Savvy Contemporary - Berlin - The Laboratory of Form-Ideas

I had the pleasure of working as sound recordist on the project Ocean Glory for Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, an Icelandic artist living and working in Berlin, part of an exhibition The Long Term You Cannot Afford.

Ocean Glory  MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE

'Ocean Glory' (2019) has been developed in collaboration with composer and art-director Guðný Guðmundsdóttir and choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir. Credits go to Laura Siegmund for performance, Nils Banthien for sound design, Dennis Helm for green screen camera and post-production, Siggi 'zoom' for drone camera operation, Sigfús Jónsson and Tim Maisey for sound recording, Erin Honeycut for text proofreading, Benjamin Gow and Tash Rolfe for location management and coordination. Editing and other camera work is credited to the artist. Special thanks go to Leighton Debarros, Sumanth Surendran and Sunna Jóna Guðnadóttir for goodwill and for Icelandic Art Fund for support.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir: Ocean Glory | Photo: Hannes Wiedemann

THE LONG TERM YOU CANNOT AFFORD. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOXIC Research, performance and exhibition project This project examines the complex notions and injustices surrounding the toxic and its ongoing power-plays, relations, and rhetorics that are deeply rooted in historical structures. Our aim is to open up a space for an artistic and critical registry that encourages us to pause and sense the toxic presences and textures otherwise, to acknowledge and mourn its ongoing victims, and to listen to the movement of its shadows. In so doing, we hope to shift sensibilities away from one of paranoid containment and fear to an outlook fueled by reflexivity and nuance, and to nurture the act of noticing how actions on the most intimate scale are closely tied to the global – as everywhere is ultimately a here.

H is for Happiness and Hope

Long shots and small wins.

An article on Medium I wrote, H is for Happiness and Hope, about working on a family feature film, and going for those long shots that just might take you in the direction you want to go.

Here is a review of the film from the Guardian.

Filming FOR DISABLED SURFERS GREAT SOUTHERN

It was a privilege to be asked to film a promotion for the Disabled Surfers Association Great Southern in Albany - a fantastic voluntary organisation helping those that wouldn’t normally be able to surf have a fantastic morning out at Middleton Beach catching waves and having fun.

After a morning filming on the Saturday and then just completing the draft edit on the Sunday, I got an enquiry from GWN7 News on Monday morning to use some of the film for their news item - click here or on the image below to see the GWN7 News clip.

Here is the full promotional film for Disabled Surfers Great Southern

H is for Happiness

I’ve been working as an intern on EPK BTS for the film ‘H is for Happiness’ (BTS is Behind the Scenes and EPK is Electronic Press Kit). EPK covers interviews with the cast and crew, behind the scenes of the filming, any special action shots and stunts and film of the general location. The EPK team (Producer Abi Tabone, EPK Camera Martin Lundmark and me on second camera) filmed Richard Roxburgh, Emma Booth, Miriam Margolyes, Daisy Axon, Wesley Patton as well as director John Sheedy, producers, crew and other actors. It has been a fantastic experience and thank everyone on ‘H is for Happiness’ for helping me out. Check out the south coast stories podcast interview

I put together a short BTS BTS as a bit of fun showing the sort of questions asked in the interviews.

Here is the trailer for the film:

Some of my footage has recently been used by GWN7 News for a segment about the filming in Albany and the crew spend in the region. I am even in a couple of the shots…with BTS, filming BTS, filming the filming…!

Click here or on the image below to see the news item: