About ROBERT

From an early age Robert was turning his family holidays into full-on film shoots with late finishes and sunrise starts. Decades later and he's still at it, now colliding the disciplines of geography and filmmaking to tell stories that challenge existing narratives of identity, landscape, citizenship, surveillance and power.

A graduate in Directing from the National Film and Television School (where he was David Lean Scholar) Robert is also co-director of the creative studio Milkwood where he directs and edits films for brands and charities.

He has spent the last four years collaborating with the acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane on a cinematic documentary adaptation of the bestselling book ‘Underland’, which will premiere 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. Robert is also working on a number of other feature and installation projects, a mini series for Radio 3 as well as ‘And We Will Be Ghosts’, a collaborative project with fellow filmmaker Harry Macqueen which documents folklore, rites and rituals across the English landscape.

In addition to his work with Milkwood, Robert is part of the comedy collective Duke. He also lives on a boat.