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Eleanor Yule is a Scottish film director, best known for her feature film Blinded and her television documentaries with Michael Palin. She also directed Ghost Stories for Christmas a TV mini-series with Christopher Lee for BBC2.

Biography

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From a family of stage actors, Yule studied film at the University of Glasgow and later at the University of Bristol.[1][2] Her first film credit was as a director for A Small Deposit, produced by Paul Homes.[3][4] The film was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1994 in the Short Film Category.[5] In 1996, she directed Weathering the Storm for BBC 2, a documentary produced by May Miller about the lives of painters Joan Eardley and June Redfern[6] and in 1998, she directed A Love Exposed for BBC1, which highlighted the career and relationship of Pierre Bonnard and his painter, muse, wife Marthe de Méligny.[7] In 2000 she directed four episodes — The Stalls Of Barchester, The Ash Tree, Number 13, and A Warning To The Curious — of the BBC Scotland produced series Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas.[8]

Yule has worked with Michael Palin, former member of the comedy troupe Monty Python, directing a series of films, Palin on Art about people in the art world whose stories have been untold.[1][3] Among their topics have been Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse (2003), which highlighted the story of French painter Henri Matisse and the Cone sisters, who collected his works;[9][10] Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi (2005), about Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi;[11][12] Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson (2012), chronicling the life of Finnish storyteller and painter Tove Jansson;[13] Michael Palin in Wyeth's World, which focuses on the life of American painter Andrew Wyeth;[14] and Quest for Artemisia (2015) about Italian painter, Artemisia Gentileschi.[15]

Yule's first feature film was produced in 2004 and was inspired by her work with Palin on Hammershøi. When they had completed that film, he went to the Himalayas to work on another project and she wrote the screenplay for Blinded. Set in Denmark, and with one of the main characters named for the painter she tried to capture his painting imagery in the love story, which starred Peter Mullan and Jodhi May.[1][12] In addition to her work in film and television, Yule gives lectures[1][16] and co-wrote The Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism (2014) with David Manderson of the University of the West of Scotland, where she was completing her PhD under his supervision.[17] She completed her PhD in 2017 and became a lecturer at Falmouth University, when she is not working on films.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Knowles, Kim (30 July 2010). "Beyond the Frame - Artist or Film Maker". Scottish Contemporary Art Network. Glasgow, Scotland. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Portrait of the Academic as a Student: Eleanor Yule". Falmouth English & Creative Writing Community. Falmouth, Cornwall: Falmouth University. 22 February 2018. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b White, Alison (18 November 2011). "Live Q&A;: Thinking about a career in screenwriting?". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  4. ^ Gifford, Denis (2017). The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. p. 5558. ISBN 978-1-317-83701-5.
  5. ^ "BAFTA Awards Search: Short Film". BAFTA. London: British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 2016. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. ^ Andreae, Christopher (2013). Joan Eardley. Farnham, Surrey: Lund Humphries, Ashgate Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-84822-114-7.
  7. ^ "Omnibus". The Guardian. London. 10 February 1998. p. 46. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Perry, Chris; Coward, Simon; Down, Richard, eds. (2016). "(Christopher Lee's) Ghost Stories for Christmas". The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013. Handsworth Wood, Birmingham: Kaleidoscope Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-900203-60-9.
  9. ^ "Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse". BBC1. London: BBC. 2003. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  10. ^ Kaltenback, Chris (23 June 2002). "Once a Python, Now a Cone-head". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. E-7. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi". BBC1. London: BBC. 2008. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  12. ^ a b Wiesener, Kim (6 November 2004). "Palin laver program om Hammershøi" [Palin makes a Program about Hammershøi]. Politiken (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson". BBC4. London: BBC. 2012. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson". BBC2. London: BBC. 2013. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Michael Palin in Wyeth's World". BBC4. London: BBC. 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  16. ^ "Seminar Series 6 Lecture 3 - Eleanor Yule". Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Glasgow, Scotland. 16 February 2010. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  17. ^ Introna, Arianna (2016). "Reveries of a Progressive Past: The Missing Scotland as Indyref Heritage" (PDF). Journal of Scottish Thought. 8. Aberdeen, Scotland: University of Aberdeen: 117–129. ISSN 1755-9928. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  18. ^ Ciontea, Adriana (5 April 2017). "An Interview with Filmmaker Eleanor Yule". Falmouth English & Creative Writing Community. Falmouth, Cornwall: Falmouth University. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
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