Filmed on location at Purdown Bristol. This is an historic WW2 site under threat by developers. In my film the developers are represented by powerful mystical forces. The caretaker has no desire to aid the destruction of Purdown and the strange beings that dwell in our shared history. Up against superior forces, he can only help the creatures move on.
2022
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
My second MA student film.
To many the language of Shakespeare has become difficult, strings of archaic words with lost meanings. For others the language of multiplayer online video games is silly and incomprehensible. Both these languages enrich our experience through play and performance. Expanding the treasury of our imagination. Creating shared intimacies that bring us together.
2021
Paper Planes
My first MA student film.
Loosely based on Orpheus’s journey to the underworld. The soldier travels to an alien planet believing he has made a deal with Time itself for the return of his wife. Time is making paper planes torn from its own body; eventually time itself will run out. The soldier, oblivious to wider concerns, has taken a gun to offer in exchange for his wife. Thus humanity provides the tool for its own destruction.
2021
Sshripp Making Paper Planes
My creature Sshripp. This is my first attempt to create a creature that could rip paper off its body to make planes. It went on to become Time in the film Paper Planes.
2021
Red Cushion
The last of my three short films made at the grief of losing my mother during the pandemic. The cushion’s softness and crushing weight against the containing paper body felt right. Voice kindly provided by Rhianna Compton.
2021
Black Devil Disco Club, Synth is Not Love – Creepshow Remix
Created and directed by Janine Rook for Lo Recordings with Sculpture Theatre by Harriet Aston
2021
Remember Me
The second short film I made at the grief of losing my mother. ‘Dido’s Lament’ from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. This song has always haunted me. I show Aeneas being challenged to recognise the loss suffered by condemning Dido to her fate.
2021
She Moved Through The Fair
he first short film about grief, recognising my mother’s Irish roots and her love of music. The creature continues to care for its lost love. Sung by Max Sterne. Piano Peter Dews.
2020
Creature Finds White Hands
Entering the enforced enclosure imposed during the first Pandemic lockdown allowed the creature to make new discoveries about itself. Before returning back to isolation.
2019
Moon
The first of two dance videos performed by Dominique Baker in my sculpture installation at Centerspace Gallery Bristol. Filmed and edited by Orion Grant.
2019
Introducing, Circomedia Bristol
Having been invited to perform our work at Circomedia, we used my large sculptures to build a set in which the creatures could create their improvised performance. Performers include Kit Sky Alper, James Williams, Zyn and Max Sterne.
2021
Umbrella
Creature finds an umbrella for the first time, and shares its discovery with a friend.
2019
Reed Bed
A winter’s morning amongst the reeds of Middlesex Filter Beds, East London. The creature hears the wind in the reeds while greeting the dawn.
2019
Creatures Have Names
Creature workshop in London with Rhianna Compton and Adam Courting. With Anna Herzog and Max Sterne asking questions.
2019
Adam and Max, Hackney Downs, London
On Hackney Downs a creature goes on the rampage; has fun disrupting traffic and meeting humans. With Adam Courting and Max Sterne.
2019
Family Portrait
Having created the set and creature, I was reminded of Japanese family portraits taken prior to the terrible destruction caused by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creature brings shoes, preparing the couple for the photograph. Orion Grant, not knowing I had made this connection, added a Japanese song from the same period while editing the video. Serendipity.
2019
Dancing Shoes
Creature finds someone’s high heeled shoes. Checking the coast is clear, tries them on.
2018
Lost Ways
The second show created by Alice Lamb and Max Sterne using Sam Irving’s poem ‘Potential’ as its theme. Performed in my sculpture exhibition at Centerspace Gallery, Bristol.
2018
Chorus
The first performance held in one of my sculpture exhibitions at Centerspace gallery, Bristol. Written and performed by Alice Lamb, Max Sterne and Sam Irving. Using Sam’s poem ‘Potential’ as the backbone for the work. The sculptures reminded me of the role of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.
2017
No Matter
Students from Manchester Metropolitan Acting Dept. visited Bristol and created a performance in the Chocolate Factory, Centerspace. I gave them lines from Samuel Beckett’s Horstward Ho!, a sea shanty and my sculptures. This is their creation. Players: Holly Ashman, Rhianna Compton, Lucy Glassbrook, Anna Herzog, Sam Irving, Max Sterne and Paddy Young. Piano: Peter Dews.
