I had a bad year last year, lots of very serious family health issues piled up, one on top of the other, all year. This film (shot and recorded on my phone) attempts to document how it felt. The van is filmed driving around an empty Mental Health Hospital car park. Breakdown was a semi finalist at the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto & it has a Honorable Mention Laurel from Experimental Forum Film Festival 2020 in LA.

A collaborational piece of work between Dorothea Magonet (London) & Aliceson Carter (Dorset), made during Tier 4 to second lockdown November 2020 - January 2021 meaning that the artists couldn’t physically meet. Dorothea’s sculptural work made from painted ecofriendly paper bubble wrap (that arrived with her internet shopping), is animated via a performative Zoom video and Mobile Phone footage. This has then been collaged together with audio from tuning forks (C,A,G,E & D) hit against the artists studio doors, a studio clock and a hedge full of birdsong captured on a lockdown walk.

Made for https://artschaplaincy.net/projects/index/stations-2021/ an online exhibition of 36 Artists responses to the Stations Of The Cross at Easter.

During the Covid Lockdown I had been longing to see my adult children again and dance with my daughter. We both still had the sequin jumpsuits from our joint 21st & 50th Birthday party, we did a fun, mid party, entrance in them. We all danced until 3am and got to bed as the sun was coming up. The video attempts to mediate memory and longing via the parameters of lockdown. My daughter and I filmed ourselves with our mobile phones, whilst watching each other via an internet call. The dawn chorus of the morning after was recorded outside both addresses and plays separately, left and right. The video of the sun rising is viewed east to west. Exhibited in The Spiritual Exercises, an online exhibition hosted by Arts Chaplaincy Projects, mediating memory and longing via the parameters of the present during Covid19 Lockdown. The exhibition can be found at https://artschaplaincy.net/projects/index/the-spiritual-exercises/

Filmed in Pettigo on the Irish Border, the video attempts to sum up the feeling of uncertainty hanging over the communities living on, or near, the Irish border. It recieved a Honorable Mention Laurel from Experimental Forum Festival in L.A The 5min video is to played on a loop on a screen.

(admin note: This is the 2017 re edited, final version, it has replaced the first, test edit uploaded in June 2014). I was awarded an 'OFFICIAL SELECTION' LAUREL WREATH from The Blow-up Arthouse Film Fest 2018 for this film. In 2009 Kodak stopped making Kodachrome, in 2010 they stopped making the processing chemicals. The last lab in the world processing was Dwayne’s in Parsons, Kansas. Feeling driven to commemorate this moment in history I took my very last rolls of Kodachrome on a trip from London to Dwayne’s. This is the slideshow road trip film of my journey. A.G. Sulzberger's interviewed me for his 2010 piece in the New York Times article "For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas". The said article includes a piece about me and my journey.

Filmed on the south coast of Devon with a camera phone and a bucket of Sea; this film explores the actions and notions of coastal erosion and does it with reverence. It came form an overbearing urge to touch the sea water in the rock pools, and a similar compulsion to wet the rocks, to see them shine. This along with the hypnotic rhythm from the waves drew me to explore the actions of the water, creating an almost ritualistic action that is akin to a caress.

Footage of a holiday swimming pool is railroaded into an internal conversation about the Art in Video Art. As a Video Art maker I am aware of the unwatchability/watchability of the genre. It is obviously better to make work that holds the audiences attention and is viewed, but it is not T.V. nor a feature film and in turn there is something ‘other’ to it, maybe something pleasurably boring. In this I wanted to make a work that played with the challenge of the viewers engagement and attention.

An experimental mockumentary, playing with notions of natural history films and referencing various wildlife that makes it up the river Thames every now and then, only to perish after making it onto the t.v. news. The footage and photographic stills were shot on the same day and as the subject was ‘found’ the narrative formed whilst editing.

Playing with fonts and the notion of self.

4 x 4:3 screen installation piece. Filmed in Margate and inspired by Rodin's The Kiss and childhood holidays. The SUN & SEA is made from chopped up footage from the AMUSEMENTS sign, and the diver is set behind an alcove from the disused Lido in an effort to bring it back to life. The balls add a touch of irony.

Dead End was filmed in Texas when I happened upon a prolonged patch of fog. The fog lulls you into a space of contemplation and has a meditative effect, the edited car radio audio snaps you out of this state and returns you to the Dead End crossroads. To be played on a loop.

Made during Post Industrial Revolution Residency. I adapted a small rowing boat and made it into a Statek Pomnik (a monument ship), a homage to the Gdansk shipyard and its various struggles through history. I was towed around the shipyard island whilst broadcasting solidarity songs, the trip took around an hour and the resulting film was exhibited in the Post Industrial Revolution group show in Wyspa's Modelarnia Space, projected onto a found 8ft cube of polystyrene. There was also a performance piece where I sang a re-written version of 'Shipbuilding' with guitar accompaniment, luckily there is no recording of this.

Filmed on The Mall in London, played on a portable video player/screen on my back whilst standing on The Mall.

Made during the Tomma Rum residency in Tranas, these cruising events are held all over Sweden during the summer months.

Filmed at the last remembrance parade for a service man killed in action.

Filmed at the RA.

an a-n Interface and John Moores Gallery 2010 Bursary Partnership film. I was asked to make an artists response to the painting prize & exhibition.

1min edit from 2 screen projection onto 5th floor window, Ben Pimlott building, Goldsmiths Colllege. Part of Degree Show.

Looped video to be played on a monitor on the floor.

Video and audio from Charing Cross London.

Are We There Yet (Apres 40ans)? (2008) Exhibited at 1968: Impact and Implications Conference in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research 3rd - 4th July 2008 Birkbeck, University of London. The conference was timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of May 1968. I travelled from the Paris home of Marcel Duchamp (he died there in 1968) to Birkbeck College, London. I carried a urinal wrapped in bubble wrap. The resulting film is over 5hrs long and was projected in the foyer during the conference. The urinal was installed in the Ladies Toilets.