In September 2018, The Barbican Arts Centre put on a season of films to celebrate the Film and Video Workshop movement. My film, Welcome to the Spiv Economy, was selected. My work in film and TV as a director, producer, and executive producer was focused on long-form documentaries and idea-based series for BBC and Channel 4. Giles Perring had a strong influence on this film as he came to create the soundtrack for it with a colleague. After the Barbican showing, Giles and I had a series of conversations which resulted in the launching of the Exposure project. In the spring of 2023, we started working on a new film.
Shooting a street hockey team gliding through London’s abandoned Royal Docks for Welcome to the Spiv Economy, a 54-minute documentary produced by the Newsreel Collective.
In the years since I left the industry to develop an art practice, I have started to experiment with video. I shot the video for the Degrees of Freedom’s show The Republic of Brexitopia in September 2017. Then, as part of Exposure, Giles and I created a 20-minute video art piece.
During the Covid pandemic in summer 2020, I shot a six-minute lockdown video piece called Summertime.
Liana Bortolozzo and Christine Povey in the video for the exhibition The Republic of Brexitopia at Espacio Gallery, September 2017.
Unstable Elements is a 90-minute drama documentary produced by the Newsreel Collective, directed by me and Paul Morrison, and broadcast on Channel 4. This picture was taken outside the Rio Cinema, Dalston, where the film was shown.
Shooting SA Blues for BBC 2 — an exploration of the experience of exile with South African jazz musicians, here with Jonas Gwangwa.