“Dear Dad”

dear dad

 

On Father’s Day amidst the celebrations that a few of you may be enjoying, take some time out to watch this beautifully poignant and elegiac film by Robin Haig exploring the ties of birth to land and father.

Set in the remote glens of the Scottish Highlands, this is a brave and moving glimpse of one young woman’s reflections on her early life and the legacy that she has inherited and tries to understand.

It’s a deeply personal exploration of loss, change and all that stays the same.

 

Author — John Macpherson

John MacPherson was born and lives in the Scottish Highlands. He trained as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, before completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and then qualified as a Social Worker in Disability Services. Along the way he has cooked on canal barges, trained as an Alpine Ski Leader & worked as an Instructor for Skiers with disabilities, been a canoe instructor, and tutor of night classes in carpentry, stained glass design and manufacture, and archery. He has travelled extensively on various continents, undertaking solo trips by bicycle, or motorcycle. He has had narrow escapes from an ambush by terrorists, been hit by lightning, caught in an erupting volcano, trapped in a mobile home by a tornado, kidnapped by a dog's hairdresser, rammed by a basking shark and was once bitten by a wild otter. He has combined all this with professional photography, which he has practised for over 35 years. He teaches photography and acts as a photography guide & tutor in the UK and abroad. His biggest challenge is keeping his 30 year old Land Rover 110 on the road. He loves telling and hearing stories.

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