SOUP Audiovisual is a film art collective co-founded by filmmakers, Dan McKay and Adam Radage, in collaboration with sound designer, Tom Bosher. Our work merges science, slowness, cinematography, and sound to explore the marvels of our planet through immersive storytelling.
We live in a complex world, diversity is everywhere, not only in terms of living forms, but also our responses to environmental issues, the human condition and global culture in the age of technology. SOUP explores the spectacle of our planet, the meeting point of science, spirit and creativity, and the complex relationship between us and nature through the stories we tell.
Having met in Falmouth during their Masters in Film and Television Production, it was immediately obvious that Adam and Dan would make films together. Through their individual backgrounds in science and art, and acknowledging a shared love for nature, their desire is to combine their skills to explore alternative ways of art and expression, including human culture and interaction, the science of the universe and natural history filmmaking.
The audiovisual work of SOUP explores tactility and altered states through the meshing of DoP, Adam, and director, Dan’s imagery with complex sound design and scores composed by Tom Bosher. Dan and Tom met in Exeter in 2019 and have been closely collaborating ever since. SOUP is the first shared venture of all three filmmakers.
Dan’s core creative interests are soundscape, slowness, and sensory cinema. As a practitioner and academic researcher, he probes the ways in which haptic filmmaking can create complex, preverbal affects in the body of the viewer, and the ways in which sensory engagement with experimental film can promote deeply immersive and transformative experiences. He is interested in education through film and expanding the conventions of academic engagement through experimentation.
Adam is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker with a passion for showcasing the world’s natural diversity as meaningfully and truthfully as possible. From a youth spent exploring ponds that lead to a career in ecology and conservation, his goal in life is to blend scientific insight with artistic storytelling, to play with explorative and experimental modes of delivery, and inspire a greater appreciation for wildlife conservation.
Tom is at root intrigued by the implementation of sound as an instrument of emotional affectation. After studying English literature at Exeter, he discovered sound design as an alternate means of eliciting personal resonances within a non-verbal language system, the cinematic. Realising how fruitful audiovisual language is for enabling visceral emotional evocations, as well as unpicking complex ideas, Tom found the Masters course in Sound Design at the NFTS where he is currently studying.
SOUP’s mission is to creatively explore, radically exhibit, and passionately articulate our fascination with the miracles and mysteries of the natural world through the coalescence of the filmmakers’ specialist, and collectively wide-ranging, skillsets.