FILM IN THEATRE

KINDLE

Almanac Theatre
Format: Fujifilm X-H2S with Anamorphic Adapter
Director (Trailer): Rachael Ann Walsh
Producer: Hattie Collins
Gaffer: Michael Sides
THEATRE TRAILER (2023)

HAMLET

Bristol Old Vic
Format: Blackmagic Pocket 4K
Director (Film): Tom Morris
Producer and Script Supervisor: Eleanor Field
Film Supervisor: Rhodri Huw
Vision Mixer and Co-Director: Eleanor Utting
Camera Operators:
Emma Vickers
Ben Davies
Ryan Francis
Amelia Wring
Tundun Adebanjo
THEATRE FILM (2022)

Directed by John Haidar, and starring Billy Howle, Hamlet was an incredible show and one of my favourite shoots to date. The final film is available to watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK.

GhOST SoNATA

Mechanimal
Format: Sony FS5
THEATRE TRAILER (2022)

THE GREAT GATSBY

The Wardrobe Ensemble
Format: Sony FX9/FS5
Director (Film): Tom Brennan
Camera Operators:
Matthew Joiner GTC
Michael Sides
THEATRE FILM (2021)

“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly.

Invited to an extravagant party in a Long Island mansion, young bachelor Nick Carraway is intrigued by the flamboyant host, Jay Gatsby; a self-made, self-invented millionaire with a mysterious past. As the two strike up an unlikely friendship, a cocktail soaked story of memory, money and lost love unfolds.

Directed by Tom Brennan, and produced by Matthew Whittle, The Great Gatsby was performed by Tamsin Hurtado Clarke and Jesse Meadows, and filmed alongside camera operators Matthew Joiner and Michael Sides.

VIGIL

Mechanimal
Format: Sony FX9/FS5
Director (Film): Tom Bailey
Camera Operators:
Matthew Joiner GTC
Michael Sides
THEATRE FILM (2021)

Bali Tiger.

Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Cinnamon-coloured Cryptic Treehunter, Psychedelic Rock Gecko, Fire Millipede From Hell.  

One human. Twenty-six thousand animals. A wild exploration of life in an age of extinction.

Directed and performed by Tom Bailey, we decided to go further than a normal theatre film and incorporate elements of location filming to make a troubling and heart-breakingly beautiful film. Filmed alongside Zugunruhe, these two films are the theatre films I am most proud of in my career so far.

ZUGUNRUHE

Mechanimal
Format: Sony FX9/FS5
Director (Film): Tom Bailey
Camera Operators:
Matthew Joiner GTC
Michael Sides
THEATRE FILM (2021)

Zugunruhe (zoo-gun-rue): an ornithology term for ‘migratory restlessness’ in birds. This show explores the incredible flight of a marsh warbler, the world’s only bird whose song echoes its migration route. Body-compasses, magnetic fields, African sunsets, star-chasing, storm-riding, homing… Zugunruhe offers a wild, fresh look at migration. Rehearsing among birds in the wetlands of Somerset, performer Tom Bailey creates a feast of bird behaviour alongside a digital sound map of the marsh warbler’s journey, made by composer Rowan Evans.

A filming sibling to Vigil, these two films were shot on location by myself, and in-situ at Pound Arts alongside camera operators Matthew Joiner and Michael Sides, with lighting design by Jen L. Roxburgh. Huge thanks to Pound Arts for their support and production work on both films.

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Ad Infinitum
Format: Sony F5 with Fujinon MK 18-55mm
Director (Trailer):  George Mann
TRAILER (2020)

Three coming-of-age stories, united in a struggle against violence, ignorance and oppression.
Ad Infinitum combine the company’s signature style of physical storytelling with the beauty of British Sign Language in an unmissable feast for the senses.
The trailer features original music by Sam Halmarack, design by Anna Orton & lighting by Jo Palmer. Thanks to camera assistant Dean Ayotte.

Raymond Briggs' father christmas

Pins & Needles/Lyric Hammersmith
Format: Sony FS7/FX9
Director (Show Film): Emma Earle
Camera Ops:
Matt Joiner GTC
Tomas Uragallo
FULL SHOW (2020)

Follow Father Christmas on the most important day of his year: Christmas Eve. As he gathers the reindeer and prepares his sleigh, Father Christmas begins the long journey into the snowy night to deliver presents to sleeping children all over the world. But things don’t run smoothly and he soon encounters soot covered chimneys to squeeze through and treacherous weather conditions, all while plenty of mischief is had by his cheeky pets, Cat and Dog.

Specially filmed for online streaming at Lyric Hammersmith, and directed by Emma Earle. Starring Marcus Hendry as Father Christmas.

VIGIL

Mechanimal
Format: Sony F5 with Contax Zeiss Primes
Director (Trailer): Tom Bailey
TRAILER (2019)

Bali tiger. Dusky seaside sparrow. Cinnamon-coloured cryptic treehunter. Psychedelic rock gecko. Fire millipede from Hell... One human. Twenty-six thousand animals. A wildly intimate, interspecies meditation on mass animal disappearance.

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RICHARD III

Headlong
Format: Sony FS7 with Fuji MK Zooms.
PROMO VIDEOS (2019)

A series of three promotional videos for Headlong's Richard III starring Tom Mothersdale, and directed by John Haidar.

THE NATURE OF WHY

Paraorchestra
Format: Sony FS7 and Panasonic EVA-1 with Nikon Zooms.
TRAILER (2018)

The Nature of Why, commissioned by Unlimited, merges dance and live music into an epic performance that brims with emotion and physical beauty. The show features a cinematic live-score from Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory, an ensemble of musicians from the British Paraorchestra and four extraordinary dancers.

NATIONAL THEATRE

National Theatre
Format: Sony FS7 with Fujinon MK Cine Zooms
(2017-2018)

Excerpts from freelance work for NT, including studio interviews for Playwrights Series, filming BTS for Top Girls and filming and editing a 10 minute behind the scenes mini-doc for Pericles.

POLLY

Steph Kempson and Marie Hamilton
Format: Sony FS7 with Nikon Zooms.
TRAILER (2018)

Macheath ran off to an island to f*ck Jenny Diver. Polly Peachum, his wife, stands on the shore and summons up a storm.
Join three weird women as they dance, drum, sing and slash their way through an adaptation of Polly, John Gay’s sequel to The Beggar’s Opera. Using bouffon, drag, and Berlin cabaret we present a work-in-progress showing that explores 21st Century politics and femininity through an 18th Century spyglass.

WICKED THE MUSICAL

Wicked UK
Format: Sony FS7 with Nikon Zooms.
PROMO VIDEO (2018)

A promo video for Wicked the Musical opening at Bristol Hippodrome.

ICE ROAD

Raucous
Format: Sony F3 with Samyang Primes.
Director (Trailer): Sharon Clark
TRAILER  (2017)

Leningrad. 1942.
The siege has begun.
“You are a cockroach, Tati. You will survive the hunger, the cold, fever and this war.” In the wreckage of an old apartment block, four orphans are compelled to join forces to survive the murderous Leningrad blockade. Through a cruel winter, enemy shelling and gnawing hunger, Leah, Zoya, Tati and Kub fantasise of escape on the only road out of the city – the ice road.

WHAT IF THE PLANE FALLS OUT OF THE SKY?

Idiot Child
Format: Sony F3 with Samyang Primes.
Director (Trailer): Stefano Petriocola
TRAILER (2017)

‘What if how you feel about the world and yourself at 4am, what if that is the truth? What if God does exist but you’re not allowed to go to heaven and everyone else is because they all hedged their bets and prayed in secret? What if I get killed in an avalanche and most people are slightly relieved that they now don’t have to read my novel? What if the only reason the plane is able to stay in the sky is because you are thinking really encouraging thoughts about the wings?’

THERE SHALL BE FIREWORKS

The Plasticine Men
Format: Red One MX with Zeiss CP.2 Primes.
Director (Trailer): Simon Day
TRAILER (2016)

A story from Afghanistan about a plan to change the world.
Inspired by the path to Afghanistan, well trodden down the ages whether by Western merchants, missionaries, hippies or soldiers, There Shall Be Fireworks unearths a startling true story from a 200-year-old cemetery in Kabul known as the Kabre Gora ('the Graveyard of Foreigners').
It's a send off.
An American stockbroker turned statesman, thwarted in one wildly ambitious plan to change the world for good, bids farewell once again to the land that he loves.

GHOST OPERA

Fellswoop Theatre
Format: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera with Samyang Primes.
Director (Trailer): Bertrand Lesca
TRAILER (2015)

Two strangers, both haunted by living ghosts in their everyday: one, her dying mother, and the other, his celebrity idol. Escaping to seek refuge at a spa retreat, the thirty year-old woman and the seventeen year-old boy meet, and together they try to resist becoming that which haunts them.

THE STICK HOUSE

Raucous
Format: Blackmagic Production Camera 4k with Zeiss ZE Primes.
Director (Trailer): Sharon Clark
TRAILER (2015)

In a country not so far away, in a time not far from our own, Marietta is about to turn 21. With a great howling from the forest and lilies left outside her house made of sticks, the beast marks his territory and waits to claim his prize. But now things are different. Now her love lies elsewhere. So there is no way she will go willingly.

PINK MIST

Bristol Old Vic
Format: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera with Samyang Primes.
Director (Trailer): Jack Offord
TRAILER (2015)

Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Arthur, Hads and Taff find their journey home is their greatest battle.