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4 ayes

A frolic through the foreafter “in the aye”; A tale told in four ayes The four-abend of the other ayes; An oculists nightmare; A random

Beauty is in your mind

This video is a tribute to the North American painter Agnes Martin (1912-2004) who I met several times and admire her work profounly.

The Smell of Death

The Smell of Death is the last in a series of moving image creations made as an extension of the Abstract Expressionist painting movement. The

Sunday Afternoon II

“Sunday Afternoon II (2001) is bathed in the lush colour of a post-war movie and slowed in tempo. A figure lies prone on the floor

Memories of Loitering

Memories of Loitering brings moments from the artist’s past and present together through a spatiotemporal experience of mapping and slow burn. In its overlaying of

The Invisible Worm

The Invisible Worm is a funny / serious film with spontaneous moments of joy, physicality and thinking aloud. The subtext of the film is the

FugaFilm

“I had experienced a moment of genuine rapture, not from some idea of importance, but from a musty smell.” – Marcel Proust

ROCKPOOL

This video was made continuing with my exploration of representation and the changes and transformations occurring in natural phenomena and the environment. It is a

SEQUENCES (Lament for the Lost)

Filmed in one continuous take and with a constant aperture, moonlight on the sea surface is intermittently revealed and obscured by clouds. Those unpredictable changes

i 2 aye

The prequel-equal-sequel to the award-winnning, highly acclaimed feature filuminium “i eye aye” (UK 2021, 99 minutes) Overcoming LIFE and DEATH, Das Institut für den reinen

Golden Jubilee

What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? “Golden Jubilee”, the third film in a series of works

Efforts of Nature

Combining low resolution footage, 16mm film and satellite imagery, Efforts of Nature considers the passage of time, processes of change and dissolution from two distant

Wendy

‘You will witness the day become near-night, like the deepest twilight. Sunset colors bathe the full horizon, while a gaping black hole gazes down at

Side-Splitting

All the sections of the film originated as three minute films intended to be screened separately. Dam, and Untitled 1988 Broadgate were both screened in

Ain’t Got No Fear

‘Ain’t Got No Fear’ is a film which Mikhail Karikis created with a group of 11 to 13-year-old boys who are growing up in the

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