My short film ‘Procession’ has been shortlisted in the photography and video category for the Signature Art Prize. The winners will be announced on the 13th February. The finalists will be on show at the Bankside Hotel in Central London from mid February to the end of March.

In 2019, my video 14,000 metal boxes was shown at The Holden Gallery in Manchester as part of the John Ruskin Prize, finalists exhibition. The same film was also screened at the Small Axe Film Festival.

I have just released my latest short video titled ‘Procession’. The video is the fourth in a series of videos exploring the impact of global trade and consumer culture on the environment. The first in the series, ‘14,000 boxes’ was a finalist in the 2019 John Ruskin Prize.

‘Procession’ includes audio recorded using both surface and homemade underwater microphones.

Homemade hydrophone (underwater mic)

Recording foley splashes for Procession sound track

My video ‘14,000 metal boxes’ has been shortlisted for the Small Axe Film Festival. The public screenings of all shortlisted films takes place in a vintage mobile cinema bus! http://smallaxe.radicalfilm.org.uk

Produce, Consume, Dispose, Repeat…….

Our modern economies are now highly dependent on consumer spending. When in recession, governments often rely on a ‘consumer led recovery’ to bring the economy into the black. ‘Consumer confidence’ is a measure of the strength of an economy. Uncontrolled consumption however is unsustainable. In the west, we are consuming goods at an ever greater speed, the resources we consume are difficult or impossible to replenish while the carbon released and pollution created is leading to a rapidly degraded natural environment.

A fleet of huge container ships is needed to bring the goods we consume to our doors in The West. The ship in the video carries up to 14,000 containers. The largest currently at sea carry around 21,000 containers and there are plans to build even larger ships in the near future.

The video has been created as part of a project I am working on in my MA in Fine Art.