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A visualisation of Spennser's multimedia poem for Year 11 English Advanced. He had to write the poem based around his chosen quote from a Gwen Harwood poem. He chose “Dreams drip to stone” from Oyster Cove (1971). The story follows a middle-aged woman who regrets the choices she made in her prior years.
A creative figure must reckon with others more powerful than them and forces beyond their control. Intended as a depiction of the tension between machines and man, the natural and the unnatural, especially in relation to art and sociality.
A young boy in Australia attempts to cope with the Covid-19 lockdown all alone in his apartment.
A modern reinterpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (1837), comprised solely of still images.
An amateur killer goes to their hideaway, awaiting their partner in crime, who doesn’t show. Soon, the paranoia begins to settle in. Made for a competition, where the key word was “spring”, which is incorporated into the story through implied backstory, as the two partners killed their target via bomb triggered by bed spring. The film received a "Highly Commended", and some of the judges included Leah Purcell and Justin Kurzel.
On Christmas Eve, Deirdre must rescue Erik from his own false realities when he treats his ventriloquist dolls as stand-ins for the parents he’s estranged from.
An environmental film shot in the Blue Mountains.
5-month-old rescue kittens (and blood sisters) Clementine and Sage react to the first ever bout of heavy rain they’ve experienced. The heavy rain makes their typical boisterous and playful actions screech to a halt, as they begin to mirror the rain’s dreary, lull-like nature in their own temperaments. Ch1: The film goes from the inside of a mixing bowl catching dripping water. The kittens are hesitant at first, but soon both stare out the window (Ch2), edited as indistinguishable from one another, as they both partake in the same curiosity towards the rain. Ch3 sees the kittens find peace with their new discovery, and rest, while the world itself moves on - much like how we exit from the bowl, and end up becoming attached to the cats, the end of Ch3 sees us attached to a window, peering in, making audiences believe Ch4 would be from the perspective of the world entire. Each chapter becomes more consequential, larger, and less isolated, as if becoming privy to the world.
A short film on ADHD that was made as part of a Visual Arts high school class assessment.
After the death of his mother and grandfather in an accident hanging off a Sky Safari, young Azlin must learn to move on, grow up all too quickly, and defend his house from a demon who wants to steal the land on which he sits to make a profit. Azlin’s entire family have now been buried in the yard of this house, he’s a part of it, and so he must stop his home from being sold off. All the while, dreams and reality, day and night, childhood and the loss of innocence, are all visually juxtaposed to display Azlin’s emotional evolution and maturation.