In late 2020 between Covid-19 lockdowns I worked with designer Ravi Deepres at the Chichester Festival theatre on video projections for “Crave”, by the late playwright Sarah Kane. As part of the commission we made a film combining the on-stage PTZ cameras, the web streaming cameras and our own video projection material. Our aim was to create a film that would - as best we could - portray some of the atmosphere and tension of the actual stage performance rather than a passive ‘documentation’ of the what happened on stage. The film was streamed by Chichester Festival Theatre on a pay per view basis as an additional way of showing the production to the public and gaining valuable income.
In 1966 at 20 years of age Professor Simon Baddeley (University of Birmingham) & his friend Sue Best crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the 22ft Sloop “Young Tiger”. They won the 1966 RCC Challenge in the process. I’ve begun interviewing them and am developing a short film about their adventures. How such experiences early in ones life can influence adulthood has become a key element.
Littleton Colliery was the last deep mine pit in Staffordshire to close on 10th December 1993 with the final loss of 600 jobs. Having grown up in Cannock the pit had been part of the landscape to me. I photographed the last day in 1993 and went back in 2006 to photograph and film the miners again. Directed by Luke Unsworth, assisted by Ravi Deepres.
“Atomos” - Film version
Trailer from BBC4 film of Atomos on which I was Animation Coordinator and one of the Camera Ops (Arri Alexa Mini)
Film and Animation on the original stage ballet Design by Ravi Deepres, Andy Goodman, Stephen Spencer, Luke Unsworth
Music by A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Created by ©Ravi Deepres and Luke Unsworth
Film Design - Ravi Deepres for the ballet Atomos choreographed by Wayne McGregor
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The Social History Curators Group - Rope Working and Rigging
The Social History Curators Group - The Blacksmith
The creation of Studio Wayne McGregor’s studio at Here East, Stratford, London. Directed, shot & edited by myself & Ravi Deepres.
Coffin Works Museum - Film 1 - The Making of a Company
Fans to Finland - Shot in Pello, Finland in 2000. Directed by Claire Toche, cinematography by Luke Unsworth
In 2022 I was commissioned to camera op & edit several films for the Commonwealth games films. Called Origin, these films showed the preparations of current athletes alongside the training of younger up and coming athletes. Commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella, directed by Ravi Deepres, music composed by Joel Cadbury and produced by Pip Piper.
Wonderland was an exhibition created by the Flatpack Film festival in 2022 at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. I was commissioned to create a film of the astonishing scale model of Odeon New Street, built by diamond-cutter Cyril Barbier over the course of thirty years. I travelled down to an old music hall in Porth, nr Cardiff where the model was stored to film the miniature.