On the move
Selected work, inspiration & research
My current practice blends audio field recording with animation and photography. Themes of attachment, perception and memories unfold against the backdrop of places once vibrant with life, capturing the essence of decay and the passing of time. I am inspired by artists like Kentridge (charcoal animations), Richter (photo paintings), and Reich (minimal music as thematic motifs).
Facing a challenging year that tested my mental health, I sought to rediscover my purpose and uncovered fragments of my life that needed reconciliation, leading to the upcoming project Fragments.
I aim to explore the collective experience through my perception & my memories. I will observe people and places, gather stories, and convey that experience using tools such as field recording, lomography and animation. To do so, I’ll be on the road, in England and Europe.
I aim to navigate the convergence of reality and imagination. I am very interested in David Hockey's 'joiner photographs' and how they relate to the passing of time and memories. My goal is to fuse similar techniques and apply them to animation and uncover innovative storytelling methods.
Animation Showreel 2024
#work in progressMinis - Poetic Animation
The themes of love, loss and relationships in the context of places where life once was & the passing of time.
The Butterfly (2024) - charity commission
Hand-drawn frame by frame digital animation, music, sound design
Commission for the charity WayThrough.
WayThrough creates services and support to meet people’s complex health and social needs, helping them to build healthier lives that have meaning and value for themselves and their families.
Carefree and curious Skye dreams of being a mermaid. But when she discovers that plastic pollution threatens her future home, she embarks on a quest to save the seas.
Currently on the Festival circuit
Small Selkie (2022)
Little Lark Productions - Dir. Matilda Harding-Kemp
Bea has always known the sky to be green. One day she tries to paint herself a better, cleaner world, only to learn that painting over the problem is not enough to fix it.
A Splash of Blue (2021)
Little Lark Productions - Dir. Nina Georgieff
#wip
The interplay between memory and how personal and collective stories shape our perception of reality.
An encounter with an old trucker who shared memories of his life on the road.
Weaving together fragments of individual experiences into a larger tapestry.
Merging music, field recordings, and storytelling to capture places and experiences. Recorded and produced in my mobile studio, using a blend of field recordings, voice samples, music recording, and digital layering techniques.
These pieces serve as precursors to the auditory elements I aim to develop further, where sound will be tied to visual storytelling.
Photography
Composition & Sound Design
L.U.D.
Teardex, Part I
La Jetée - Chris Marker (1962)
The film's narrative structure, a photo montage, contributes to the portrayal of memories as fragmented and elusive
Marker refers to La Jetée as a photo novel.
‘Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments.
Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.’
Jean Négroni - La Jetée, Chris Marker
This visual style reinforces the idea of memories as static snapshots.
Neither continuous nor fluid
The rhythm of the narrative mirrors the way memories come to us — in a non-linear way
Memories are subjective and shaped by emotions and perceptions.
The photographs create a sense of frozen moments in time. Each image captures a specific instant, allowing the viewer to glimpse fragments of the protagonist's memories.
Certain motifs recur throughout the film, creating a sense of echoes. These repetitions highlight the persistence and impact of certain moments in life.
Reference Litterature
The Years - Annie Ernaux
A meditation on the passage of time and the way memories shape both personal identity and a shared, collective consciousness
An exploration of memory, time, and identity.
The personal & the collective.
The experiences that traverse decades of cultural and social change.
A Photographic narrative style
The fleeting essence of individual moments while connecting them to the broader currents of history.
Speedboat - Renata Adler
The disjointed rhythms of memory and experience
A fragmented and episodic novel.
Disjointed anecdotes, observations, and inner monologues
A witty portrait of modern urban existence.
I Remember - Joe Brainard
Nostalgia
Identity
The transient nature of memory
Brainard’s fleeting moments from his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
Each fragment evokes the sensory and emotional textures of specific memories, ranging from the mundane to the profound.
A stream of consciousness offering glimpses into his personal experiences while also resonating universally.
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
The interplay between personal and collective memory
A reflection on his life, weaving personal experiences with philosophical meditations on the nature of existence.
A profound investigation into how memory shapes identity.
The transformative power of art to preserve fleeting moments against the passage of time.
Reference Music
Steve Reich - Different Trains
Different Trains juxtaposes personal and collective history, contrasting the mundane experience of train travel in America with the harrowing reality of trains in Europe during the Holocaust.
memory
trauma
historical context
Repeated patterns & motifs create a sense of movement, mirroring the relentless motion of trains
Tarin whistles, sirens, and spoken fragments evoke a vivid auditory landscape
On Music to Painting
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (James McNeill Whistler) + Spiegel in Spiegel (Arvo Part)
David Hockney’s ‘Joiners’
‘Joiners are like Cubist paintings. They are made up of fragments of the whole’
- David Hockney
‘I am not interested in representing how a room looks from one point of view. I am interested in how it looks all round’
- David Hockney
‘I am interested in the fluidity of space and the fluidity of time’
- David Hockney
Father & Daughter - Michaël Dudok de Wit (2000)
Addressing the emotional resonance of memories
"Father & Daughter" relies on minimalist storytelling with minimal dialogue.
The absence of extensive verbal communication emphasises the visual and emotional elements of the narrative.
The film adopts a circular narrative structure, reinforcing the idea that memories, despite the passage of time, remain a constant.
The repetition of certain images, scenes and locations contributes to the film's contemplative quality, encouraging reflection on the enduring nature of memories.
Dreams and Reality
‘It'll be just like in the movies. We'll pretend to be someone else.
- Betty Elms - Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
‘Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.’
- William Kentridge
On William Kentridge’s charcoal animation technique
‘Not only in Felix In Exile but in all his animated works, the concepts of time and change comprise a major theme. He conveys it through his erasure technique, where he implements by drawing a key frame, erasing certain areas of it, re-drawing them and thus creating the next frame. He is able in this way to create as many frames as he wants based on the original key frame simply by erasing small sections. Traces of what has been erased are still visible to the viewer; as the films unfold, a sense of fading memory or the passing of time and the traces it leaves behind are portrayed. Kentridge's technique grapples with what is not said, what remains suppressed or forgotten but can easily be felt.’
‘With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.’
- Gerhard Richter
Kentridge/Rainer/Richter - erasure, ghostly traces, pictures full of silence. remove the ego.
Exploring perception - imagination - perfection - the overpaintings of Gerhard Richter
Fragments.
Memories are like stained photographs.
‘When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic.’
- Gerhard Richter
‘I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information’
- Gerhard Richter
what is a memory / what is an illusion
Is a memory the illusion of a past moment?
What do we take and what do we add to a moment to build it into a memory?
Am I the construct of my self-built memories.
‘I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness.’
- Gerhard Richter
‘What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?’
- Hae Sung - Past Lives, Celine Song.
‘I don't know what my future is. The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But, I would like to be useful again.’
- Miss Kenton - The Remains Of The Day, James Ivory.
‘Tell me exactly what you saw and what you think it means.’
- Lisa Fremont - Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock.
‘What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.’
- Joel - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry
People, places, memories.
The things we’ve lost, and the things we’ve taken along the way.
‘I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you’ve lost’
- Marion - Another Woman, Woody Allen.
The works of Isao Takahata on animating reality
The fuzzy nature of memories is highlighted by fading the edges of the image
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry (2004)
The nonlinear storytelling emphasises the complexity of how moments are connected, irrespective of their temporal sequence.
The subjective nature of reality - how our perceptions are shaped by personal experiences and relationships