ALL SHADES OF GREY

3 x 6 min. HDV 2008

Part 1 - Two Eritrean girls enchant with fragmentary tales of escaping their country and what it really feels like being a child refugee, alone in London.
A intimate portrait, highlighting the emotional fallout of political conflict commissioned for London Borough of islington's "Kick Islamophobia" campaign.

 

     
 
ANATOMY OF FAILURE

53 min. DigiBeta 2008

An unorthodox biopic about Carlos Castaneda, 60ies cultural icon and author of The Teachings of Don Juan, takes the form of fragmented portraiture, touching on failures of love, power relationships and myth-making.
In a series of Californian road trips projected realities become as contradictory, as the wildly differing characters encountered in this film.
The filmmaker meets a concoction of Castaneda associates who are all invested in telling her about the man. But what remains in shadow is the story of five disappeared women believed to have been part of Castaneda’s ‘harem’, as well as the discovery of bones at the edge of Death Valley, belonging to one of the missing women. Trying to find out what hooked these women on the cultish guru figure the filmmaker unveils some uncomfortable ‘truths’ she was unaware of, about herself.

"an intensely personal piece of work" - Michael Grigsby, Filmmaker

"a fascinating study of the power of myth and personality" - Shannon Abel, Hot Docs Programmer

     
 
gLASSsHRIMP



14min. DV 2003

Profile on London based art collective, which publishes a magazine,
promotes club nights and presents a weekly radio show on Resonance 104.4fm

 

     
  HOME TRUTHS



5 min. DVCAM 2002

Candid & lively tales from 3 ex-rough sleepers.
It’s not all bleak!

Broadcast on LWT. PRS award ‘Best Use of Original Music’






     
  BACK TO BASICS



5 min. DVCAM 2002

Portrait of Somali muslim women exploring art and life in London.
Top Ten in LWT’s Whose London?

Competition Judges: Isaac Julien, Mariella Frostrup, Tamara Ingram,
Melvyn Angell, Christy Swords.