About

Simon Aeppli, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a documentary and essay filmmaker whose work explores overlooked and marginal histories from the region’s troubled past. His films have screened at festivals and galleries across the UK and internationally.

He received an AHRC technē scholarship in 2019 for part-time PhD research at the University of Brighton on Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland, and a British Association for Irish Studies bursary in 2024. The film premiered at Docs Ireland in Belfast in 2025.

Simon has also created immersive audio heritage projects, including ghost trails for Farnham Town Council and Farnham Castle Trust, and the Aldershot Mixtape, funded by Rushmoor Borough Council, and the UCA Innovation Hub.

He is currently a part-time Senior Lecturer in BA Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Read British Association of Irish Studies Blog on Operation Bogeyman