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30 films receiving well over a hundred screenings in 25 countries around the world, including tate modern and national film theatre london as well as online as part of a number of festivals.  work ranges from poetry film to experimental works to animation to performances to/for camera.  view many of them now at http://vimeo.com/user2623542

 

a year is not an apple.  from a surrealist alphabet for children. premièred big screen, central square, middlesbrough.

ayler.   a song to albert ayler, at the forefront of 1960's free                  improvisation.   premièred the speigel, munchen, germany.

eyes of honey. bittersweet memories of childhood. premièred  carriageworks, leeds. 

first medovnik then. celebrating 20th anniversary of  the velvet revolution of 1989 and dedicated to czech artists vĕra chytilová and eva švankmajerová. produced as part of undercovered festival, cesta, czech republic.

 

handsaw whose blade is feather.  one shot, one take of article one of the universal declaration of human rights - all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.  premièred armenian centre for contemorary experimental art, yerevan, armenia. 

less fragile than we.  past-present-futures collide in fragile beauty despite (it) all.

let a thousand dictionaries bloom. performance to camera with reverse-graffiti'd text transliterating of one of yannis ritsos amazing monochords. 

one love my love.  1'.  rev 2009 c.e. found-hearts animated for love.   premièred aarau, switzerland. 

our ordinary map.  culture-jamming of psychiatrists who control the narrative, denying the reality of  those of us who actually go thru it.  premièred  darlington arts centre.

rawkfluxus rendering of (borrowed) saint georges day here on tyneside.  premièred 5th international encounter of visual poetry, venezuela.

sack round the freezing tree.  a response to the tumultuous g20 meeting/protests in london 2009 and very much inspired by brechts poem spring 1938.  premièred norwich arts centre.  

some tabloid headlies. countering some common racist lies. 

stealing brecht. this performance to camera explores rituals of healing in the face of oppression. created thanks to a medialab pva residency at artsway, new forest. 

sz. budapest in cut-ups. premièred athens video art festival.

this tumbled stone. tribute to thomas bewick, engraver.

turn the book around. in memory of disabled victims of the nazis t4 aktion campaign. part of an online holocaust memorial project from germanys new media network. 

underland. psychogeographic mapping of sunderland - a secret jewel of a city, birthplace of leveller john lilburne and where tom paine (yes that one) provided the second iron bridge the world had seen. 

vö-lus-pá. this norse myth talks of future climate change as well as of .greening the world again.   part of symphony of ravens for odins glow

when fingers point to the moon.  title comes from the dalai lama - 'when a finger points at the moon it is unwise to look at the finger'. produced as part of a digital residency for humber mouth festival, hull.  

whisper i am.  a grainy dance for dancer tim rubidge.

widescream. joint winner of 2010's old vic short monologue competition http://vimeo.com/10520122