With Conor; I asked Conor to help me explore our physicality in a movement workshop. Without speaking we navigated each others bodies. I was interested in pitting my masculine energy against his.

Interesting to see two bodies becoming one. #multitude

Working with two students from level 2 we were given the task of making a 3 minute film in 3 hours. My concept was to explore a relationship between two characters that would involve my interest in masculine presenting physicality, ambiguity-of relationships, gender, narrative. Of queer and otherness. I did not know the other actor that well prior to the shoot. Again as with Conor I was interested to explore a physical relationship with someone unfamiliar. Joined at the head like a mythical beast, some strange cantankerous #chimera. #multitudes #DonnaHaraway

Notes from sketchbook; Planning for shoot with a storyboard

I took the footage and experimented with it myself for my own personal practice, trying different edits and moods. As in Brief Encounter Lads (getting glass and ass) below, I wanted to heighten the intensity between characters as well as increase the ambiguity of the relationship; are they enemies or lovers? Referencing Brief Encounter with characters looking more This is England I try to amalgamate opposing signs through the b&w imagery and sound to create an #uncanny atmoshphere, a strange collision; imagining a weird love child of David Lean and Shane Meadows in a trackie waiting outside the pub for his dads. #queer #ambiguity #unheimlich

In the edit Call Me Al no Come I worked with creating ambiguity between sound and image. Using the track ‘Call Me Al’ by Paul Simon which was playing in the location during the shoot I use the uptempo melody in contrast to the darker imagery unfolding in the film. Using sound in situ and extending it out into the soundtrack I’m playing with time and space and dimensions of reality creating a ‘promo’ of sorts. Potentially referencing music videos or advertising even, with the feel of the film. Again this chirpy soundtrack and an edit where the cuts are in scync with the music runs parallel with an implied narrative of violence, aggression and the unknown. #uncanny #duality #oppositions #mood

Stills from beach shoot as part of collaborative project;

Below is a further experimental edit as part of the collaboration with Hannah Flemming and Neil McChulloch.