Documentaries worked on (and enjoyed)
Strike: An Uncivil War (2024)
1x90 Minutes, (Daniel Gordon, 2024)
The Battle of Orgreave, recounted by those who lived through it, is contextualised through the history of the British mining union and a government that was hell-bent on breaking it.
My work with the miners’ strike archives started on the My Dad… film (see below) and continued in 2021 with this deep dive into the coal disupte of 84/85. I am Archive Consultant on this film. Hours of footage digitised and found, and new perspectives on Orgreave discovered.
Shirley And Roland (2025)
1x30 Minutes, (Alex Wilson, 2025, TBC)
Since 2019 I’ve been working with Sheffield-based performance artists Shirley Cameron and Roland Miller in organising and digitising their archives.
They have enjoyed a long and celebrated international career of over 40 years in the arts. Their Sheffield home is a living archive of sculptures, posters, photography, artefacts, and sound recordings alongside a hundred hours of video tapes and films which Memory Dance has digitised.
Over time, this project, accidentally, became a documentary. Directed by me. And here we are. 30 minutes of archive dreams and images. Coming to a screen in 2024 (hopefully).
Thanks to Funders Sheffield Film Fund/Sensoria.
ENO (2024)
1x90 Minutes, (2024, Gary Hustwit)
From 2020-22 I had the pleasure to work on digitising a massive private video archive for a documentary in process about Brian Eno. It premiered in Jan 2024, at Sundance Film Festival. Some words…
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in this ground-breaking generative documentary: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit brings to the Sundance Film Festival the first career-spanning documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno. This innovative bio-doc also elevates the documentary form to become an evergreen, algorithmic performance.
Hustwit and creative technologist Brendan Dawes have developed a bespoke generative software designed to sequence scenes and create transitions out of Hustwit’s original interviews with Eno, and Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, and unreleased music. Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, music, and meant to be experienced live.
Yorkshire Cop: Police, Racism And Me (2021)
1x60Minutes, (Alex Thomas, Channel 4, 2021)
I had the immense privelege to work as archive producer on this special doc about Bill Thomas, the first Black male police officer in South Yorkshire.
Alongside his son Alex, he revisits 40 years of public service: the battles, the racism, and the friendships of a remarkable career.
It was a remarkable story, a personal one, and as it was produced during the Covid times made it feel even more powerful. We discovred some ultra-rare and unique archive VHS to go inside as well.
Lloydie (2020)
1x25 Minutes, (Shefield Museums, 2020)
Lloyd Stewart has been part of Sheffield’s boxing, bodybuilding and gym community since the 1960s and is well-known and respected for his fitness, success and mentoring of others. He began training as a boxer, moving from amateur to professional status as a light heavyweight. He retired from boxing after an injury, but kept on training and started a new career as a natural bodybuilder in his late 30s. A display in Weston Park Museum showcases Lloyd Stewart’s accomplishments through photographs, trophies, programmes, personal items from his archive, and a film about natural bodybuilding featuring Lloyd and his friends.
Mind On The Run - The Basil Kirchin Story (2017)
1x40 Minutes, (NOVA STUDIOS, 2017)
The remarkable story of the great 'lost' British composer and musician Basil Kirchin who died penniless in 2005. I worked as archive researcher on this one-off piece which premiered at City of Culture Hull 2017. Recently, finally brought back to life online in 2023. And available to rent on VIMEO.
Being a child of Hull, East Yorkshire. This one meant a lot. Thanks to Matt and Nova for having me.