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“Think smaller?” A Very Lockdown Birthday is a short stop-motion animation film that depicts planning a birthday during the Covid-19 Epidemic. In a whimsically hand-made style, it shows how the plan evolves from a huge festival, to a big party, to camping, to compromise as restrictions increase. However, the day might not be so bad …
“It’s nearly mothers’ day.” White Lilies is a dark comedy short which I wrote and directed. The film was funded by the Media Resource Centre, Helpmann Academy and our Pozible supporters. The film screened at the Sydney Indie Film Festival. At the same time, it was taking out an audience award at the National Film …
“I think I just flashed someone.”“Lucky them, getting a free show.”“Yeah… if the show is maxi-pads fully loaded.” Jemima the Fish is an uplifting film about Jemima (Ellen Graham, an Adelaide College of the Arts Student in her final year), a girl in her early 20s. One day she brings home a pet fighting fish, …
Camouflage is a short experimental piece I made as a self-portrait. It explores one’s image and how that impacts on identity formation, expression, suppression and oppression. Appearance is a factor that impacts heavily on one’s identity, so the image that we project outwardly affects how human beings see one another. Some elements of appearance, such as …
The following is a short claymation which serves as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock. The piece recreates his shower scene in the 1960 film Psycho. The fast paced scene manages to convey the terror and vulnerability of the naked Marion Crane whilst avoiding any shots of actual nudity or gore. Much of this is achieved through jarring …
In 2015, I took a class on Advertising. As a part of this topic we had to undertake a Community Voices assignment, the goal of which was to create a short Online Video Advertisement for a client which had to be a community engagement organisation. I had the opportunity to direct and design this fun …
As a music enthusiast, I often collaborate with local musicians in Adelaide. This is necessary to find soundtracks that are composed specifically for my works. Sione Bouts Teumohenga (Lonelyspeck), is one of these individuals. As an exchange for all their help I directed a music video to coincide with the release of one of their EPs, …