{{short description|Scottish film director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
'''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== From a family of stage actors, Yule studied film at the University of Glasgow and later at the University of Bristol.<ref name="Knowles 2010">{{cite web |last1=Knowles |first1=Kim |title=Beyond the Frame - Artist or Film Maker |url=https://sca-net.org/events/view/beyond-the-frame-artist-or-film-maker |website=Scottish Contemporary Art Network |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501035421/https://sca-net.org/events/view/beyond-the-frame-artist-or-film-maker |archive-date=1 May 2017 |location=Glasgow, Scotland |date=30 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Portrait of the Academic as a Student: Eleanor Yule |url=https://falwriting.com/new-blog/2018/2/20/portrait-of-the-academic-as-a-student-eleanor-yule |website=Falmouth English & Creative Writing Community |publisher=Falmouth University |access-date=13 March 2020 |location=Falmouth, Cornwall |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200313192642/https://falwriting.com/new-blog/2018/2/20/portrait-of-the-academic-as-a-student-eleanor-yule |archive-date=13 March 2020 |date=22 February 2018}}</ref> Her first film credit was as a director for ''A Small Deposit'', produced by Paul Homes.<ref name="White 2011">{{cite news |last1=White |first1=Alison |title=Live Q&A;: Thinking about a career in screenwriting? |url=http://www.theguardian.com/careers/career-in-screenwriting |access-date=13 March 2020 |date=18 November 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623123914/http://www.theguardian.com/careers/career-in-screenwriting |archive-date=23 June 2016 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gifford |first=Denis |title=The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHt0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5558 |edition=3rd |volume=1 |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon-on-Thames |isbn=978-1-317-83701-5 |page=5558}}</ref> The film was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1994 in the Short Film Category.<ref>{{cite web |title=BAFTA Awards Search: Short Film |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Short%20Film&f%5B0%5D=string_type%3AFilm&f%5B1%5D=string_category%3AShort%20Film&f%5B2%5D=string_category%3ABritish%20Short%20Film |website=BAFTA |publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529103607/http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Short%20Film&f%5B0%5D=string_type%3AFilm&f%5B1%5D=string_category%3AShort%20Film&f%5B2%5D=string_category%3ABritish%20Short%20Film |archive-date=29 May 2016 |location=London |date=2016}}</ref> 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<ref> {{cite book |last=Andreae |first=Christopher |title=Joan Eardley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8-o2S320XYC&pg=PA173 |date=2013 |publisher=Lund Humphries, Ashgate Publishing |location=Farnham, Surrey |isbn=978-1-84822-114-7 |page=173}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Omnibus |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46627882/omnibus-10-february-1998-london-uk/ |access-date=13 March 2020 |date=10 February 1998 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |page=46 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Perry |editor-first1=Chris |editor-last2=Coward |editor-first2=Simon |editor-last3=Down |editor-first3=Richard |title=The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJQACAAAQBAJ&pg=PA244 |date=2016 |publisher=Kaleidoscope Publishing |location=Handsworth Wood, Birmingham |isbn=978-1-900203-60-9 |chapter=(Christopher Lee's) Ghost Stories for Christmas |page=244}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Knowles 2010" /><ref name="White 2011" /> 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;<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b694n |website=BBC1 |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312015252/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b694n |archive-date=12 March 2012 |location=London |url-status=live |date=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaltenback |first1=Chris |title=Once a Python, Now a Cone-head |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46627971/kaltenback-chris-23-june-2002/ |access-date=13 March 2020 |date=23 June 2002 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore, Maryland |page=E-7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi'' (2005), about Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi;<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ccc2 |website=BBC1 |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225070253/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ccc2 |archive-date=25 February 2017 |location=London |url-status=live |date=2008}}</ref><ref name="Wiesener 2004">{{cite news |last1=Wiesener |first1=Kim |title=Palin laver program om Hammershøi |url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/art4888900/Palin-laver-program-om-Hammershøi |access-date=13 March 2020 |date=6 November 2004 |newspaper=Politiken |location=Copenhagen, Denmark |language=Danish |trans-title=Palin makes a Program about Hammershøi}}</ref> ''Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson'' (2012), chronicling the life of Finnish storyteller and painter Tove Jansson;<ref>{{cite web |title=Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgrk2 |website=BBC4 |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727172710/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgrk2 |archive-date=27 July 2018 |location=London |date=2012}}</ref> ''Michael Palin in Wyeth's World'', which focuses on the life of American painter Andrew Wyeth;<ref>{{cite web |title=Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03njgvc |website=BBC2 |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230030624/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03njgvc |archive-date=30 December 2013 |location=London |url-status=live |date=2013}}</ref> and ''Quest for Artemisia'' (2015) about Italian painter, Artemisia Gentileschi.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Palin in Wyeth's World |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06t3w73 |website=BBC4 |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216202553/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06t3w73 |archive-date=16 February 2019 |location=London |date=2015}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Knowles 2010" /><ref name="Wiesener 2004" /> In addition to her work in film and television, Yule gives lectures<ref name="Knowles 2010" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Seminar Series 6 Lecture 3 - Eleanor Yule |url=http://www.gcph.co.uk/events/49 |website=Glasgow Centre for Population Health |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207000021/http://www.gcph.co.uk/events/49 |archive-date=7 December 2013 |location=Glasgow, Scotland |date=16 February 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Introna 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Introna |first1=Arianna |title=Reveries of a Progressive Past: The Missing Scotland as Indyref Heritage |url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/content-images/JST_vol8.pdf |journal=Journal of Scottish Thought |volume=8 |publisher=University of Aberdeen |access-date=13 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801170713/https://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/content-images/JST_vol8.pdf |archive-date=1 August 2019 |location=Aberdeen, Scotland |date=2016 |issn=1755-9928 |pages=117–129}}</ref> She completed her PhD in 2017 and became a lecturer at Falmouth University, when she is not working on films.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ciontea |first1=Adriana |title=An Interview with Filmmaker Eleanor Yule |url=https://falwriting.com/new-blog/2017/3/29/an-interview-with-eleanor-yule |website=Falmouth English & Creative Writing Community |publisher=Falmouth University |access-date=13 March 2020 |location=Falmouth, Cornwall |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200313224952/https://falwriting.com/new-blog/2017/3/29/an-interview-with-eleanor-yule |archive-date=13 March 2020 |date=5 April 2017}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{imdb name|id=0950855|name=Eleanor Yule}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yule, Eleanor}} Category:Scottish women film directors Category:Living people Category:20th-century births Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Alumni of the University of Glasgow Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol Category:Alumni of the University of the West of Scotland Category:Academics of Falmouth University