Louis is a filmmaker and editor whose work explores how people shape—and are shaped by—their environment. His films have been shown at festivals worldwide (including PÖFF Black Nights, London Short Film Festival, BFI Future Film Festival and Norwegian Short Film Festival), and have won a number of awards. He's worked in cinema programming (for the Garden Cinema, London) and digital art (ZINC, Marseille), and as a projection designer in the UK and Iceland. As a freelance filmmaker, he's worked for a range of organisations, including the University of Cambridge. He works part time at the Institute of Art and Ideas, editing talks and debates on topics ranging from particle physics to psychedelics.
Louis is co-director of 'Moving House', a production company and arts organisation, specialising in short documentaries about the ways people relate to the places they live. In 2021 they made their first film in Kharkiv (Ukraine) - the award-winning ‘What Shall We Do With These Buildings?’ - about the legacy of Soviet architecture in the city, which was screened at festivals worldwide. In the wake of the full-scale Russian invasion, they spent much of 2022 organising fundraising screenings. In 2023 they were commissioned to make a community arts film in Basildon (UK), taking over a disused cinema in the town centre and mounting a multi-projector installation which screened over several days. In 2024 they made ‘Welcome to the Orchard of England’, a heritage film about the history and continued significance of apples in Leominster, Herefordshire. The film was commissioned by Leominster Priory with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and has screened at festivals worldwide, including Borderlines (UK), Kastellorizo (Greece) and Castine (USA), where it won best documentary.
They are currently in production with two more projects: a community film project in Diss, Norfolk, commissioned by the Essex Cultural Diversity Fund, and a documentary about the UK’s largest manufacturer of concrete garden ornaments, situated on the Isle of Sheppey.
