Original Night

Name: Original Night
Director: Alisdair Asmussen Doyle
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Released: 2026-06-18
Duration: 29 min
Cast: Mark Barrett, Robert Firth, Simon Weir

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2026 · 29 min · Documentary · Mystery

Overview

Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.

Directed by Alisdair Asmussen Doyle

Cast

Mark Barrett — The Actor
Robert Firth — The Narrator
Simon Weir — The Animal Trainer