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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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New Short films
Distraction is the one good side effect of procrastination. When you have a big, impossible project, there’s nothing like a bunch of small attainable tasks to help avoid it. Right now, I’m beginning the slow process of animation production on The Babysitter, a mixed media short I directed last year with the help of Shoot… Read more
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Berlin May 2024
One of the most enjoyable aspects of being a filmmaker, is being able to capture my trips. I always regret the visits I didn’t document. In this case I glad I took the trouble, testing out the a new Blackmagic 6K Pro, and DaVinci’s revamped film emulation in the process. Read more
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My Life in Pieces – 2024 Bio
They say biographies should be succinct and to the point. The best thing apparently, is to write the story of your life so that it feels like everything lead up to where you are right now. My life though has been a meander. I have and continue to bounce all over the map – from… Read more
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Fanvid Berlin SCREENING IN DUBLIN
Over the past few months I’ve been attending the Dublin experimental film night Fanvid. The event, run Unit 44 / Kirkos, one of the last surviving independent art spaces in Dublin plays host to a diverse array of experimental films. Most eschew narrative, many are mixed media often created by fine art graduates or musicians.… Read more
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Benediction (1993/2024)
Three or four years ago, my brother surprised me by having our families old mini-DV tapes scanned. In 1993 we got our hands on a camcorder, and a tiny bundle of tapes. Recorded over and over between 1993 and 1994 (when I broke the Sony’s motor manually creating stop motion) these tapes held a treasure… Read more
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Parvana
I’ve been updating my IMDB and just realised I never posted about ‘Parvana’, a project I shot while living in Berlin for the Afghan director Abbas Mohammad Ayyoubi. Abbas is an incredible guy, who escaped single handed from US occupied Afghanistan, and made his way over a number of years and countless adventures to Berlin.… Read more
