Goat is an independent production company specialising in arts projects, documentary and dance on screen. It is a vehicle for the award-winning creative team of Katrina McPherson (choreographer/video dance-maker/producer) and Simon Fildes (editor/visual artist/producer). Their aim is to bring expertise and imagination to innovative and well-produced moving image, dance on screen, live performance, installation, web-based projects, and short courses and workshops for a wide range of groups and individuals.

Our most recent project CRUX is a new work based around the art of bouldering. Effort, dynamic, balance and style combine in a video exploration of  the failures and successes of four solo climbers, as each one tackles a challenging route on freestanding boulders at different Highland locations. Crux was commissioned by and is showing at Hannah McClure Centre, Dundee until end October 2009

Our last big 2006 -2009 project was the international award winning move-me.com project. Working with Ricochet Dance Productions, we created an interactive touring video booth to allow the creation of short video dance works for the web. Go to www.move-me.com to see where the booth toured to and what people have been doing in it. With over 200,000 website visitors, nearly 400,000 video views, 2,000 video clips on the site and around 10,000 people trying the booth out at the venues, the project is arguably the most high profile media arts and dance project out of the UK ever. 

The project traveled to Australia and New Zealand between May and November 2008 by invitation from ReelDance festival. Katrina and Simon traveled to Melbourne and Sydney for the early part of the tour as special guests of ReelDance to support the booth and give screenings, presentations and masterclasses.

At the end of 2007 Goat produced a Channel 4 Animate programme for the media artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead. See the work here.

We developed include Dance/Video/Improvisation with leading dance artist Kirstie Simson and the symposium Opensource{videodance} 2007. More information can be seen at the videodance.org.uk and the Bodysurf Scotland website, co-producers of these events at Findhorn Scotland.

Now available from Goat is a compilation of 5 video dance works selected from over a decade of Katrina and Simon making work together. It is a useful companion to the book 'Making Video Dance' (Routledge 2006) by Katrina McPherson. Available through most online book sellers.

We completed a15 minute film 'Girlband' with a group of teenagers from East Lothian. Go to www.girlband.org.uk for more information. Recently screened at IMZ Dancescreen at Den Haag contact us if you are interested in showing it or getting hold of a copy.

In 2005 we made a documentary for the This Scotland strand for STV, Scottish Screen and Grampian TV , called ‘Catching The Tide’,  See www.catchingthetide.com for more details.

Based in Glenferness, Nairnshire, Scotland, Goat has easy access to the Highlands, Central belt, London and beyond and works in collaboration with many other artists and organisations both nationally and internationally. Goat is fully equipped with filming and edit facilities,

With extensive experience in film, broadcast, arts and new media production, combined with with many years experience teaching at university education level and community and professional workshops, Simon and Katrina always aim to work to the highest professional and artistic standard.

Contact us if you would like to see a showreel or wish to discuss a project. enquiries@go-at.co.uk