Shelley Hopkins is an artist-filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between sound, material transformation and perception. Working with analogue and experimental processes, she films everyday substances, chemical reactions and altered film stock, often at magnified scales. Developed through close collaborations with musicians, her films emerge through an iterative dialogue between image and sound, creating immersive audiovisual works. Screenings include Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Altered Images, Darkroom Festival, New Jersey Independent Film Festival, Ghent International Film Week and Ardennes International Film Festival. BECOMING has won awards for Best Experimental Film, Best Installation Film and Best Avant-Garde Film.