Filmmaker · Torbay, UK
About me
Based in Torbay, Ash Dakota is an emerging filmmaker who primarily explores themes of time, memory, and ephemeral youth. Having recently completed a Creative Media Production course at South Devon College, he creates narrative documentaries with a visual style deeply rooted in 90s themes — using a mixture of vintage and modern camera equipment. His approach to filmmaking is to treat every shot like a photograph.
The South West coastline shapes much of his work: long afternoons, borrowed light, and the quiet spaces in between. Films are often built from fragments — home video, voiceover, still images — stitched together until a feeling becomes legible.
Selected films
His repertoire currently spans four films, each a different angle on growing up and making sense of the present.
- This Is How I'll Remember Us
- the first 18 years of my life
- (5 Ways Of) Killing Time
- The Refuge of Failed Artists
The Refuge of Failed Artists, his most recent film, surrounds the topic of AI and its impact on the creative industry — drawing parallels between current times and the mid-19th century.
Beyond film
Alongside moving image work, Ash practices cyanotype and still photography. The same attention to texture, tone, and imperfection runs through both — whether on 16mm, digital, or paper soaked in ferric ammonium citrate.
He is available for hire across the South West on short films, documentaries, music videos, and commission work.