BRYAN M. FERGUSON: “I have always been attracted to the sinister underbelly of society”
Spanish version published here.
The young Scottish filmmaker and photographer Bryan M. Ferguson is a guy who has managed to follow his instincts breaking through “their way” in the competitive arenas of the creative industry. His photos are a real collection of film frames that seem to transport us into dark and unfinished stories, always with an existentialist narrative background, as we have seen in his two latest films. A job we talked exclusively from Glasgow.
Bryan, when did you first get interested in photography and filming?
“Filmmaking is something I have always wanted to be involved in. I believe I have always known that I’ve wanted to be a film director. I recall being 4 years old in a classroom and stating to my teacher that this is what I wanted to do, also while among my classmates who all wanted to be sport stars and astronauts. I just knew that I wanted to create compelling stories and compose each frame of these stories with fascinating visuals and I hopefully have been doing that since then. I believe it probably stems from being taken to the cinema regularly from a very young age and my parents having a vast collection of films for me to sift through while growing up. Photography on the other hand is something I never gave much thought to. I only ever started taking an interest in it when I was 19. I was always more focused on filmmaking to even consider taking photographs, but after a long period of discontent and creative frustration in regards to lack of funding and materials to actually make my films I decided that perhaps picking up a DSLR was a way to circumvent that frustration and still be able to create a story, albeit one frame instead of 24 per second. But I feel that taking up photography has really helped shape me as a filmmaker. I believe working solely on a single image each time I take a photograph has really improved my eye when it comes to composing my shots for each of my films.”
