ABOUT
I am an artist filmmaker. My moving image and documentary films have screened at festivals including Thessaloniki Doc fest, Locarno, Creteil International Women’s f/f, Kerala f/f, Berlin Short f/f, London Independent Documentary F/F, Kasseler Dok Fest, Les Enfants Terribles! f/f and at venues including The Royal Danish Academy, the NFT, The Roundhouse, The Arnolfini, Musee Du Louvre, The South London Gallery, Glasgow Tramway, De La Warr Pavilion, and The BlackShed Gallery.
FILMMAKING PRACTICE
An important element of my filmmaking is a daily practice of filming, to deepen my attention as a type of care. My camera lens offers me a way of honing in to what emerges from my everyday environment with this slower type of looking – I return to uncertainty as a starting point. I generate footage as pages of a filmic sketch book and draw from this material for my films and moving image projects alongside new footage. I feel my way as a filmmaker, a mother and a woman, embracing how these shifting experiences overlap and inform my work as an ongoing conversation with the world around me. My daily filming practice is a quiet, personal rebellion – to look after the things I see in the way I can, and to protect my sensitivity to our mysterious, serendipitous world.
I was awarded a scholarship to undertake a PhD in film by practice with Exeter University and The London Film School. Completing this in 2022, I developed an essayistic filmmaking methodology through studying the written works of the 16th century humanist philosopher Michel De Montaigne. My feature doc drawing from this methodology is participating in 2024 Film Festivals, premiering in the Thessaloniki Doc Fest Fast Forward Competition.
FILM CURATION AND TEACHING
I co-founded a 48 seat independent cinema The Electric Palace in Hastings, UK in 2002. For over twenty years I curated a year-round programme of films and events supporting film-lovers and filmmakers, handing over my directorship in 2023 to form Dear Future Films, a forward thinking community interest company. Dear Future exists to create films, live film-mixing projects, workshops and to curate film events. Our workshops focus on using the act of filming to hone attention and to develop confident, creative and independent thinking. Our annual Dear Future Festival aims to ignite conversation and explore new ways of thinking into the future through film and moving image. We collaborate with musicians, artists, filmmakers, philosophers, scientists, writers and poets.
I teach as a regular visiting lecturer for the MA documentary department at The London Film School. My workshops facilitate creative thinking through the practice of film and support the development of creative, poetic and exciting documentary films.
WORKS
Non Fiction
The Forest In Me – 2024/HD/69mins/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
Moving Image and other experiments
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