James joined The Light Surgeons in 2000 and has contributed to a wide range of projects, editing, directing and collaborating on live AV performances. He worked for several years as a freelance documentary film maker with Lenka Clayton and is currently working on some short films for C4. He also lectures in video for Brighton University.
Immersive audio-visual performance featuring Idris Elba celebrating the importance of film for the British Film Institute’s first Luminous Gala fund raising event in London
Audio-visual installation commissioned by the Horniman Museum exploring peoples perception of each other through dress in the city
LDN24 was a audio-visual art commission for the Museum of London that presented an anthropomorphic portrait of the city over a 24 hour cycle using film, sound and data
Short film featuring a track by DJ Food created to show case Panasonic’s new GH1 mirrorless camera by documenting life in London
Short documentary film that unearths a tangled web of conspiracies and divergent views surrounding the events of 911
A short animated film exploring environmental issues produced through a collaborative 10 day workshop in Sapporro Japan
Media art exhibition at the OXO Barge House building on London’s Southbank exploring the thresholds between public and private space
a collection of photographic lamda prints exploring Transitions, boundaries and thresholds around the world
Live cinema performance project exploring truth and myth across the state of New York, created in collaboration with a group of New York musicians and in dialog with Native American communities
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
video art installation for the entrance of bloomberg’s london hq
Concert visuals for Zero 7’s UK National Tour
Digital film project mapping the city of Middlesborough created through a unique open source collaboration with local artists
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
Creative workshops and a series of live performances with a group of disabled musicians working with the disablity charity Drake Music
Visual mix of motion graphics produced for different fashion brands
Title sequence for BBC1 music program
360 degree immersive environment created for Architect & Designer Ron Arad’s exhibit at the Milan Furniture Fair
Land mark live cinema performance that weaves a kaleidoscopic audio-visual journey around the world through documentary film footage, analog slides and 16mm to reveal a series of contrasting views
Documentary short tracing the journey of a Venice Beach street philosopher from the west to the east coast of the USA
Audio visual track made for the Mixmasters TV series that deconstructs The Light Surgeons tools and processes
