Ed Morris
My Role
Ed Morris is a writer, director, photographer, and one of the most decorated ad creatives of his generation. I've worked with him as creative sounding board, sense-maker (helping bring clarity to leftfield ideas), story editor, and generator of projects. He's perfectly capable of doing it all on his own, but sometimes it's good to have someone to bounce off and I’m honoured to be his bouncer.
Movies & Docs
Story and script editor on Ed's debut feature How to Stop a Recurring Dream, which received 23 official selections at international festivals and won Best Feature at Aesthetica, Magnolia, and the British Urban Film Festival. Stars Ruby Barker (Bridgerton), features original music by Ibeyi, and was released on Apple TV.
Creative EP on his banned documentary about legendary film director and provocateur Tony Kaye.
Music Video
Co-commissioned and creatively EP'd Ed-shaped projects for West Management. Ed's Massive Attack film, Come Near Me (top), was one of four that helped the band win Best Video Artist at the UK Music Video Awards that year (2016). His film, Mad Lifeline, for Battlebox (Robert Del Naja's side project) was exhibited at the Hammer Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles. And his film, Killing Me, for We Are Shining, was championed by Noisey.
Creatively EP’d numerous Ed directed projects for XL for Ibeyi and Richard Russell's Everything Is Recorded.
Photography
Worked with Ed on his first photography book, Good As Gold, Beyond Awesome (designed by Paul Belford).
“Analytically constructive contribution to a project coupled with emotionally nurturing contribution to a project. The ability to support in both ways simultaneously is quite rare and extremely useful. Andy is often better at understanding the work of a lateral thinker than they are. Which makes him invaluable in a creative environment.”
Ed Morris