Chris Bogle is a writer and filmmaker from Newcastle upon Tyne, and a doctoral candidate in fine art at Northumbria University. Working predominantly in short form, he employs fragmentary approaches to themes of classness, transgression, and mobilities. His fiction writing has been published in The Belfast Review, the Sans Press anthology The Last Five Minutes of the Storm, Litro Magazine, and Film Stories. In 2024 he was shortlisted for a New Writer’s award from New Writing North.
Through his practice Chris is exploring ways of learning and creating knowledge through briccolage, assemblages of textual fragments, and longer works of essay and fiction stylistically informed by the chaotic and unstructured cognitive diktats of ADHD. His PhD is a creative collection about the road, an attempt to lean into a neurodiverse methodology to fuse arts practice with a scholarly examination of the road and the car, and their significance as contemporary cultural icons.
Chris has also been making films for over two decades. After spending several years working as a trainee and assistant producer on features, shorts, and television productions including Harry Potter and The One and Only in the early 2000’s, he trained as an editor and director before forming his own production company. His subsequent film drama work has screened at festivals around the world including Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, Carmathern Bay Film Festival, and Reykjavik International Film Festival where he was nominated for the Golden Egg award for best emerging talent. Chris was invited onto the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival talent lab for his M.A. thesis film, The Rocketship, and was shortlisted for funding and took part in a mentored series of writing & development workshops through the BFI Scottish Shorts scheme.
During two decades of commercial practice Chris has produced and directed film work for clients including NASA, BMW, Newcastle University, and the Institute for Transplantation, and worked as a consultant and video producer with Epic Games for six years. In 2007 he won a Royal Television Society best producer award for his Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature campaign.