What is hiding beneath our surface?
What are our thoughts conveying?
What are we longing for?
The return to a homeland is often a contemplative one. Drawing inspiration from my great grandfather’s poetry, the journey explores the emotional bond between myself as an artist and my birthplace - Madeira Island. Raised in the island, before creating a new life in the UK, the natural landscape and strong connection with my family is revisited and reconstructed. Confident of opening up about my own vulnerability, this work allows me to communicate and share my feelings as visual poems - a love letter to the island.
You Lost Me Nowhere is a fashion film that was born from the urge of feeling and emotion. Talking about death and grief can be a theme that people let living inside them rather than sharing with other people. Through this film I explore Loss and it’s different stages, through the passage of time, in a metaphorical and poetic way. Without the use of a voice-over to tell the story, just visuals and ambience sound, I hope that the audience can relate more deeply into what I created, because what sometimes goes around in our minds usually stays in there. Or comes alive on film.
This short fashion film is an evocation to Mother Nature from a romantic point of view and explores the relationship between human beings and the Earth. It is a sensorial film that transports the viewers into the natural world. The characters in this film, detached from the material possessions, are wanderers and sensitive beings, who are aware of the current environmental issues and find in Nature their cure and a purpose of preserving it.
This film was a client brief film for Element skateboard brand and was shot in Madeira Island, Portugal.
Human beings tend to let their anger and frustrations inside them, however, letting go of these feelings is a way of liberation and healing. Dancing is a way of releasing that negativity that can live inside our bodies and minds. It is the most complete way of self-expression, as people are able to use their whole body, “mind and soul” to move and scream. And every person’s path of healing is singular. In this film I uncover the the dimensions and depth of anger, through the documentation of a group of contemporary dancers from Falmouth University.