I’m a videographer, living and working in the rural north east of Scotland. I absolutely love collaboration and spend most of my spare time taking part in local theatre productions, creating scripts and storyboards as well as shooting short film projects. I’ve spent the majority of my working life in a creative domain and spent several years working as a theatre arts support officer for a local theatre company, specialising in training adults with learning differences in media, content creation and theatre arts. One way or another, I’ve had the privilege of making many connections and friendships with fellow creatives and as a videographer, I have the means to explore the medium of short film with them.
My hope is that telling compelling stories and creating meaningful and insightful characters is something that can happen anywhere, and that living in a rural community is not necessarily a barrier to entry when it comes to the medium of film. I’m very interested in showing some of the vulnerabilities that we all feel as human beings in a way that’s sometimes bleak, but sometime up-lifting.
Ambivalence is something that I seek to capture as I feel that it’s something we come across almost every day but have only examined sparingly In film.
With “Marina” we hope to entertain, amuse, surprise and provoke a conversation regarding the emergence of artificial intelligence in a light-hearted way.