The Devil's Breath

Directed By Ewan Golder

Synopsis: We meet them in a post-industrial, post-soviet, post-apocalyptic, dystopian landscape. Perhaps we are in hell? We hear a moaning wind and distant machinery groaning and grinding away in pain and perhaps even the odd scream. This is Vlad and Igor's world. A world of cold, hunger, and endless boredom. Perhaps we are in Limbo, some kind of purgatory but to Igor and Vlad, this world is their daily grind, a fight for survival, but for what purpose? Perhaps the endless days pass by uneventfully, identical; except that this day, naturally, will be is slightly different.

Born and raised in a small town on the Romney Marsh, on the wind swept coast of South East England, Ewan has always been equally preoccupied by the uncanny, the macabre and the absurd, and the delicate, the graceful and the transcendent.

After graduation in Media Production, Ewan’s interests have been broad, learning his craft as a filmmaker through a series of short films, music videos, experimental documentaries and video art. His most recent work has focused on attempting to create a subjective sensation in the viewer, an immersive experience, working with the assumption that unusual insights and perspectives are possible in characters who are somehow at odds with mainstream society.

His most recent short films have explored alcoholism, homelessness and Alzheimer’s disease and have been shown in film festivals in the UK and worldwide including the Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, British Short Festival, in Berlin, the Szczecin European Film Festival, in Poland, the ArtPlay Film Festival, in Moscow, the Blow Up Film Festival, in Chicago, and the Jewish film Festival, in the UK.

In 2017 and he graduated from the prestigious Le Fresnoy National School of Contemporary Art in France with a honour from the jury for sewing the language and imagination of cinema.

Ewan has also worked as an editor, first assistant director, videographer and in the locations department as well as a film programmer. In 2019 he initiated the creation of an association named NON JOUR that produced his latest short film The Devils Breath shot on 16mm film. 

He is currently studying the History and Philosophy of Art in Paris