Yesterday the Revolution Began (2024, 1 min)
London, 13 December 1995, was a Wednesday, and it started for most as any other weekday, but by its end it had earned its own renown. The video’s personal narrative recalls instances from that day when normalcy dissipated, anger could not be restrained, and governance was challenged.
Night-line (2023-4, 10 mins)
After dark the city takes on a different form, when work, leisure and other activities diverge from daylight expectations. In the nocturnal city time and space is seemingly recalibrated, which allows new prospects to emerge, and different visions to be realised and inhabited.
Oversea (2024, 25 mins)
How to define an island race? This travelogue charts a journey to Britain’s Brexit heartland where the spectres of empire and majestic favour reside with everyday idiosyncrasies, and asks what produces sense of being and where’s home.
Heavy Plant Crossing (2023-4, 13 mins)
Currently, new ‘developments’ crowd London. But some spaces are still commonly held, where something other than the ceaseless pursuit of capital can be imagined. One such place is Hackney Marshes, east London. This ‘place in-between’ is explored, and through this its purpose and presence, liminal and transitional position, are questioned and re-imagined.
Double screen performance with live sound by Matt Harding (electronics) & Sue Harding (foley) at Beyond Beck Road: Underline II, Open House Festival, London, 2023.
Repo (2023, 1 min)
An omnipresent vantage-point: Individuals - on foot, cycling, in cars - traverse the landscape, which is part of Hackney Wick's post Olympics’ ‘redevelopment’, their movement forms a map of transitory and otherwise invisible intersection.
One Axe (Plumstead Connection) (2022, 1min)
Sunday afternoon, a field-of-view, as seen from the Greenway, Abbey Mills section. Voices and wildlife suggest unseen presence. The scene is now history, but a point-of-view remains, forever this time and place.
In Plain Sight (2022, 12 mins)
The film is situated in Maryon Park (Charlton, south east London), which also featured in Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966) and this is the film's starting point. The park is a liminal place where the environmental, historical and cultural intersect.
Grand Union (2016, 17 mins)
The Regent’s Canal is walked on winter solstice, from dawn to dusk. Seeing the city from this vantage point allows a different place - once industrial, now largely residential - to become known.
Situation (2008, 2 min)
Situation suggests a 'relative position or combination of circumstances at a certain moment'. This situation relates an act of intervention, which altered a shared environment and public perception.
In Flight (2008, 5 mins)
The elemental order of things is challenged by synthetic intervention. However, audio visual synthesis brings the disparate elements together, which allows a different, created, environment to emerge.
Unto You (2008, 11 mins)
Family photographs are examined, the surface inspection articulates the need to know more, and to understand the significance of genetic reflection. Unto You is an exploration of absence and intimacy.
Sunday (2006, 7 mins)
Sunday is still, for many, a time to rest and dream. As the day proceeds the city is traversed and patterns of activity are revealed. But, with the waning of the day the spectre of the coming week emerges, and the day's repose recedes (once again).
Tyburn Way (2006, 19 min)
A walk from the Old Bailey to Marble Arch. This is the route that condemned prisoners once took to the gallows. This journey traces timelines, explores contemporary London, which reveals itself through spectacle and human interaction.
Doorway (2006, 1 mins)
A domestic scene: dark garden, washing blows on a line, television plays inside a house. The sound and image of a detective show inter-cuts with the exterior environment, altering it and bringing violence to the conjoined night.
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