Emily Harris – Director, camera operator.
Currently working across the UK and UAE (S/S 2024).
To view my film work, please visit Kreft Films
emilyharris.photo@gmail.com
+44 (0) 7969 435406
Since 2012, I've been using moving images to create video content and films, mostly focusing on heritage craftspeople in marine-related environments. Clients have included yacht brokers, marina owners, artists, boatbuilders, environmentalists and publications such as Wooden Boat [US], National Historic Ships (UK).
To browse my film work, please visit Kreft Films and see my latest project ‘This Woman’s Work’ below.
16:9 Digital portrait film, 2024
7 minutes 25 seconds
THIS WOMAN’S WORK
This Woman's Work is a portrait film of UK-based traditional boatbuilder Holly Latham. Through sound and image, it attempts to explore gender and power. Enduring observational footage of Holly building a wooden boat pleads for acceptance of a woman's calm and methodical craft. This short will be premiered on the Innovation stage at the 2024 Port Townsend Wooden Boatshow (US) on 8th September.
Shot in an afternoon in Holly's boatbuilding workshop in Cornwall, I wanted to shadow her at work. In contrast to the majority of my marine-related portfolio, this was the first time in my career that I could sit at length and observe a female boatbuilder working.
“Meditative to watch” - Belinda Joslin, Founder of Women in Boatbuilding
“beautiful and very peaceful and great to see this kind of work continuing” – Lucy Dale, Curator of Maritime History, Royal Museums Greenwich
“Each shot is wonderful. Her focus is wonderful too.” – David Moore, Artist & Principal Lecturer of photography, University of Westminster.