About

Daniel Hughes is a filmmaker, video designer and technician working in visual art, film and theatre.

His recent work includes filming, editing, colour/post-finishing, creative captioning design and consulting on film projects in the visual arts; installing films as an AV technician in the visual arts; and video design and creative captioning design in theatre.

Daniel as a small child sitting at an early home computer desk

Recent work

  • 2024, Extraordinary Trash dir. Stewart Laing, written by Pamela Carter, with Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024, theatre performance, video designer. Edinburgh
  • 2024, The Ghost of Alexander Blackwood dir. Benadetta Iametti, written by Nadia Nadarajah, with Edinburgh Deaf Festival, theatre performance, caption designer. Edinburgh
  • 2024, Pillory, Pillocks! by Edward Gwyn Jones with for PLATFORM 24 at Edinburgh Art Festival 2024, film, director of photography. Glasgow
  • 2024, After Kinte dir. Tako Taal at Glasgow International 2024, theatre performance live stream, filmmaker, editor. Glasgow
  • 2024, Farang dir. Mina Heydari-Waite at Glasgow International 2024, film, filmmaker, editor. Glasgow
  • 2024, Pied Piper dir. Conrad Murray with Battersea Arts Centre at Southbank Centre, theatre performance, creative caption designer, video technician. London
  • 2024, Installing a film in a gallery at University College London, lecture and workshop. London
  • 2024, Get Off dir. Katy Baird at Battersea Arts Centre, live art performance, captioner. London
  • 2024, Svikiro by Sekai Machache, Pavillion of Zimbabwe at the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, film, colourist, visual effects. Venice
  • 2024, Buttercup by Sarah Browne at Sirius Arts Centre, film, caption designer. Cork
  • 2024, Create Dangerously by Alberta Whittle with National Galleries of Scotland, exhibition documentation film. Filming and editing, Edinburgh
  • 2023, poem without a heroine, by Ksenia Ravvina and company at Theater im Delphi, devised theatre performance, collaborator, video designer. Berlin
  • 2023, A Radical Duet by Onyeka Igwe, film, animated caption designer.
  • 2023, John by Thomas Abercromby, film with Collective Gallery. Photography, editing, colour grade, AV Install Technician. Edinburgh
  • 2023, The Last Born – making room for ancestral transmissions by Alberta Whittle, performance with Edinburgh Art Festival. Documentation filming and editing. Edinburgh
  • 2023, Glasgow Zine Fest with Glasgow Zine Library, hybrid festival. Hybrid technician. Glasgow
  • 2023, Present Futures festival curated by Colette Sadler in association with Feral, performance festival. Documentation, Glasgow
  • 2023, Alien Species by Dudendance, performance. Promotional film, Scotland
  • 2023, The Making of Pinocchio by Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill, performance with Festival Theaterformen. Caption design in German. Hanover
  • 2023, Create Dangerously by Alberta Whittle, exhibition with National Galleries of Scotland. AV Technician. Edinburgh
  • 2023, BUZZCUT 2023 Festival, festival. Caption design, video technician, live camera technician. Glasgow
  • 2023, Climate Grief Karaoke by Katy Dye, performance. Video Design, Trailer Design. UK
  • 2023, Hairy Beast by Theo Seddon, performance. Poster Image. Glasgow
  • 2023, On Clogger Lane by Andrew Black with LUX Scotland for Margaret Tait Award 2021, film. Editor, Post-Finishing Artist, Colourist. Glasgow
  • 2023, Into The New Festival with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, festival. Video Documentation. Glasgow
  • 2022, Rocabarraigh by Thomas Abercromby with Market Gallery, film. Filmmaker, Consultant, AV Technician. Scotland
  • 2022, Growing Up B(r)ent by Ed Webb-Ingall for Brent Biennal, radio play exhibition. Caption Designer. London
  • 2022, The Making of Pinocchio by Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill at Battersea Arts Centre, performance. Caption Designer and Programmer. London