We’re Still Here
Made over 4 years, We’re Still Here is a feature-length documentary with residents and activists from all over London fighting for their homes and for their rightful place in the city. The film premiered at Sheffield DocFest in 2021.
The End of the World
How do we relate to the concept of climate catastrophe on a personal level? The filmmaker draws a parallel between various threats of climate change and her own visceral and emotional experience of grieving after an immense and sudden loss, questioning her capacity to care about humanity yet nonetheless showing a glimmer of hope for […]
Temporal Evocation
In a world where everything is consumed at such a fast place slow looking can be an alien concept to many. Devoid of the punctum of popular films, slow cinema is both a challenge and a meditation. This radical slowing down challenges the viewer to address their expectations of the medium, the temptation to rush […]
Plutopia
Plutopia is influenced by the French sociologist Jacques Ellul’s discourse on ‘technique’ – defined as “all refined methods that impose absolute efficiency in every human field of activity” in his seminal work ‘The Technological Society’ (1964). The video contains musings by Ellul in which he outlines the history of technique and technology and its consequences […]
No More Beyond
No More Beyond is a video essay about boundaries filmed in the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in northern Morocco, where 11.5 km of heavily patrolled triple wire fence separate EU territory from migrants who are trying to enter. The project takes its title from the city’s motto: Non Plus Ultra. This phrase and […]
Maurice El Medioni: The Birth of PianOriental
The music of the dispossessed. A feature film about the life, musical influences and music of the Godfather of PianOriental. His left hand plays Boogie, his right hand plays Rai. “Jews and Arabs share the same musical story. We, the Moors, Arabs and Jews were kicked out of Spain in 1492 and in our baggage was […]
Mass Tresspass
Mass Trespass is a documentary short about the Kinder Trespass of 1932. An event in the Peak District that helped pave the way for our right to roam on mountain and moorland throughout the UK. A shining example of how mass action and protest can bring about great change around the world. Featuring interviews from […]
Landscape with water
This film is influenced by a comment by the British painter Paul Nash in 1938 in which he wrote about what he called invisible landscapes. The upper image is a shot of a landscape where a stream crosses a ford. The images in the sequence below are close-up shots of the surface of the water. […]
Hankyō
Hankyō was comissioned as a creative response to The Mitori Project, a comparative study exploring end of life issues in the UK and Japan, led by the University of Glasgow (2019-2020). Inspired by writer and composer John Cage, Hankyō uses a process known as ‘writing through’ to generate ‘mesostic’ poems in English and Japanese. Chance […]
DOGS ON FIRE
DOGS ON FIRE is an experimental moving image work about displaced violence in the global meat trade. The title is inspired by eyewitness accounts of indigenous peoples that were forced from their lands to rear beef that is then exported to European markets. In the accounts, they told of how the paramilitaries clearing the lands […]