film
Documentary films on place, survey, and control.
Forensic in method, architectural in eye. No narration. No commentary.
film — completed 2026
Oxford Street
A survey of the road itself — its buses, deliveries, crossings and kerbs — from Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, made in the summer before traffic was removed from part of the street. Shot on a bicycle, on foot and from fixed points along the street. Not a portrait of the shops or the crowds, but a record of behaviour: the ordinary, unloved choreography of a road as it was.
film — in development
The Land Does Not Agree
the film
In 1747, William Roy arrived in the Scottish Highlands with a theodolite and turned a rebellious, ungovernable landscape into a flat drawing the Crown could control. This film retraces that survey — 250km by bicycle over five days, navigating by paper only. No GPS. The friction of navigating by map is the subject matter made physical.
The film follows Roy’s grid across three phases: the historical act of imposition, its ongoing legacy in the infrastructure of the present, and the implication for anyone moving through the landscape now. It ends at Rannoch Station, where the GPS switches back on and finds no memory of the previous four days.
methodology
The film will be shot in two registers. The first is static: locked-off frames from a tripod, the cartographer’s eye, precise and still. The second is handheld: the body’s experience of moving through the same terrain. The grid format — four portrait cells in a landscape frame, white seams visible — applies to the static material. The handheld footage runs in its own register. Both are decided on location, in front of the subject. The landscape determines it.
status
In development. Shooting spring 2027.