Russell Adam Morton

Camera

Russell Adam Morton makes films, performances and is a professional cinematographer. He is a graduate from the Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts (2010) and obtained an MA in Fine Arts from Camberwell College of the Arts, UAL (2012).

Full biography

His first ﬁlm, The Silent Dialogue of All Artworks was screened at the National Museum of Singapore’s 10th Singapore Short Cuts, the Substation’s 4th Experimental Film Forum and the Thai Short Film & Video Festival 2014. The ﬁlm went on to win Best Experimental Film at the 5th Singapore Short Film Awards. His second ﬁlm, The Forest of Copper Columns won the Cinematic Achievement Award at the Thessaloniki Short Film Festival 2016 and was selected for several festivals including the Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, SEAShorts and Short Shorts Film Festival 2017. Russell was also the director of photography for Ang Song Ming’s Recorder Rewrite, Singapore’s entry to the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2020, the Asian Film Archive commissioned Russell to make Saudade, a short film set against the exultant Eurasian imaginations about the loss and displacement of the community's language, Kristang.

Known for

Forest of Copper Columns

2017 · Director

Saudade

2020 · Director

Directed

Between Beginnings: Donna Ong

2021 · Director

Saudade

2020 · Director

Forest of Copper Columns

2017 · Director

The Silent Dialogue of All Artworks

2013 · Director

Acting

6.4

Stranger Eyes

2024 · Toddler Daddy

In development

Mystic & Momok

Director