Animated music video for Piroshka.
The song’s lyrics express the frustration and anxiety experienced by many people in the UK over the stalemate surrounding Brexit and the divisions and corruption that the debate has highlighted within a broader political context.
The film loosely illustrates historical and contemporary forms of protest from the Suffragettes to Black Lives Matter, cutting between protesters and images of British achievement, such as the NHS and social housing. Through the repetition of mobile phone imagery, the film questions whether our relationship with digital media, while on one level connecting us, can also be a distraction. With our gaze fixed on our screens are we missing what is happening all around us?
Commissioned byBella Union Records to accompany the single from the album, Brickbat.
My first film, made on my kitchen table! Conte pastel on paper, originally filmed on Super 8, and then Betacam.
Thanks to Lewi Lewis and 3 Peach Animation
BAFTA nominated animated short, commissioned by Channel 4's wonderful MOMI Animator in Residence scheme. A darkly comic story about procrastination in which a man becomes entangled in his own domestic web. Repeatedly unsuccessful attempts to leave his flat set off a series of chain reactions ensuring his inevitable descent into chaos! The film strikes a universal chord by depicting the character in the grip of this common neurosis.
Original score by Barry Adamson
Sound design by Tim Barker
Nine months spent walking frame by frame along Kentish Town Road, from Camden Town tube Station to the rooftops above Kentish Town station, 1 mile away.
Through the medium of animated photographs the film depicts a 24 hour journey exploring the dreamscape of a London high street.
Commissioned by The James Wigg Practice, Kentish Town Health Centre, Funded by the Arts Council and the Kentish Town Improvement Fund.
Co-directed with Magda Segal
How much of our mother can we really know? This animated documentary explores three men's recollections.
Commissioned by Film London as part of London Calling scheme 2016, the film premiered at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival.
It was nominated for Best Short Film at Kerry Film Festival and has so far been screened at Athens Anifest 2017, Flatpack; Linoleum, Ukraine; LEIDEN; Kerry Film Festival; Underwire; Animae Caribe; Interfilm 33, Berlin, Northern Wave, Iceland; Tricky Women, Vienna; British Shorts, Berlin;
Bozeman Film Celebration, Montana, USA.
Written by Sheena Joughin
Produced by Melissa Herman
Animated music video made for the band, Sing Sing.
Made with Adobe Flash.
It made it into the Topshop Music Video playlist!
Additional animation by Laurie J. Proud
Supported by Slinky Pictures with
thanks to Maria Manton
The project sets out to demonstrate the creative possibilities of working in a virtual town. Collusion commissioned international virtual builders Blockworks to recreate a section of the town in Minecraft.
To demonstrate the potential of this virtual town e.g to policy makers, educators and non-gamers, Collusion Cambridge commissioned me to create a film set entirely in the Minecraft version of Wisbech. I recorded interviews with local people, capturing in their voices thoughts about the town and ideas for the future, offering a refreshingly different point of view. Working alongside leading Minecraft artist and innovator Adam Clarke – aka Minecraft YouTuber Wizard Keen captured all of the Minecraft action for the film.
For more info visit
http://www.collusion.org.uk/projects/minecraft-wisbech/
Made for Camden Intergenerational Week 2015.
A group of older people from the North London Cares social club worked with children from the Kentish Town Animation Workshop, both based at Kentish Town Community Centre, got together to swap stories around topics in which they share common ground such as school, holidays, pets- and life in general!
The opportunity to share that time and learn about each other undoubtedly changed people’s opinions and lasting friendships have been formed between Kentish Towners with 80 years difference between them!
and North London Cares: http://www.northlondoncares.org.uk/
Designed, animated and acted by Westminster Children 4 Community Change (WC4CC). Working with Year 7 children living in overcrowded housing, the film is a direct appeal to the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson to seriously consider the impact of the living conditions of many children in Westminster.
Co-created with Bunny Schendler and Melissa Herman.
Commissioned by Save the Children's In My Back Yard programme.
savethechildren.org.uk/about-us/where-we-work/united-kingdom/in-my-back-yard
The film shows the activities and events going on in Camden that bring different generations together, and the beneficial effect for all involved.
Commissioned by Camden Age UK for
Camden Intergenerational Week 2017
The project was a randomised controlled trial carried out in the slums of Mumbai, India, between 2006 and 2012. By giving a daily food-based supplement, high in micro-nutrients to women, prior to and during pregnancy, the trial aimed to increase the birth weight of babies, and so reduce the incidence low birth weight related problems later in life.
Project Saras documents the day to day working of this project, in which more than 6,000 women have participated. Its aim is to show how a complex medical trial of this sort, works on the ground, and to reveal the real people behind the anonymous statistics.
Commissioned by Professor David Barker and the MRC (Medical Research Council) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton
Co-directed with Magda Segal
A work in progress!
Trailer for experimental documentary about experimental musician Adam Bohman
Too Close To Home: The Safer Streets Project.
A short documentary about the Safer Streets Project which was set up in response to the fatal stabbing of three young men from the Kentish Town/Cantelowes community.
Through raising awareness of the complex issues that have led to this violence the project aims to equip young people with some basic skills including self-defence, first aid, and educational discussion sessions focused around the impact of choice and personal responsibility.
The film documents the experience of the young people who participated in the project at NW5 Play Project and Kentish Town Community Centre, and allows them to voice their opinions.
