freelance filmmaker (directing, cinematographer) + editor (editing, grading, post-production) with experience across commercial jobs, independent documentary, music videos, live documentxation and feature films.
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cinematography for Kalanjay Dhir’s a perfect storm
editing & colour grade for Justine Youssef’s Somewhat Eternal
selected music videos
stills from edit & colour grade for Warya (dir. Miski Omar)
(Under)scoring the Commons – filmed in collaboration with James Hazel for Gosford Regional Gallery
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.
Editing, colour grading and documentary work with George Gittoes
No Bad Guys (dir. George Gittoes) (92’00”), 2021
On Being Blood Mystic (20’00” loop) – commissioned by Casula Powerhouse
On Being There (38’00”) – Wollongong Art Gallery
Additional Music Videos
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
UTS Media Arts and Production Capstone Short Film – Light Seized My Brain (2016)
Selected interviews and written work from 4:3
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
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)
"You Have To See..." 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)