A formally inventive documentary dives into Aberdeen’s fishing history, where oral memory, labour and extraction meet.
Blending oral history, re-enactment, archival research and graphic illustration, Bone a Cod explores Aberdeen’s fishing industry through hardship, humour and strange beauty.
Moving between personal memory and working history, this speculative documentary reflects on the labour that shaped coastal lives.
Film Details
Country: Scotland, UK
Year: 2026
Running time: 16 minutes
Language: English, Scots and Doric, with English subtitles
Screened at LandxSea
LandxSea Film Festival 2026
12 September 2026 · Montrose Playhouse
Special guest: Director Marie-Chantal Hamrock
About the Filmmaker
Marie-Chantal Hamrock
Marie-Chantal Hamrock is a visual artist and writer based in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is a PhD candidate at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. Blurring the line between the real and the imagined, Marie-Chantal’s work explores themes such as gender, social class and peripheral places, to create speculative narratives of past, present and future. Her project Speculative Intersections: Class, Place and Gender in the North-East of Scotland’s Maritime Cultures explores the fishing industry in the North East of Scotland through speculative fiction.