People first. Pretty landscapes second.
Hike Society Adelaide, an LGBTQIA+ and allies-friendly hiking community, wanted a short film that could show what it feels like to walk with the group. The point wasn’t to make hiking look like an advertisement. It was to make joining feel possible.
The weather did not cooperate. I shot with a cinema camera and an older camcorder, using the contrast between clean landscapes and the imperfect, very human moments in between. I returned to Mount Crawford at sunrise when the conditions were better to capture the light the film needed.
It became a small invitation to come along, rather than a catalogue of scenery.
Make the brief work.
MTM needed three short interview videos introducing the people behind its construction business. Clean edits, captions, branding and a consistent social format. Nothing that got in the way of the people speaking.
I cut the interviews, worked on pacing, dialogue, colour and on-screen text, and developed an alternative treatment to show what small changes in sound, grade and branding could do. The client could choose what fit their existing style.
Not every job needs the weirdest idea in the room. Sometimes it needs someone who listens, makes the footage better and gets it delivered.
A world through my lens.
Independent films and photographic experiments are where I follow the stranger ideas. I write, shoot, direct and edit, making the most of practical light, locations and whatever is available to make an image stay with you.
The scale changes. The instinct doesn’t.