Cinematographer
Russell Adam Morton
13 films
Russell Adam Morton makes films, performances and is a professional cinematographer. He is a graduate from the Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts (2010) and obtained an MA in Fine Arts from Camberwell College of the Arts, UAL (2012). His first film, The Silent Dialogue of All Artworks was screened at the National Museum of Singapore’s 10th Singapore Short Cuts, the Substation’s 4th Experimental Film Forum and the Thai Short Film & Video Festival 2014. The film went on to win Best Experimental Film at the 5th Singapore Short Film Awards. His second film, The Forest of Copper Columns won the Cinematic Achievement Award at the Thessaloniki Short Film Festival 2016 and was selected for several festivals including the Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, SEAShorts and Short Shorts Film Festival 2017. Russell was also the director of photography for Ang Song Ming’s Recorder Rewrite, Singapore’s entry to the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2020, the Asian Film Archive commissioned Russell to make Saudade, a short film set against the exultant Eurasian imaginations about the loss and displacement of the community's language, Kristang.
Best known for
Filmography 13
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
2025 · Cinematography
On Dekkoo
Kopitiam Days
2025 · Cinematography
Stranger Eyes
2024 · Toddler Daddy
On Kanopy
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
2024 · Cinematography
In My Mother's Skin
2023 · Cinematography
On Amazon Prime Video
#LookAtMe
2022 · Cinematography
On Hoopla
Saudade
2020 · Director
An Invocation to the Earth
2020 · Cinematography
Pontianak
2018 · Cinematography
Killuminati
2018 · Cinematography
Upside Down Polaroid
2018 · Cinematography
Forest of Copper Columns
2017 · Director
Chamber of Ox
2014 · Cinematography