Though filmmaking was not always the path I planned on taking, I've always had an interest in both the creative and technical worlds. I was pursuing a degree in engineering but hoping to find a way to join my interest in mechanics and electronics with my passion for writing, painting, and musical composition. I changed course (both literally and figuratively) after becoming fascinated with the film school stories of directors I admired. I suddenly realised that the medium of film was an intersection for all of these seemingly disparate passions, and provided the opportunity to work closely with fellow creatives.I’ve been lucky enough to direct multiple films across the documentary and drama forms, but also enjoyed collaborating frequently with other directors as a cinematographer, editor, and sound designer. My aim, always, is to generate fully realised worlds for an audience to be immersed in, and to constantly rethink and reinvent how I can represent those worlds through the relationship between camera and subject, the use of sound, and the unique power of montage.'Ribbit', my final year project, is an expression of these tendencies. Nearly every scene takes places from a fixed camera position, observing moments in a family’s life as their bonds fracture. The camera follows and tracks the young child at the centre of the story as it is told through his senses. The conversations that take place above his head, the movement of people through spaces, the silences between words, the relationship between environment and individual.
