ABOUT

I am an artist filmmaker. Part of my daily practice is to film with whatever camera is to hand, to slow down and deepen my attention as a type of care. For over twenty-five years I have used my cameras to have a personal, ongoing conversation with the world around me. I use my lenses as fingertips to trace the light and the air, and to hone into what emerges with looking. I use my uncertainties always as a starting point, generating footage as pages of a filmic sketch book.

My core working process uses and reuses this expanding reservoir of vibrant images. It is a quiet, personal rebellion that attempts to protect my sensitivity, and to look after the things I see in our flimsy and devastating world. I try to feel my way as a filmmaker, a woman and a mother, embracing how these shifting experiences can overlap and inform each other.

I co-founded a 48 seat independent cinema The Electric Palace in Hastings, UK. For over twenty years I curated a year-round programme of films and events supporting film-lovers and filmmakers, finally stepping down in 2023.

I completed a PhD in film by practice with Exeter University and The London Film School in 2022, in which I developed a filmmaking methodology through studying the essays of Michel De Montaigne. I formed Dear Future Films in 2023, a Community Interest Company creating films, live film-mixing projects and workshops. Our annual Dear Future Festival ignites conversation and explores new ways of thinking into the future through film and moving image. We collaborate with musicians, artists, filmmakers, thinkers, scientists, writers and poets.

I am a visiting lecturer for the MA documentary department at The London Film School. My workshops facilitate creative thinking through the practice of film. 

WORKS

Moving Image

This That Happens – 2018/HD/13m18s/Director-Editor-Sound Design
I Am Weather – 2018/HD/5m58ssingle screen triptych/Director-Sound Design
Fever of The Light – 2018/HD/three-screen installation/24mins/Director/editor
The Force of The Imagination – 2014/HD/4m16s/Director-editor
Of Experience – 2014/HD/2m05s/Director-editor
Of Vanity – 2014/HD/1m34s/Director-editor
Of Dying – 2014/HD/3m40s/Director-editor
Of Age – 2014/HD/3m45s/Director-editor
Of Joy – 2014/HD/11mins/Director-editor
Life Begins at Land’s End – 2013/HD/6mins/Director-editor
Longplayer – 2013/HD/3m12s/Director-editor
Weighing of The Heart – 2011/HD/3m12s/Co-Director-editor
Dreams Of Life And Death – 2011/HD/2m30s/Director-editor
The Escape of Piccolina – 2010/16mm/4mins/Writer-Director
The Downfall of Mighty Man – 2009/16mm/4mins/Writer-Director

Exit No Exit – 2009/DV/30mins/Dual projection for stage/Co-director
The Strangeness of Seeing – 2009/DV/70mins series of 26 short works/Co-Director
Dream With Me! – 2008/DV/45mins/Writer-Director
Rosebud III – 2007/DV/15mins/Writer-Co-Director
Mortar – 2007/DV/15mins/Writer-Director
New York Soundwaves – 2006/DV/5mins/Director-editor

Non Fiction

The Forest In Me – 2022/HD/70mins/Director
Glitter and Storm – 2012/HD/15mins/Director
Peacecamp – 2012/HD/4mins 55secs/Director-Editor
The Chamber Orchestra – 2011/HD/11mins/Co-Director
Pirates’ Day – 2011/DV/4mins//Director
Bee Fever – 2010/16mm/14mins/Director
Moonbug – 2009/DV/90mins/Co-Editor