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My Portfolio

Welcome to my portfolio. Here you’ll find a selection of my completed & pending work. To watch my projects, please press/ click the thumbnail to receive a link to the video unless the film is currently in post production.

Hallowed Earth

My Role: Director of Photography 

When a friend goes missing, Ness must go to their friend's rural childhood home to find them. When they arrive, they encounter a mysterious old man with malicious intentions. This is a folk horror rooted in trans and queer themes. 

Content is Currently In Post-Production

Transcendence 

My Roles: Director of Photography & Script Supervisor 

In a future of cybernetic enhancements, two cyber investigators discover a server containing a recently deceased musician. However, the two are confronted by a figure who plans on keeping this discovery a secret. This is a half-animated short sci-fi film with themes of corporate greed and AI advancement. 

Serendipity

My Roles: Sound Recordist, Post Sound & Film Score 

Delilah and Alice embark on a romantic journey after one meeting, which changes everything. Serendipity is a short rom-com that encapsulates the magic of chance encounters, the yearning for connection, and the transformative nature of love.

Content is Currently In Post-Production

Lineal 

My Role: First Assistant Camera 

Helena is forced to move back into her childhood home after the passing of her mother. While recalling childhood events, her fragile emotional state begins to break as she begins to question her own mind. This is a short horror film with themes of mental health and childhood trauma. 

Sweet Escape 

My Role: Sound Recordist 

A young woman looks to escape the life she was born into as a life in the circus starts to become an overwhelming idea. 

Content is Currently In Post-Production

Luvers Hip Hop & The Birth Place of Drum N Bass

My Roles: Director, Writer, Editor & Researcher 

This documentary explores Bristol's music scene and shows the perspective of important Bristolian musicians. We move through four decades of music and how groups and artists like Massive Attack, Portishead & Roni Size influenced the artists of today. Interviewed artists include Boca45, K*Ners & Si John.  

Cup of Joe 

My Roles: Co-writer & Script Supervisor 

Joe returns home for the first time in months to be with his mother. However, her new narcissistic boyfriend has led her down the path of alcoholism which makes Joe fearful for his mother's safety. This film was created to raise awareness about the difficult themes and character dynamics this film explores.

A Good Night's Rest

My Roles: Sound Recordist, Post Sound & Film Score

Peter has been struggling with insomnia for a long time and his nightmares are getting worse. After receiving new medication that should help him sleep, he finds that his worst night is yet to come as a shadowy figure comes for him in the dead of night. This is a short horror film about anxiety, insomnia, and medication. 

Pish 

My Roles: Director of Photography & Editor  

During the pandemic, the final-year acting students at BSA were unable to perform their final performance to an audience and required their show to be filmed. This was recorded over a week and used multiple cameras to later cut between. This collection of connected short fictional stories from St Petersburg in 1842 was written and directed by Toby Hulse. 

A Test of Loyalty 

My Roles: Director, Writer & Editor

After The Funeral

My Role: Director of Photography

Bad Student Film

My Role: First Assistant Director

What seems like a normal conversation at a restaurant, becomes something more sinister when the characters' motivations are revealed. This is my first directed and written short film which I did in my first year of College. 

After the funeral of their friend, a group returns to their apartment where they reminisce about each of their relationships with this deceased person. Once a secret is discovered, the group starts to tear into each other as revelations come to light about each of these characters. This is a short drama piece in collaboration with Bristol School of Acting. 

Things are not as they seem as two survivors in a post-apocalyptic wasteland find each other. As the characters find themselves in a disaster, they may find that the real disaster was signing up to be involved in this project. This is a short film we made to test our proficiency and creativity in using green screen. 

Over The Hill

My Roles: Director of Photography & Editor

Extraction

My Roles: Director of Photography & Editor

Mentality

My Roles: First Assistant Camera, Editor & Film Score

For this 24-hour film challenge, we wrote a poem about moral contradictions all people find themselves in when growing into adulthood. We then filmed a collection of shots that represented the themes we explored in the poem to create this abstract one minute piece. 

An ex-military soldier sits in his isolated home watching television when a war film comes on starting to make him feel uneasy. The man becomes paranoid and begins to think someone outside is watching him. 

A short documentary character study on the positivity that someone can take away from fitness and going to the gym. The film follows Ethan Graham as they talk about overcoming anxiety and reaching a place where they feel comfortable with their own body. 

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