Still from 'Besides Influenza'. 2011

About the Movies:

Although interested in the possibilities of the medium for several years, I only bought my first movie camera in 2006 and editing software later that year. This meant that I missed the formative experience of handling celluloid film and went straight into teaching myself within the digital environment. With the limited means at my disposal I set about seeing what was possible with my miniature camera and a 'lite' version of Premier. I was also conscious that I needed to pursue a parallel interest in how these movies were to be disseminated. These were the early days of internet TV and I set up my own Channel - Ottica TV - in 2008 to explore this potential.

These movies are divided into several strands; experiments with my digital camera, placing it in unlikely environments and recording conditions, narratives composed of elements of footage from my travels and observations from within my art projects and studio practice. These frequently merge into one other and into other aspects of my art practice (for instance the 00 scale installations) acting as a drawing facility to illuminate concepts.

Narratives
Saturn Theory	Besides Influenza	Aphrodite Urania	Train Time
The Synaptic Sun
Observations
Heavenly Hydrocarbons	Kimmeridge Oil
Art Projects
Photon	Climate Model No2	Earth, Air.. Human Intervention
00 Scale Movies ( see the 00 Scale page for more : click )
Footfall Railroad	Night Train	Studio Railroad 01	Studio Railroad 02
Terminus	Train Time	Inconstant Heavens	Cereal City