freelance filmmaker (directing, cinematographer) + editor (editing, grading, post-production) with experience across commercial jobs, independent documentary, music videos, live documentation and feature films.
Editor, Cinematographer, Colour – We Are All In This For Everyone Else – Retail and Fast Food Workers Union.
Editor, Colour – No Bad Guys (dir. George Gittoes) 92 mins
Nominated for Best Documentary for Australian Critics Circle Award. Winner of Best Director at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Screened at Sydney Underground Film Festival.
Director, Editor, Colour – (I'm After) Your Best Interest – EXEK @ Phoenix Central Park
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colour – ISOLA @ Phoenix Central Park
Cinematographer, Editor, Colour – (under)scoring the commons) – 13 minutes, with James Hazel for Gosford Art Gallery and Community
Cinematographer, Editor, Colour – 'SINK' Live @ Phoenix Central Park – 37 minutes
Cinematographer, Editor, Colour – Sound Touch @ Phoenix Central Park, Damien Ricketson – 52 mins
Cinematographer – Precarious Texts / ‘Petite Suite Residency’ by James Hazel for ‘Brand X’
Additional 2022 work
Camera Operator – 3 Pianos (Adrian Lim-Klumpes, Chris Abrahams & Novak Manojlovic) (dir. Stephanie Jane Day) w/ Dimitri Zaunders
+ Superorganism – Live @ Phoenix Central Park (dir. Hyun Lee)
Additional Sound Design, Mixing – Twisted Sword by Justine Youssef
Cinematographer, Editor, Colour, Workshops – Arts and Cultural Exchange Parramatta
+ 'Attendance Rap' with Bourke Primary School in Bourke, NSW (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1174947563055036)
Production Assistant – Petrol (dir. Alena Lodkina), Premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival
Editor – SUGAR – Danté Knows (dir. Angie Osman), Cinematographer: Lucca Barone-Peters
Assorted Work
Soundtrack, Grading and Additional Filming for Eugene Choi’s A burning house, as part of the Sydney Opera House Shortwave program. The work can be viewed on the Opera House website via. clicking on the image below.
¹ music videos shot, directed & edited for/with trackwork aka. utility feat. artists sevy, bayang and t breezy ² Chop It co-directed with austin buckett and yasmin goonweyn ³ sevy - ting was nominated for fbi SMAC award for best music video 2020
Cinematic Poetics and Reclaiming History: Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time as Legacy in Carceral-Border Cinema: The Film from Manus Prison
for Alphaville Issue 18: Refugee Filmmaking
http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue18.html
Below: filmed Documentation of Elia Bosshard’s Mirror Field
Selected Interviews
Chauka: An Interview with Behrouz Boochani and Arash Sarvestani
Cemetery of Splendour: An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Hong Kong Trilogy: An Interview with Christopher Doyle and Jenny Suen
Ouroboros: An Interview with Basma Alsharif
Le fort des fous: An Interview with Narimane Mari
Below: UTS Media Arts and Production Capstone Short Film – Light Seized My Brain (2016)
Additional videos shot and edited for Trackwork artists, co-directed with Utility
Bloodsport video edited for Southend Rainbows, IBRA shot, directed and edited for 3NDLE35 & Crazymike’s Sydney Bass project
Experimental visuals assembled and edited for Static Vision Sound System, focused on individuals-as-brands, hyper-saturated social media landscapes and the anxieties they provoke,
Selected Writing
Reviews: The Long Season (dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich) The Woman Who Left (dir. Lav Diaz), The Ornithologist (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues), Chevalier (dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari), Ta'ang (dir. Wang Bing), Snow Monkey (dir. George Gittoes), The Look of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer), Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker), Our Little Sister (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda), Lake August (dir. Yang Heng), Timbuktu (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako)
Essays: Experimental Film Series at Queensland Institute of Modern Art, "You Have To See..." The Ceremony (dir. Nagisa Oshima), W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (dir. Dušan Makavejev), and Funky Forest (dir. Katushito Ishii).
Assorted: Unsound Festival Adelaide Reflections (Published in The Wire), Reflections on Abbas Kiarostami, "Less Than 50": Beijing Bastards (dir. Zhang Yuan)
Assorted Sound and Vision
¹ East of Eastlakes LP as The Southend Rainbows ² the Ιερεμίας people's broadcast + variety show #1 ³ επανεισαγωγή ακραίες ⁴ What Have I Done Visualiser ⁵ Missed - Remix ⁶ Death to Golden Dawn Live Recording
Below: Review of Unsound Adelaide in UK Publication The Wire
Additional Sound Work