in 2013.

Works

  • The Black Death (2001; 2009, ISBN 978-1904048862)
  • The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order (2005, ISBN 1-56025-645-1)
  • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages (2005, ISBN 1-56025-674-5)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky (2005, Pocket Essential series, ISBN 1-904048-49-8)
  • The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics (2007, Pocket Essential series, ISBN 1-904048-56-0)
  • Alchemy and Alchemists (2006, ISBN 978-1904048626)
  • The Cathars: Their History and Myths Revealed (2013, ISBN 1-62795-008-7)
  • New Waves in Cinema (2013, ISBN 978-1842432549)
  • A Short History of Disease (2015, ISBN 978-1-84344-419-0)
  • The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane (2018, ISBN 978-1-911132-34-9)

Filmography

  • Mystery Play (2001), a comic drama about the occult history of London, inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick, and also the Dekalog of Krzysztof Kieślowski.
  • The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow (2005), a psychological thriller about the occult history of London.
  • Genius Loci (2007), a short documentary detailing the mysteries and characters associated with Weston-super-Mare. Part of the Super-8 Cities Project – DVD released in 2007.
  • Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas and the Secret History of Cinema (2009), a documentary, co-directed and co-produced with Louise Milne, about the Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas, his collection of cinema memorabilia and his final film, Comrades (1987)
  • The Druids: Travels in Deep England (2011), a documentary, directed by Louise Milne and produced by Sean Martin.
  • A Boat Retold (2011), a short documentary about boats, storytelling and travel, co-directed with Louise Milne. Shot on the Isle of Lewis, the film follows a journey made to the Shiants by writer Robert Macfarlane and poet/artist Ian Stephen.
  • Folie à Deux (2012), a feature film starring Adam Napier, Sally Scott, and Chris Dunne, the film tells the story of an online date with a dark secret.
  • Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey (2018), documentary, co-directed with Louise Milne, about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovksy's second feature film, with interviews with cast and crew members. Released by Criterion in 2018.
  • Charlie Chaplin Lived Here (2019), documentary, co-directed with Louise Milne, reconstructing an unfinished 8mm film by Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas about Charlie Chaplin's London.
  • Blues for James Whitney (2020). Experimental short film dedicated to the American experimental filmmaker James Whitney (1921–1982). Shot in Japan.
  • The Dream in the Mirror (2021), documentary, co-directed with Louise Milne, about Tarkovksy's film The Mirror (1975). Released by Criterion.

References

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