The Devils Plantation

From Elemental Films

Following the sell-out premiere of The Devil's Plantation feature film at the Glasgow Film Festival 2013, Elemental Films now publishes the complementary iOS App: developed from her Creative Scotland Award and BAFTA winning website, writer/director, May Miles Thomas, brings her acclaimed vision of her native city to the iPad. 

The Devil's Plantation is a unique adventure, a haunting psychogeographic journey into the past and a true fairytale for today. Following in the footsteps of two real-life protagonists, the user maps a journey across historic and contemporary Glasgow to discover a long-forgotten secret.

…a serious work of art, and arguably as seminal a portrait of Glasgow as the novel, The Dear Green Place, the film, Red Road, or Joseph McKenzie’s photographic collection, Gorbals Children. (Scotland on Sunday)

In the 1980s archaeologist Harry Bell came to believe that Glasgow - a city built and re-built on over centuries - was laid out to a hidden design. For years he investigated the lost corners and invisible history of the landscape, plotting his Secret Geometry.

Unknown to Harry, psychiatric patient Mary Ross also wandered the city, visiting many of the same significant places. Her medical case file reveals a poignant quest to understand her troubled past and present.

The Devil's Plantation unites the lives of these two strangers. By retracing their steps to complete the work Harry left unfinished at the time of his death, the App extends the possibilities for storytelling in contemporary media. The map, 66 films and 66 story chapters combine in unique order to provide a wholly original and individual experience of the characters' intertwined lives and of the extraordinary city they inhabit.

'Fascinating'   The Guardian Pick of the Week

5 Stars   Apps Magazine

Available worldwide, £2.99 (or equivalent), requires iOS 4.3 or later: please visit devilsplantation.co.uk for more details, screenshots and links.

The Devil's Plantation is published by Elemental Films Ltd (elementalfilms.co.uk), the production company of director May Miles Thomas (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Miles_Thomas).