director of the film ‘Underland’
Robert is a director working to collide the disciplines of geography and filmmaking to tell stories that challenge existing narratives of identity, landscape, citizenship, surveillance and power. He has spent the last four years collaborating with the acclaimed writer Rob Macfarlane on a cinematic documentary adaptation of the bestselling book ‘Underland’, which premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival in June 2025. Prior this project, the two Robs made the critically acclaimed experimental film Upstream (BBC Four). Billed as a 'dream-flight into wildness and winter’, Upstream was filmed entirely from the air and follows the course of a Scottish river to its source in the Cairngorm mountains.
