2017
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FEATURE FILM
Hollow in the Land
Starring Dianna Agron. A noir thriller set in the rugged expanse of a rural logging community in British Columbia.
ODDFELLOWS PICTURESELEVATION PICTURESVERTICAL ENTERTAINMENT
SC / WORKS & ARCHIVESAN UNFINISHED ARCHIVE OF INTEREST
An in-progress collection of things seen, heard, remembered, and occasionally made up.
Films, photographs, essays, sounds, research, and other unfinished attempts at understanding my interests. Some to make sense of self. Some to make sense of others. Most begin with a question and end with another one.
FILE OPEN / NO FIXED CONCLUSION
FRAME 001 / AN INTERLUDE
“...it never came or went, just simply was. This is not remembered but felt.”
RUSHING TO SEA / OREGON COAST, ANOTHER LIFE AGO01 / FIELD NOTE
Cinema has always been my deepest connection to others. In its stories, I see mirrors of who I am, pieces of others I envy to be, and parts of myself I’m afraid to face. It reveals us like no other medium, including the resilience required when a film falls flat and leaves you crushed beneath it.
[01] CINEMA & DIRECTING
FEATURES / SHORTS / PROMOTIONAL
01.A / FEATURE FILMSLONG FORM NARRATIVE
2022
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FEATURE FILM
The Friendship Game
Starring Peyton List. An atmospheric horror-thriller examining youth, loyalty, and supernatural terror.
SCYTHIA FILMSRLJELEVELfilm
01.B / HERITAGE MINUTESHISTORICAL NARRATIVE
01.C / SHORT FILMSSELECTED SHORT WORK
01.D / SCREENPLAY EXCERPTSSELECTED WRITING / 04 SCRIPTS
Four selections from the page. Open a screenplay to read it here.
I Am Thy Scourge O'God
Opening chapter
READ SCREENPLAY HERE ↗In Wailing Fields
Opening excerpt
READ SCREENPLAY HERE ↗The Life We Eat
Complete short screenplay
READ SCREENPLAY HERE ↗Babe in the Woods
Opening excerpt
READ SCREENPLAY HERE ↗01.E / PROMOTIONAL & COMMERCIALSELECTED WORK / 06 PROJECTS
A selection of commissioned films and campaigns.
HOUSING CANADA COALITION01 / 06HOUSING / CAMPAIGNHousing Canada Coalition — Unfair GameWATCH HERE ↗
BC NURSES02 / 06HEALTHCARE / CAMPAIGNBC Nurses — NightmareWATCH HERE ↗
DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION03 / 06ENVIRONMENT / CAMPAIGNDavid Suzuki Foundation — Selected CampaignWATCH HERE ↗
UNITED NURSES OF ALBERTA04 / 06HEALTHCARE / CAMPAIGNUnited Nurses of Alberta — Life SupportWATCH HERE ↗
WORKBC05 / 06
EMPLOYMENT / CAMPAIGNWorkBC — Selected CampaignWATCH HERE ↗
EVO06 / 06PROMOTIONAL / FILMEvo — Book an Evo!WATCH HERE ↗
01.F / CAMPAIGN STUDYCREATIVE DIRECTION / POINT BLANK CREATIVE
Choose Care, Not Cuts
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions / Advocacy Campaign
A particularly satisfying creative direction sample with measurable impact, translating a complex public-policy issue into a personal, emotionally driven story that demonstrates how compelling creative work can serve strategic goals.
FROM THE SHOOT PLANNER / SELECTED FRAMES
The Situation
Canada's public healthcare system was facing growing pressure from funding cuts, staffing shortages, and increasing demands on frontline workers. Ahead of the 2019 federal election, we helped launch Choose Care, Not Cuts, a national campaign for the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, bringing healthcare priorities before voters and political candidates.
The Approach
Rather than lead with policy or statistics, we used a child's imaginary hospital to make the consequences of healthcare cuts personal. The flagship film formed part of a broader campaign spanning social advertising, a dedicated website, downloadable resources, newsletters, and outreach to political candidates, addressing five priorities: pharmacare, staffing and workplace violence, seniors’ care, child care, and federal healthcare funding.
The Impact
According to the CFNU's Fall 2019 campaign report, the campaign's social media video and graphic advertisements generated more than one million views, while thousands of voters used its digital advocacy tools to send messages to candidates. These figures reflect the reach and participation of the overall campaign, rather than the performance of the film alone.
FROM THE CAMPAIGN / SELECTED MATERIALS
1M+CAMPAIGN VIDEO & GRAPHIC AD VIEWS
ThousandsVOTER MESSAGES SENT TO CANDIDATES
Source: CFNU Review, Fall 2019 ↗ / Overall campaign figures; not film-only metrics.
FRAME 002 / AN INTERLUDE
“I settled back into my loneliness with the comfort of a traveller waiting for his train.”
CUSTODIANS OF SAND / ARABIAN ORYX PROTECTED AREA, THE TEEN AGE02 / FIELD NOTE
Photography is observing the world through a subjective lens. Choosing frames that compel memory: places I’ve travelled, people I’ve met, moments of history passing in front of me. My first camera was a Canon EOS 35mm SLR that Mum & John gave me for Christmas in Abu Dhabi, 2001.
[02] PHOTOGRAPHY / CONTACT SHEETSSELECTED FRAMES
An archive of observations.
Select any frame to inspect it.
EXPLORE PHOTOGRAPHY ↗02 / I
Displacements
Some frames hold the eye. Others ask it to wander.
CONTACT / SEQUENCE
A photograph trades objective truth for emotional fiction.
02 / IIThe In-Between
02 / II
The In-Between
An arrangement of distances, gestures, and unfinished places.
02 / IIILost Pieces
02 / III
Lost Pieces
Fragments brought together without insisting they belong.
CONTACT / SEQUENCE
The space between frames is part of the story.
02 / IVAfterimages
02 / IV
Afterimages
The remaining frames, held a little farther apart.
20 FRAMES CURRENTLY DISPLAYED / MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION TO FOLLOW
03 / FROM THE NOTEBOOK
Writing is an outlet formed in fragments, patched together by fallible memories and a flair for embellishment, yet the underlying emotions are no less true.
[03] WRITING & PROSE
SUBSTACK PUBLICATION
// SUBSTACK: @SPECTACULUMTUMULTUS327168
SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK ↗
Short Tales & Cultural Essays
Three selected works of short prose. Read the complete essays here, or visit their original Substack publications.
★ ESSAY / SHORT PROSE • SUBSTACK
Death of a Gull
On mortality, dignity, and a bag of shit
SCOOTER CORKLE / JUL 29, 2026
★ ESSAY / SHORT PROSE • SUBSTACK
August Madness
A sober tale of drinking
SCOOTER CORKLE / AUG 25, 2026
★ ESSAY / SHORT PROSE • SUBSTACK
The Smell Collector
A questionable recollection of memory loss
SCOOTER CORKLE / OCT 14, 2026
04 / FIELD NOTE
Cinematicalism is about finding meaning through process and analysis: deciphering cinematic language to communicate as a community and celebrate a shared history in pictures.
[04] CINEMATICALISM
BOOK / VIDEO ESSAYS
04.A THE COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF CINEMAREFERENCE / PUBLISHING
1,312 PAGES // 5,424 ENTRIES // 11 SECTIONS
The Comprehensive Dictionary of Cinema
A definitive reference work mapping the full vocabulary of filmmaking—from technical jargon, lens optics, and set mechanics to academic film theory, movement histories, and international terminology. Built with contributions from 35+ industry professionals.
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CLICK TERM TO INSPECT
Dogme 95 (n. / Film Movement)
Avant-garde movement founded in Copenhagen in 1995 enforcing strict rules known as the "Vow of Chastity" (location shooting, handheld camera, diegetic sound only, natural light, no artificial filters).
04.B CINEMATICALISM — YOUTUBEVIDEO ESSAYS / FILM CULTURE
CINEMA / CRAFT / CONVERSATION
Cinematicalism on YouTube
A celebration of cinema, from arthouse to splatter. Video essays and conversations about the craft of filmmaking, the people who make movies, and the strange things that make them memorable.
Featuring The Wanting Camera and Three of a Kind
FRAME 003 / AN INTERLUDE
“The anxiety of middle age has proved an annoyingly persistent companion...”
HARLEY'S CORKLE / ARIZONA SIDE HOOVER DAM, DRINKING AGE05 / FIELD NOTE
Music expresses differently to everything else, touching some primate rhythm that must be felt rather than thinking an idea to death. It follows the flow of mood, finding joy, heartbreak, love. Plus conversations that further my obsession with the craft of cinema, straight from the mouths of the mad craftspeople who live the dream.
[05] SOUND
MUSIC / PODCAST / AUDIO ARCHIVE
05.A / MUSIC & COMPOSITIONSNOR_KEL / SOUNDCLOUD
// SOUNDCLOUD ACCOUNT: SNOR_KEL
OPEN SOUNDCLOUD ALBUMS ↗
Audio Compositions & Albums
Original compositions, electronic soundscapes, and albums recorded under alter ego snor_kel.
05.B / PODCAST & CREWCONVERSATION / FILM CREW
FROM THE ARCHIVE / AUDIO
PodCast & Crew
A series about the people working below the line in film and storytelling. Each episode brings together emerging and established crew members in the same role to talk about how they got started, the different routes their careers took, and what they've learned along the way.
LISTEN TO FEATURED EPISODE — SPFX / MAKEUP: TODD MASTERS & TRACY LAI ↗For all episodes follow the Simplecast link ↗.
UNDER INVESTIGATION
Still collecting. Still revising.
[06] BIOGRAPHY & REPOSITORY DIRECTORY
Scooter Corkle is a writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary creator exploring story structures across cinema, written prose, audio compositions, and archival research.
His directorial feature films Hollow in the Land and The Friendship Game released theatrically across the globe, and streamed on Netflix, Crave, and Shudder.
He co-authored The Comprehensive Dictionary of Cinema (1,312 pages, 5,424 entries), available at cinematicalism.com, and publishes essays regularly on Substack.
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