Photography arrests an instant; film allows it to misbehave.
My films extend many of the preoccupations found elsewhere in my photographic work: bodies and performance, sexuality and humour, language, ritual, place, and the sometimes rather precarious boundary between seriousness and absurdity.
Some are experimental, some narrative; some are playful and suggestive, others considerably less discreet. What interests me is not maintaining a single register, but what happens when registers collide—when the erotic becomes funny without ceasing to be erotic, when respectability loses its footing, or when a familiar image begins to mean something quite different from what it appeared to mean at first.
The films listed here are currently presented as works for festival exhibition. All were filmed June–October 1991 on Betamax SP, then digitised and digitally reworked in 2017, 2024–2026, incorporating newly created visual effects in the Archon Variations I—III.
Trailers and festival information are available through FilmFreeway through the links provided.
The Person Specification (2024)
When DJ Billy is advised to tell a job interview panel that he is an archon, a bewildering shared vision gives the claim unexpected authority. He follows the advice—but whether he has revealed his true nature or merely found the perfect interview answer remains unresolved.
The Visitation (2025)
A Chartered Building Surveyor and an Assistant Building Surveyor visit an ancient Minster, where polite formalities gradually give way to a more intimate, unspoken purpose. A sensual, darkly playful English comedy of manners, The Visitation explores decorum, complicity and desires that refuse to remain orderly.
LOVE — ALL (2026)
Two people arrive at a tennis club expecting to meet the same absent man for rather different reasons. Left waiting together, they find another way to occupy the court.
The Mother Tongue (2026)
A playful and provocative meditation on Britishness, women, language and desire. Moving between places, bodies and performances, The Mother Tongue asks what happens when the camera takes a very serious-sounding phrase rather less seriously.
Intinction Objection (2018. Mature 18+ only)
An irreverent experimental short in which religious ritual, the body and sexuality collide. Intinction Objection takes the language and imagery of the sacred somewhere decidedly unexpected.