Projects with status: Complete

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This project focused on the physicality of screens, interrogating how we experience and engage with the immaterial. The feeling of overstimulation, prompted by the flashing of lights and blaring of speakers is what I aimed to capture in my film, envisioning how this overload of stimuli travels to the brain.

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When working class Zoe meets her best mate’s more privileged friends, she tries to ignore the chip on her shoulder and make a good impression. But when a single-use plastic bag comes to life and hunts down the group one by one, Zoe must face her inner rage head-on. Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival 2023 - International premiere

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A paranoid character study of the dark-side of childhood and the vulnerable kids on both sides of a deliberate and unforgivable act of cruelty. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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A mythical short film that charts the journey of a priestess attempting to cross the threshold between mortal and immortal worlds in search of resources for her ailing world. In this liminal space, she meets a group of deities called Smoke Jumpers, who are custodians of ancestral knowledge who trade the secrets of the fire rituals but warn her about their practical use.

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Seen through the eyes of Sam, we are taken on a journey through the loveliest of days. A glorious family gathering in a perfect English summer garden. There’ll be lunch under the mulberry tree, wine, games and dancing. And then, of course, this being a party, there’ll be a surprise. BAFTA Film Awards 2024 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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For 50 years, iconic activist Ted Brown has fought for queer and black identities. But after his partner suffers homophobic abuse in a care home, a devastated Ted questions the impact of his activism. Official selection Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A 16mm comedy following a trio of Dandies who steal a colonial artefact from the Albert Museum and attempt to return it to Pakistan. Their plan soon unravels when they find themselves dealing with the complicated legacy of partition and the reality of 'guerrilla museum repatriation'.

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THE FLESH OF LANGUAGE draws connections between zoological research related to the extinct ‘Irish Elk’, parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive’s EVP tape recordings and tactics of media preservation as explained by an archivist. Analogies are drawn between extinct deer and dying media formats which come head to head in a choreographed, exuberant species-resurrection scene. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Early one winter morning in the rural town of Rhuthun in North Wales, three men are called upon once again to carry out a terrible assignment on the Bwlch Pen Barras mountain pass.

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A former filmmaker is haunted by his failed final film, and the ending it lacked. He brings his partner into the film and his life of ten years ago, before they met. There he unearths some home truths that have not been resolved in his relationship as seeks to find his true inner solace within film or family.

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Title (Year) Director. Place is a documentary in the celebratory style of Free Cinema, displaying an intimate portrait of Alan Goble, an obsessed octogenarian with many interests but one passion: to detail, every film ever made anywhere in the world from the earliest days of cinema to the present. Now a widower, he reflects on his effortful accomplishment, which has been awarded a Guinness Record as the world's largest film-related database. We also observe him in a moment of relaxation, watching over his garden, rewilded more than forty years ago, where, every evening, generations of badgers snuffle for food, and fox cubs play in the long grass. And, through his own movies, we can observe his progress, from a Saturday morning cinema-going childhood through work and marriage to his solitary existence in a book-lined home, where he continues to find solace in his archival activities. It offers the story of his and our time through a close-up view of an unusual, extraordinary, and individual life.

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A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man "To the Brink". Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023