"After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more...Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini." Roger Ebert

It's a claim made about, and by, many, but Errol Morris is a cinematic original.

Morris first broke onto the scene in the late 1970's with his portrait of a pet cemetery on the verge of bankruptcy, Gates of Heaven.

The film was inspired a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle, and fellow iconoclast Werner Herzog considered it so unlikely a documentary subject that he offered to eat his shoe if it ever made it to the big screen.

As famously recorded in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, the rest is cinematic history.

Following his sophomore feature Vernon, Florida (a fascinating study of the, frankly, bizarre residents of a swamp town), Morris found himself in limbo, unable to secure funding for a feature.

During this period he briefly became a private detective, and used his new found skills to full effect in his next feature, 1988's The Thin Blue Line.

The film concerned the case of Randall Adams, a man wrongly sentenced to death for killing a police officer, and was fundamental in securing his release.

The groundbreaking documentary was visually stunning and used re-enactments  and multiple viewpoints, making the viewer question the perception of 'fact'.

Morris switched tack for A Brief History of Time, a study of the life and work of Stephen Hawking, scooping the Grand Jury prize at 1992's Sundance Film Festival.

He finally lifted the Documentary Feature Oscar in 2004 for The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara, telling the story of the former Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

His latest feature, Standard Operating Procedure, is typically Morris - an unflinching investigation into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The film has already won the Silver Bear at Berlin, and receives its UK Premiere at this year's Festival.

Herzog himself wonders at Morris' skill, having recently seen the film.

"We know the photos, and we know the events and we know the dramas behind it. And yet I always walk out feeling that I have seen a feature film, a fiction film."

That he continues to startle his contemporaries speaks volumes for Morris' talent, and he shouldn't be missed at the excluive In Person event.

Take advantage of our Errol Morris ticket deal! Get Errol Morris: In Person and his latest film, Standard Operating Procedure, for only £12 - saving 33% on the regular ticket price.

Offer is only available in person at Filmhouse box office or by calling 0131 623 8030. Offer only available on full price tickets until 4 June.