Participants utilised their newly found filming skills and knowledge of gender based violence to produce this video, hoping that it will be used as a tool to engage others in conversations about the importance of gender equality and the actions that can be taken to prevent violence against women.

All the participants interviewed each other, learned to work in small crews to shoot and do sound for sit down and observational environments, and performed thematic motifs as b-roll. It was made all in one room. I edited the final product.

For more information go here:

https://dpvhealth.org.au/ https://www.whittleseacommunityconnections.org.au/ 

As part of the 2018 program I mentored a group of four young Syrians who responded to the theme of belonging. They created a powerful short hybrid film titled ‘Stay Strong’, utilising green screen, autobiographical storytelling, and metaphorical performance to express the injury of distance and hope for future.

Visit the website 2017 here: http://ourvoicesproject.org.au/

The project has been funded by the state government of Victoria, as represented by the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

We need to talk about 1917. 1947. 1948. And we need to talk about today, as the already displaced communities of Naqab Bedouin Palestinians are displaced yet again by the demolition of their homes for forest projects of the Jewish National Fund (JNF).”

I mentored Yael and Liam to shoot and edit this short video for AJDS social media in October 2017.

Go here for more information https://www.ajds.org.au/

cohealth is a not-for-profit community health organisation that provides vital local health and support services including medical, dental, allied health, mental health, aged care and counselling, and many specialist health services across Melbourne’s CBD, northern and western suburbs. For more information visit https://www.cohealth.org.au/

My role: shooting and editing. Thanks to Corey Green for on location sound.

You can support the Ending Extinction Bill by sending a copy to your local MP >>http://www.geco.org.au/support_the_ending_extinction_bill

Roger Waters on Palestine – highlights from Aust Palestine Advocacy Network on Vimeo.

For more information head to their website https://apan.org.au/ or their facebook.

Using found footage and archival material as metaphorical architecture, Acting Erratically explores the relationship between state violence and mental health on the bodies of neurodivergent women of color in NYC.

15mins. Made in 2017. Currently in distribution.

Co-directors and editors: Tuff Guts, Daniel Goodman, and Davey Field.
Producers: (as above), Christopher Paul Harris, and Nikita Price.
Assistant directors: Maya Yu Zhang, and Christopher Paul Harris.

Made in collaboration with Black Youth Projects 100 (NYC Chapter) and Picture the Homeless.
Mentored by Akosua Adoma Owusu.
Made as part of the ‘Just to Get By’ Collaborative Studio at UnionDocs.

2018 Film Festivals and Awards

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival – NYC, USA – Vanguard Award for Experimental Film

Festival of (In)Appropriation – Los Angeles and Seattle, USA

Kasseler Dokfest – Kassel, Germany

Impugning Impunity Human Rights Film Festival – NYC, USA

Experiments in Cinema Film Festival – Albuquerque, USA

Stop Stolen Generations is a growing movement against the unprecedented systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families across Australia. Grandmothers Against Removals are leading this movement.

This video was shot and edited by me under the direction of GMAR in 2015.

3.50mins

Public projection works (with sound) made for the West Projections part of the Wynter Projects festival in Footscray in 2015.

5.08mins

Here was my accompanying write up.

The Freedom Files
January 13th 2015.

A hunger strike begins in the Manus Island detention centre. After 1 week 900 asylum seekers are participating. They demand the transfer of all those in detention to the Australian mainland and a fair and timely processing of their claims while they live in the Australian community.

The hunger strike lasts for a total of 13 days.

During the strike there are numerous cases of self harm. 15 people sew their lips together, 4 people swallow razor blades and 2 people ingest detergent. Hundreds of people require medical treatment from exhaustion.

60 asylum seekers are singled out and taken to Lorengau prison in central PNG where they remained for a number of weeks without charge. A further 35 are taken to Chauka Compound for solitary confinement.

Transfield security, the PNG police and Wilson security coordinate efforts to end the hunger strike. There are systematic beatings within the detention centre and at Lorengau prison. Water is denied for 2 days. There are raids on compounds to break the will of the hunger strikers.. They confiscate people’s fans, MP3 players, sheets and, most importantly, their mobile phones. These phones are the primary way asylum seekers keep in contact with family, media, and lawyers to negotiate their struggle for freedom.

During the hunger strike, boxes of Freedom brand muesli bars were rejected by Transfield on Manus Island on account of being too provocative for the demands of asylum seekers. These bars were then transferred to the mainland where they now remain in the Australian community while they are being processed in a fair and timely manner…

Using food as a mechanism, this set of works aims to explore the contradictory nature of advertising and its relationship to struggle. Where branding can normally be seen as an expression of alienated desires, in this case it was seen by Transfield to motivate an unwanted real hope. The word ‘Freedom’ became reified in response to the strength of the hunger strike, emerging in the otherwise banal dreamscape of advertising as an agent provocateur with lived meaning. The power of the product over and above the agency available to asylum seekers on Manus was made abundantly clear.

This work interrogates my ability to listen and speaks my solidarity to Manus Island and the powerful movement for dignity and freedom that occurred there this year.

#ShutDownManus