Antony Crook began his career in photography, with work featured in The Face, Dazed & Confused, British Vogue, i-D and The New York Times. His subjects have included Barack Obama, David Hockney, Yoko Ono and David Byrne, and his prints are held in numerous private and public collections.
He later moved into film, developing a restrained, naturalistic style through work for clients including Porsche, BMW, Samsung, Rapha, Adidas, Cadillac, Oakley and New Balance. His long-standing interest in automotive culture has led to an ongoing body of car work, including Sound and Driven, a series made with Porsche and Marvin Jarrett at the renowned Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles. This was followed by a collaboration between Porsche and New York City Ballet, and more recently by work for Jeep in partnership with Marvel.
Alongside his commercial work, Antony directed and edited the feature documentary If the Stars Had a Sound, about Glaswegian post-rock band Mogwai, his long-time collaborators. The film premiered at SXSW and went on to screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival and Sheffield DocFest, marking Antony’s move into feature-length filmmaking.
Building on the film’s connection to Scotland, its landscape and its culture, Antony is now making The Living Mountain, a major feature film inspired by Nan Shepherd’s landmark book and her relationship with the Cairngorms. Combining landscape, performance, music and documentary, the film explores Shepherd’s life and the continuing relevance of her ideas about nature, attention and how we experience the world.
