Commissioned 45 second teaser promoting an advertising campaign between NPower and Aardman Animations.

Featured on the Guardian online.

(2009)

As part of the Jerwood Studio at Sadler's Wells, choreographer Hofesh Shechter explores the possibilities of combining dancers and drummers.

(2008)

A film exploring the many relationship between various forms of hip hop dance
and jazz music.

This film continues the ideas from 'Comedy, Music and Dance' which is also viewable on this site.

As in that film the images were recorded first, this time of people dancing to hip hop, funk and breakbeat music. These images were then edited to an alternative soundtrack consisting of jazz music and spoken word.

(2007)

Three unique and separate elements, a dancer, some music by Quincy Jones and a joke by Adele Givens are combined to create one seemingly related piece.

It should be noted that the dancer was not hearing either the music or the joke. Only later were they sourced and added.

I am interested in how the brain can make assumptions about relationships between sound and image that are not necessarily there.

As part of the Jerwood Studio project at Sadler's Wells, choreographer Matthew Bourne talks about creating duets for male dancers.

(2007)

Music video for the the Grand Rose Band, now sadly no more. Shot in 4 separate takes and stitched back together.

A student film completed in 1999 and based on a secretly recorded phone conversation (1995) between my mother and a friends mother about their teenage sons.

For creative reasons, I removed most of the other side of the conversation leaving mainly my mothers words.

Dub FX, the brilliant performer using beatbox and loops on the street in Bristol, UK.

This film was made to go in with an exhibition of paintings by David Cox. David makes paintings based on jamaican dub records and wanted a 'version' of his work remixed into a film.

We decided to make all the effects optically and organically and so David made mobiles and objects that we could animate, sometimes using a record player to drive the actions.

Music by the Eternals
Paintings and installations by David Cox
Film by Ben Dowden

Popin' Pete talks about his relationship with music and dance. We then see him freestyle during a workshop at Breakin' Convention.

(2008)