my work seeks to bring together 16mm film with live art and experimental performance.
Elsewhere my films observe on encounters within often forgotten, hidden or overlooked communities and with individuals at the edges of society. Films that record broken or intangible narratives contained within historical objects or spaces. personal biographies including portraiture, in diaristic writing and recordings on different cognitive experience, including glass delusion and its relationship to hiv/aids, dementia and amnesia/memory-loss.
My films are formed through collaborative actions and grounded in the observational, I expore queerness, enclosure, the quotidian, doubt, delay, the unfinished, care, disappearance, blindness, collaging, the plural, blur, cameras as obstructions, lenses as objections, the diaristic and episodic, seeking to record the contingencies and matter of different kinds of lived experience and thoughts.
I have shot films with/for Luke Fowler, Wendy Kirkup, Mina Heydari-Waite, Khadea Santi, Rachel mcbrinn, hanna tuulikki, ayla dmyterko, tako taal, gemma dagger, annie crabtree, conor baird, gf ramsay, Alia Syed, michelle hannah and Hannan jones.
From time to time I write about film and the moving image. In the past I worked with live performance, publishing and event and exhibition-making.
The site was originally developed in 2017 in collaboration with artist Alex Tobin. http://tobinalex.com
