The Original Night

2025
20m

The Original Night is a 16mm artist film project documenting Scotland's waning population of wallabies. Located on Inchconnachan in Loch Lomond, a small colony of wallabies have resided on t... Read allThe Original Night is a 16mm artist film project documenting Scotland's waning population of wallabies. Located on Inchconnachan in Loch Lomond, a small colony of wallabies have resided on the uninhabited island since their introduction by the Countess of Arran in the 1940s; once... Read allThe Original Night is a 16mm artist film project documenting Scotland's waning population of wallabies. Located on Inchconnachan in Loch Lomond, a small colony of wallabies have resided on the uninhabited island since their introduction by the Countess of Arran in the 1940s; once part of her private collection of exotic animals. Almost a century later however, proposa... Read all

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Expected December 30, 2025

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Trivia
In the summer of 2023, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle began principle photography on his passion project, The Original Night - a mockumentary about the red-necked wallabies on the remote island of Inchconnachan, just off the shores of Loch Lomond, Scotland. These exotic marsupials were brought to the area in the 1940's as part of a private collection. During the filming, the cast and crew encountered rocky shorelines, and difficult terrain, as most of the land was carpeted in knee-deep sphagnum mosses. A full-blown infestation of the Scottish biting midge made the production even more unbearable. So much so, that one of the project's leads, Robert Firth, decided to incorporate the facial netting, safari hat, and long-sleeved gortex rain gear into the actual performance, as the character's choice of wardrobe.