Ed Morris
Ed Morris is a writer, director, photographer, and one of the most celebrated and decorated ad creatives of his generation. He's also a lovely bloke and a good mate.
My role
I've worked - and sometimes still work - with Ed on projects outside of advertising, including music, film, and photography. My role’s been creative sounding board, sense-maker (helping bring clarity to leftfield ideas), story editor, emotional support, 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. I'm honoured he trusts me to be his bouncer.
Film & Documentary
Creative sounding board and script/story 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.
Also worked as creative EP on his banned documentary about legendary film director and provocateur Tony Kaye.
Music Video
I co-commissioned and creatively EP'd Ed shaped projects for West Management. Ed's Massive Attack film, Come Near me (up 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 terrifyingly brilliant film, Killing Me, for We Are Shining, was championed by Noisy.
Ed also undertook several projects through XL Recordings, for Ibeyi and Richard Russell's Everything Is Recorded project, which I creatively EP'd.
Photography
I worked with Ed on his first photography book, Good As Gold, Beyond Awesome (designed by Paul Belford). Mainly as sounding board.
“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