Seán Martin

Seán Martin is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He is the author of ;The Knights Templar, The Cathars, The Gnostics, The Black Death, Alchemy and Alchemists, A Short History of Disease ;and, for Kamera Books, ;Andrei Tarkovsky ;and ;New Waves in Cinema. His films include ;Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema ;(released by the BFI), ;Folie à Deux ;and a series of documentaries on the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: ;Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey ;(released by Criterion), ;The Dream in the Mirror ;(released by Criterion), ;The Last Dream: Andrei Tarkovsky and The Sacrifice ;and ;A Dream of Italy: Tarkovsky and Nostalghia. Martin won the Wigtown Poetry Prize in 2011, and his collection of poems, ;The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane, is published by Templar Poetry.