Film & Animation
An overview of single screen moving image projects
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Panser L’Inacceptable
A dreamy music video collaboration with artist Laetitia Sadier exploring inner and outer landscapes, feelings, memory, and healing
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AURA
Music video for artist Hatis Noit contextualising BFI archive films on Japan with new footage to explore notions of the past, present and a future
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Ichi:Marks In Time
This is a feature documentary, a story about culture, colonialism, and the power of photographs told by a community in West Africa.
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Lines, Faces, Fragments
A short documentary portrait of the Nigerian artist and ceramicist Ozioma Onuzulike filmed in Nsukka, Nigeria
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[Re]Entanglements
An exhibition exploring the legacies of colonialism in the present through the re-engagement with an early anthropological archive gathered in West Africa
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Unspoken stories
Five monologues performed by West African storytellers bring new narrative to a series of characters found in the photographs of a colonial archive
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You’ve Been Murdered
A music video for UK-based electronic recording artist Vulgar Flower exploring pleasure and pain, nature and the unnatural
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Painting with Sound
A short documentary portrait film about composer and audio-visual artist Tim Cowie commissioned by Sennheiser for the 2019 Berlin IFA Event
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Faces | Voices
Award-winning short documentary film that complicates any simple reading of a collection of images from the archives of colonial anthropologist N. W. Thomas
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Sound in pictures
An audio-visual art project exploring the history and processes of visual music and animation through a process of co-creation, workshops, and experimental live performance
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Tommynow: drive
Immersive audiovisual installation for the entrance of Tommy hilfiger’s Spring 2018 runway show at Milan Fashion week
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DMU : Designer Maker User
Film installation commissioned by The Design Museum in London for the entrance to the permanent exhibition on design that explores the relationship between designers, makers, and users
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Splice Festival
London’s first dedicated audio-visual performing arts festival co-created by the media arts community with the support of Creative Europe and Arts Council England
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LUMINOUS
Video design and creative direction for the British Film Institutes biannual Luminous fundraising gala at the Guild Hall in London
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BLINDSIDER
IDM music video developed from the live cinema performance project True Fictions featuring leading free-style NY rappers and produced by Scanone
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Sowei mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone
Short film bringing to life a collection of West African Sowie mask for an exhibit at the British Museum
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Added Value?
A collection of six documentary films exploring different designers and makers practices created for the UK Crafts Council’s touring exhibition ‘Added Value?’
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How Clubbing Changed The World
Title sequence for Channel 4 TV list show about the history of Club culture
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Helmet On Radar On
A Motorcycle safety film for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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SuperEverything*
A landmark live cinema performance project exploring the relationship between identity, ritual and place across the landscape of Malaysia commissioned by the British Council
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How Hip Hop Changed The World
Title sequence for Channel 4 commissioned TV show charting the history of Hip Hop and its impact of on popular culture
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CHASE & STATUS
Ground breaking concert video design featuring a stellar line up of guest vocalists for the now legendary UK drum and bass duo Chase & Status
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Be The Man
Music video for Brooklyn based folk singer Jo Williamson
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D&AD VISUALS
Event visuals exploring design and media production processes for the prestigious D&AD awards at the iconic Camden Roundhouse in London
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CRAFTCUBE
Touring installation project telling the story of a series of craft objects through pairs of documentary films and a enclosed space commissioned by the Crafts Council UK
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LDN-GH1
Short film featuring a track by DJ Food created to show case Panasonic’s new GH1 mirrorless camera by documenting life in London
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SCHLIMAZELTOV!
Award winning documentary short film exploring the concept of luck through a collection of voices from London’s Jewish community
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BLACKBERRY BOLD LAUNCH
Visual experience for the UK launch for the Blackberry Bold 3G mobile
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TRUTH MOVEMENTS
Short documentary film that unearths a tangled web of conspiracies and divergent views surrounding the events of 911
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HOME
Short film exploring the collective search for self through the notion of “home”, commissioned by Channel 4
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EIGHT QUESTIONS
A short animated film exploring environmental issues produced through a collaborative 10 day workshop in Sapporro Japan
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COLLECTING A KALEIDOSCOPE
a short documentary film for a touring exhibition that explores the personal collections of one of the crafts council’s founders: Ralph Turner
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JERWOOD APPLIED ARTS PRIZE
Collection of film portraits on 6 designers commissioned by the Crafts Council for the Jerwood Applied Arts prizes exhibition of jewellery
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THE LONGCUT TOUR VISUALS
Concert visuals for the Manchester Indy band ‘The Long Cut’
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THE CHIMERA PROJECT: NEWCASTLE & GATESHEAD
Co-created film project painting a portrait of a place and its culture, informed through a unique collaboration with local artists from Newcastle and Gateshead
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ZERO 7 TOUR VISUALS
Concert visuals for Zero 7’s UK National Tour
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THE LIVING SCREEN
Promotional film for proposed public art project in Camden Town designed by Ron Arad
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IN PASSING
Award winning animated digital short film exploring the psychogeography of inner city Manchester through the experiences of a partially sighted woman
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THE CHIMERA PROJECT: MIDDLESBROUGH
Digital film project mapping the city of Middlesborough created through a unique open source collaboration with local artists
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VENGEANCE VALLEY
An audio visual remix of a classic old western film created for Addictive TV’s Mixmasters series which was broadcast in the UK on ITV
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LG VU
A film made to communicate the concept for a wireless touch screen computer as a pitch to LG by the designer Ron Arad
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THE DRAKE MUSIC PROJECT
Creative workshops and a series of live performances with a group of disabled musicians working with the disablity charity Drake Music
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FASHION Motions Graphics
Visual mix of motion graphics produced for different fashion brands
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RE:COVERED TITLES
Title sequence for BBC1 music program
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THE CITY OF HOLLOW MOUNTAINS
Documentary short tracing the journey of a Venice Beach street philosopher from the west to the east coast of the USA
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THUMBNAIL EXPRESS
Experimental documentary short film tracing the tangential journeys of a Venice Beach street philosopher across the USA
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REEL 9
Audio visual track made for the Mixmasters TV series that deconstructs The Light Surgeons tools and processes
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U.N.K.L.E. Concert Visuals
CONCERT VISUALS for U.N.K.L.E. Dj sets & live shows promoting the seminal Psyence Fiction Ablum in 1999
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WALL CRAWLING INSECT BREAKS
Music video for the UK Hip-Hop and Jazz outfit The Herbalizer’s track Wall Crawling Insect Breaks, released on Ninja Tune
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SNEAKER PIMPS CONCERT VISUALS
Analog 16mm film and slide concert visuals for UK trip-hop pioneers The Sneaker Pimps
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MANTRA IDENT
Analog film motion graphics ident for UK label Mantra Records
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NINJA TUNE IDENTS
Analog film and slide motion graphic idents and club visuals created for legendary UK record label Ninja Tune