Lapide
2024, VHS
4 mins 52
‘Lapide’ follows my grandmother as she gives a tour of the local graveyard in the town in northern Italy where she lives. I use the same camera with which my own early childhood was meticulously documented, and try to explore the idea of home video aesthetics as an aesthetics of care and of witnessing.
2024, VHS
4 mins 52
‘Lapide’ follows my grandmother as she gives a tour of the local graveyard in the town in northern Italy where she lives. I use the same camera with which my own early childhood was meticulously documented, and try to explore the idea of home video aesthetics as an aesthetics of care and of witnessing.
Sagittarius
2024, VHS
7 mins 32
Loosely narrative in form and playing with 'calm-before-the-storm' tropes of cli-fi catastrophe flicks, 'Sagittarius' is about the experience of waiting for an event that might not arrive or which might already be here.
Prayer in the Barley
2023, Digital
3 mins 41
In this film, I try to express that experience of a fugitive communion with some kind of hidden past that is so much greater than myself.
Bellsmyre Caledonia
2022, 16mm & 8mm
5 mins 14
'Bellsmyre Caledonia’ is a 16mm film about housing, work and leisure. The film is based on a short piece written for the Workers’ Stories Project by Dumbarton-based housing activist and writer Tommy Lusk, who also stars in the film as an amateur housing sleuth (i.e. himself). This film was made with the support of Arika, Living Rent and the Workers’ Stories Project.
The Sun Up & Down Like a Yo-Yo
2020, 8mm
4 mins 7
In this film, I make use of 8mm footage and still inserts of old family photos from my childhood, and try to explore the lines between myself and my other family members.
2020, 8mm
4 mins 7
In this film, I make use of 8mm footage and still inserts of old family photos from my childhood, and try to explore the lines between myself and my other family members.
