Natural History

Desiring Objects is an experimental animation using discarded plastic to imagine a post-human future in which our commodities have outlived us and evolved into strange life forms of their own. It also interrogates the theatrical aspect of our understanding of the natural world as portrayed in mass media.

Created using collage, stop motion animation, pixillation, and live action footage. Inspired by Nicolai Gogol’s short story, “The Nose” follows the peregrinations of a part who has left the whole to begin its own subversive narrative.

"Akkadian Night Music" is an experimental film using animated flour, puppetry, and stop-frame animation. Inspired by dream sequences from the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, the film enacts a night-theater where nature, denial, regret, and acceptance dance together in a meditative space.

Stop motion animation.

“Mutabilitie Cantos” explores the amusing existential misadventures of a loose baggy monster and an objective world that refuses to behave as expected. “Mutabilitie Cantos” is a Beckettian buddy comedy between a depressed beast and the darkly unpredictable universe in which he finds himself. It is an animated film using stop-motion and pixillation.

Animation created using two dimensional cutouts, natural settings, and digital glitches. In this animated painting, a group of strange beings are drawn to a mysterious mountain. They make their way through a natural landscape altered by technological mishaps. Sound environment created using painting studio objects such as brushes and paint bucket lids.

Experimental animated dance film commissioned by the 2021 Irish Dance Festival.

This wordless opera is animated and performed by the rising and falling of loaves of bread dough. Inspired by Baroque opera staging, Victorian monodrama, and contemporary design, it explores the corporeal body through the air that passes through it. Funded by a generous grant from Idea Capital.

Stop motion animation using handmade miniatures and time-lapse manipulation. Loosely based around images and ideas from Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” and Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space.” Collaboration with Colin Wheeler.

Documentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.