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His most recent film, Original Night, explores Scotland’s fading wallaby colony on Inchconnachan Island, Loch Lomond. Introduced in the 1940s by the Countess of Arran, the marsupials now face possible culling amid ongoing ecological controversy. Told in two semi-fictional acts, the film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies while reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals — from prehistoric cave art to early cinema — and linking the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
In 2025, he completed a practice-based doctorate, Beside, on the Other Side, at the Belfast School of Art. This research project explored This research the potential theoretical and practical applications of experimental moving image in human and physical geography, researching the spatial and temporal possibilities of dislocation and duality—of being here .and there. in place.
He is currently undertaking a FRART Research Project at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles – École supérieure des Arts (ARBA-ESA), titled L’Objectif de l’image. The research examines the ways in which lens-based apparatuses have imposed an optical rationality onto the landscape, particularly through the projection of linear structures across it.
Alongside his artistic practice, Alasdair works as a director of photography (DOP), shooting on Aaton XTR and Bolex SBM cameras. He has filmed for artists Rosa Barba, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Ben de Raes, Ingil Vaikla, among others.