I'm an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in the UK.

Currently I'm developing my feature documentary debut Wolf Park, produced by Anita Norfolk (Folk Film, Norway). We are beneficiaries of Screen Scotland development support, Creative Europe MEDIA funding, The Swedish Film Institute; it was part of Eurodoc 2023, and pitched at Festival de Cannes 2024 for the Scottish Showcase.

My work is presented at film festivals, conferences, and museums. Highlights are winner of the Jury Prize at Ann Arbor Film Festival 2019 for Wolves From Above, and screenings at e.g. Festival Du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Full Frame, Hamptons IFF, Edinburgh IFF, Planet in Focus, Wroclaw Media Art Biennale, Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp [M HKA], FACT Liverpool, and The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul [MMCA].

My practice and research interests relate to depicting other worlds: interactions between animals, darkness and the night, sci-fi, ecologies of the sea, land, sky and exchanges in-between, as well as the role of happenstance in art-making, sensuality, empathy, and women's histories. Alongside directing, I usually take on another crew role as cinematographer, sound recordist or editor.

In 2020 I completed a PhD in Film Production (Liverpool John Moores University) with thesis title: Empathising with Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity in Documentary Film. Additionally, I obtained a BA Hons Archaeology (University of Amsterdam, 2008), MA Philosophy (University of Amsterdam, 2009), and an MA Documentary Filmmaking (Royal Holloway University of London, 2010).

From 2021-2023 I was Associate Professor and Deputy Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Filmmaking at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Before this from 2015-2021, I was Senior Lecturer for the BA (Hons) Film Studies, MA Film, and MA Art in Science at Liverpool John Moores University, England. I've also been tutor at Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh and worked at the Scottish Documentary Institute.

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Click here for an interview on Radio Robida reflecting on the limits of language and recording technologies in understanding non-human worlds and positions filmmaking as a practice-based mode of inquiry (22 Dec 2025).

Click here for an interview on the Into the Mothlight Podcast about my filmmaking practice. Recorded alongside the exhibition Wolves From Above, which Alchemy Film and Arts commissioned as a ceiling installation in 2019.