Personal Projects
Self initiated and collaborative, non commercial projects
Year
2023
Category
Short Film
About
Combining digital creations with the physical world has always been a consistent theme in my work. With this experimental film, I looked to fuze generative AI with live action footage. My goal was to present a juxtaposition between how machine learning interprets its given inputs and how a dancer interprets music with their movement. After creating a traditional edit to a soundtrack, intentionally selected for its human qualities, I proceeded to use various generative AI methods to effect the shots and even create completely new ones. Techniques included: text to image, image style transfer, video to video, audio interpretation, frame interpolation and upscaling. The final two shots in the film are made with text to video - they are entirely computer imagined frames based simply on words.
About
This documentary I produced together with my father, concerns the separation barrier in The West Bank. The film looks at how the wall affects the daily lives of the people living within its shadow and how its ever changing surface of opposing graffiti and art has made it into the world’s longest protest banner. Using art, in the form of watercolours painted while on the streets beside the wall, my dad endeavours to peacefully protest against it, literally drawing attention to the injustice it represents – something Palestinian’s call ‘beautiful resistance’
Year
2015
Category
Documentary
About
This short documentary showcases the photographs my mother-in-law took in the early 70s in an area called Toxteth in Liverpool. The 2015 exhibition at the Bluecoat gallery not only displayed all the photos but brought the people that were in them together again.
'Living' with Diabetes
Year
2014
Category
Documentary
About
This short film tells the very personal and true story of how I found out I had type 1 diabetes. I made this film with the intention of educating people about the condition and inspiring fellow people with diabetes new and old.
About
A reimagining of all the celestial bodies in the solar system through home science experiments. The experiments actually relate to what they are representing and so give the user a fun yet factual experience about the heavens. My aim was to move away from computer animation and explore analog methods of visual effects. I have purposely kept post production to a minimum so imperfections are left in the final output as the enhance the notion that everything was shot for real.
Year
2012
Category:
Fashion Film
About
This film is my second collaboration with photographer Ollie Porter. Created for fashion journal 125 Magazine it was featured in the 'Time' edition of their digital magazine. We felt that nowhere is the concept of time more poignant and incomprehensible than in the heavens of space. Over billions and billions of years celestial cycles have produced incredible wonders in our skies. 'Supernova' stylistically portrays one of the universe's most dramatic life cycles; the birth, life and death of a star. Throughout history, the life cycle of a star has been likened to our own human lives which is an interesting parallel to make considering each and everyone of us are made up of stardust.
Year
2011
Category:
Short Film
Awards:
Official Selection at Aesthetica Film Festical
About
The Deep is a collage of old archive footage and graphic animation. It takes you to the known and the unknown world that lies at the bottom of the sea. It was selected for the Aesthetica Film Festival in York.
Year
2010
Category:
Fashion Film
About
War Baby expands on how traditional fashion editorials are experienced. The video is parallel to the photography and provides viewers a perspective in motion. Inspiration came from graphic novel 'Tank Girl' and the illustrations of Brian M. Viveros. This video was a collaboration with photographer and friend, Ollie Porter.
Year
2009
Category:
Music Video
Awards:
Think Sync Finalist
About
A very early piece of work which became a finalist for the 'ThinkSync films' competition run by 'Soho Rushes' and has gone on to be used for promotion by 'Araya' (Benbecula Records) who produced the music. It has also played at a live visual event in the London Transport Museum and renowned designer, 'Adrian Shaughnessy', used stills from the film to illustrate his book - Graphic Design: A User's Manual.
