SHORT FILMS
A short travel through India
Filmed on iPhone while touring India (2018).
Yesternight
Inspired by Roman Polanski's Repulsion.
Created with Patricia Langa, Eleanor Perry & Charlie Knight (2017).
Maurice Ravel Plays Ravel:
Miroirs: II. Oiseaux Tristes
Inspired by the idea of dancing to an original recording by
Maurice Ravel playing his own music;
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
Filmed in Sicily (2016).
Marcel Proust in Berlin:
Swann's Way
Inspired by the writing of Proust, the city of Berlin and photos by Robert Mapplethorpe. Created with Patricia Langa and Will Thompson.
Filmed in 2018
ENT SPANT LAND
Based on The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot. (2016)
Animal Crossing
Dreaming of somewhere else. Music by Brian Eno. (2015)
Two hooded angels danced at the seashore
Filmed on a beach in Corwall while on tour with Corali Dance Company, a company comprised of dancers with learning disabilities. We played with the idea of being sea angels.
Fear from behind my
Hotel Window
Clips filmed in different hotels on tour.
Created with Eleanor Perry (2014).
Chair Leg
Playing with the idea of still life and what is infocus on
camera.Created with Eleanor Perry (2013).
Glass Menagerie
Based on play of same name by Tennessee Williams,
reflecting fragility of the music by Tobias Picker.
Costume by Ada Zanditon.
Created with Eleanor Perry & Patricia Langa (2013).
Backing Singers
Using simple projections of water at night and velvet with Blue
Velvet (Bobby Vinton) played backwards.
Created with Eleanor Perry and Alessandro Marzotto Levy
(2013).
La Vie En Rose
Created with my grandma Margaret Hay. It;s mainly about our love of tea and one another. (2013)
Turn Me
Inspired by the music of Brian Eno.
Created with Eleanor Perry (2013).
Lo Struscio
Filmed in Barga, Italy; this short takes inspiration from the
films of Federico Fellini, music of Nino Rota and costumes
(in film) by Kerry Bell. Performed by Eleanor Perry, Patricia
Langa, Ale Marzotto, Roseanna Anderson and
Joshua Ben-Tovim (2013).
meadows
Filmed in Maramures region of Romania.
Created with Eleanor Perry (2013).
Nobbin with a Robin
“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from
my inspiration.” Arthur Holitscher
Created with Eleanor Perry (2013).
two waiting
"There is always something melancholic about an empty
chair" Mehmet Murat Ildan. Created with Marion Gurcel
(2013).
In the Mists
Title taken from music by the same name; composed in 1912,
some years after Leoš Janáček had suffered the death of his
daughter Olga, the piano cycle reflects the sadness and
mystery of death.
Created with Thomasin Gulgec and Sonja Cullingford (2013).
Lost Found Goat
Filmed in Morocco with Patricia Langa, Roseanna Anderson, Joshua Ben Tovim, Eleanor Perry & Alessandro Marzotto Levy (2015)
Club Luna
Landing on an alien landscape. Filmed by Beachy Head.
Influenced by Nasa's recordings of space by Voyager
spacecraft.Created with Eleanor Perry (2012).
Hang
Based on life and Music of Erik Satie - "I am tired of always
dying with a broken heart." "I took to my room and let small
things evolve slowly."Created with designer/performer
Rebecca Slade (2012).
Schwing
A boy tries to dance with a girl.
Music by Luke Vibret. Created with Maria Hayday (2011).
Runner-up in Matthew Bourne's Choreographic Awards.