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Each ox was Ox
Short Film (2026) 
Director & Producer: Jack Ruthenberg



Two Glaswegian men unexpectedly find catharsis in a mystical old abattoir where they lose all personal memories except for local folklore.

With a script written from first-hand accounts of locals, led by a BAFTA Scotland winning actor and diverse Scottish crew, culminating in a free neighbourhood screening event: this is more than a film but a community project.

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House Fire 
Short Moving Image Film (2025)
Director/Editor: Jack Ruthenberg

Creative Producer: Breagha Charlton

Set in the aftermath of a family house burning to the ground in Oban, Scotland, the film is a meditative, wordless work about people, land and possessions.

Negative Fog 
Short film (In-development, 2025)

Written & Directed by Jack Ruthenberg
Set in Washington D.C, 1936, the film is a poetic reimagining of true events.
In a government photographic department set up to document the migrant workers during the 'Dustbowl Crisis', an intern and photographer (based on Dorothea Lange) discover their department are hole-punching undesirable negatives and heavily curating the image of the Great Depression.

The project is currently seeking further funding.

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The Pulse of Dye
Short film (2023)

Written & Directed by Jack Ruthenberg

In a local alterations shop, a tailor and his daughter confront his past when a shawl is dropped off with only a South African Rand note.

Shortlisted for Watersprites Film Festival 2024.
Selected for LiftOff Sessions 2023 and Student Live Festival in Paris 2023

velodoom
Experimental Horror Short (2022)

Directed & Edited
by Jack Ruthenberg


 

The Tattoo House
Short film (2021)

Written & Directed by Jack Ruthenberg

O Dançarino de Concreto
Dance film (2020)

Directed by Jack Ruthenberg
Performer: Fabioso

 

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