Sally

(2019, 5’49”, Digital HD)

A music promo for David Devant & His Spirit Wife filmed on thirty cameraphones – coming soon!

Why Is Work So Boring?

(2017, 5’48”, Flash Animation)

A commission for Alain de Botton’s School Of Life youtube channel. It has had 600,000 views so far.

Overseer

(2015, 1’00”, Digital HD)

A museum attendant stands guard amongst the Parthenon Sculptures, unaware that she is being filmed from a rooftop restaurant below. As the music playing in the restaurant swells like a cinematic score, she is transformed into a screen goddess – and perhaps Athene, standing guard over her city.

Screened at
One Take Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, October 2016
One Minute Film Festival, Aarau, Switzerland, 8th May 2016

The Half Of It

(2015, 4’14”, Digital HD)

Another collaboration with singer Mikey Georgeson to coincide with the release of his greatest hits album, Best Of The Vessel.

The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock

(2015, 8’00”, Super 8)

A young man walks the streets of London through the yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes.

What Is Animation?

(2014, 2’48”, Flash animation)

Veteran animator Bob Godfrey answers this perennial question.

The Curtains Of Zagra

(2014, 5’16”, HD, animation)

A hero with a thousand faces seeks the Moustache of Destiny. A music promo for Mikey Georgeson & The Civilised Scene.

Ode To Joy

(2014, 3’52”, PAL, stills and animation)

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth.

John Halas Remembered

(2012/15, 12’06”, PAL DV)

A newly-updated version of the documentary about John Halas, the Hungarian-Jewish emigre who became the father of British Animation. Co-directed with Vivien Halas.

Dinosaur

(2010, 1’00”, DV) Featured in One Minute – Volume 4

A metal Godzilla stands over the Hammersmith skyline.

Gustav Metzger: 100,000 Newspapers

(2008, 17’57”, DV PAL)

A record of Gustav Metzger’s installation and performance ‘100,000 Newspapers’ on 21st-23rd January 2003. I filmed the artist’s three performances, as well as his preparations and two short interviews. I had the unique opportunity to film him at work.

Like Me, Only Better

(2007, 5’20”, Digi Beta, hand-drawn animation)

A laconic comedy about Neuroses, Catholicism and Prozac: my Royal College of Art graduation film.

Greenwich Degree Zero

(2006, 0’57, 35mm, B&W) 

Greenwich Observatory is in flames in the aftermath of the attack by anarchist Martial Bourdin, 15th February 1894. Displayed at the Hayward Gallery in winter 2012-13.

The Time Travellers Of 1908

(2005, 8’56”, 35mm, live-action)

A home-movie about London in the 21st Century made by two explorers from 1908.

Century’s End

(2004, 5’45”, 16mm, live-action)

A film-poem about London in the last hours of the 20th Century.

The Commuter

(2003, 1’30”, DV, live-action and animation)

An office-worker shaves his face off every morning in order to blend in with the other faceless commuters on their way to work.

G.M.

(2001, 8’30”, Digi Beta, live-action and animation)

An Edwardian gentleman is tormented by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wall paper.

Modern Dilemmas

(1997, 2’12”, 16mm)
Etiquette for the aspiring murderer.

Fisted: The Hunt For Richard Herring

(1996, 9’30”, Super 8)
An ex-comedian searches for his nemesis.

Shaving

(1996, 5’07”, digitised VHS)
A Surrealist satire on office life which and the basis of my 2003 film ‘The Commuter’.

Ripples

(1993, 2’49”, Super 8)
An 8mm film poem about the River Isis in Oxford .