These films are designed as part of group installations/performances often collaborating with soundscapers, acrobats, dancers, musicians, actors and in homes, wharehouse spaces and the streets, and not as stand alone cinema type screenings.

My first film InDissent was made during the 2003 anti war march in London. It was about the inside experience, the sense of being in the midst of this mass roar of revolt. It was a partner piece to a book made from film stills, and  comment and facts gleaned from the media. The book was designed so you had to ‘walk’ or travel through it. It was about catching a moment in time from a different perspective. After this I made KITCHEN which was an eerie film with a piercing soundtrack by sonic artist Andrew Brown, made from filming still lives in an empty kitchen. Both films were about observing the everyday that we fail to notice, the throwaway of daily life and events. This is an area that continues to interest me and informed other more formal films I have made since. Some of these have been filmed while I was working as a creative practitioner in different settings, others have been commissioned films documenting other artists working on residencies. I have filmed performances and plays. I directed, filmed, edited all these films myself.

NEUF is an experimental video art group of which I am a founder member. We met on the excellent Experimental Video Art Course, a collaboration between Cambridge Film Consortium, Anglia Ruskin University and Kettles Yard run for a small group of artists who wished to explore the medium of film. We have been meeting monthly for the past 13 years. We crit each others independent films, take part in residencies together and plan collaborative projects. These take many different forms. One of our projects is the At Home series. We make site specific video or performance in response to a domestic setting and open it to the public. We have also collaborated with a dancer, Triptych, a group of improvising musicians, sound artists and 2 acrobats. We projected live film on a walk through an urban environment with hand held projectors. In March 2020 we were forced to postpone a live performative work ‘Am in Danger’ in the Auditorium at Homerton College, University of Cambridge due to Covid-19. A title chosen before the pandemic.

Members of Neuf are from a diverse range of backgrounds and have successful practices in other fields also.
 

home

Safety Boat  2020, 3:19

Part of a planned Neuf installation. 

Film of installation in empty shop, Grafton Shopping Centre, Cambridge, part of 6 week Neuf residency (Changing Spaces). Projection on painted screen.The writing painted in chinese ink is a transcription of an overheard conversation

NEUF: At Home 3
O Clock 2013, 4:18

A Cambridge terraced cottage off Maids Causeway, Cambridge. Inspired by photos around the house and screened in the sitting room over mantelpiece.

NEUF: At Home 2
Cornucopia 2013, 4:04

Animation from footage taken in a historic thatched cottage in Granchester.Cornucopia evolves from the collection of things in this domestic setting.Projected from an old wooden ironing board on to the facade of the white-washed cottage.

NEUF: At Home 1
Bio Déjeuner 2012, 9:14

Contribution and response to a central Cambridge town house. Screened in the kitchen above dining table. Filmed in France.

NEUF:
Eight to One 2009, 4:20

Collaborative film project as a member of experimental film collective NEUF.

Almanac 2009, 7:47

A collation of  images, observations and experiences selected from footage made over a long period . A jamboree bag of meanings.

ConSequence 2006, 5:10

A direct response to the proliferal in my immediate environment , the underbelly of daily life . . . . .  more

 Film Commissions / Art Residencies

Eco-capabilities - Creative Adventuring UCL

2021, 2:51

Films documenting Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination artists working with art in nature as part of the Eco-Capabilities programme UCL:

A Trolley of Ideas, 2010, 13:11

Commisioned fîlm. Addenbrookes Hospital playworkers working with two artists from CCI

Sculpture 2010, 1:58

Small film of reception children at a school working on a project with me.

Art Residencies 2010, 2:50

Images fby children from various art residencies where I was working as a creative practitioner

Commisioned film of two artists working on a month long project with early years children

Commisioned film. Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination residency at a school for children with special needs.

Theatre/Performance

Prometheus, 2010, 4:06

Pilot film of performance of Prometheus by Phil Knight

Claytime, 2008, 5:57

Commisioned film. Indefinite Articles show CLAYTIME.