VIDEO PIECES

CASTA DIVA - memento mori
(September 2020) 

This video was created in response to Marina Abramovic's opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. Made with dead insects I have been finding and collecting throughout the summer.

BEETLE BALLETS - no.1 to no.11 
(March - April 2020) 

This is a collection of short video pieces I created whilst under Covid-19 lock-down.
Somehow the metaphor of a beetle that can't get back up spoke to me about the wider context and my personal experience. In the beetles' mostly failed attempts to turn themselves over and escape from their boxes and off screen, something begins to emerge.... Something beautiful and vulnerable. Something calm and frantic. Something haphazard and graceful. Something filled with futility and resolve.

LA DEMOCRACIA NO ES UNA LOTERÍA, ES ALGO QUE  NOS HACEMOS A NOSOTROS MISMOS /DEMOCRACY IS NOT A LOTTERY, IT'S SOMETHING WE DO TO OURSELVES (22nd December 2017) 
On the 21st December 2017, Catalonia was forced by the central government in Madrid, to have elections for its regional parliament. The 22nd December 2017 was the day of the famous lottery draw of El Gordo. This prompted a rough and ready video experiment. A little reflexion about the Catalan question. The text's intonation echoes the way the children of San Ildefonso ‘sing’ the numbers and prices.
​Watch the original broadcast of the lottery draw here. An English translation of my text is available under the YouTube comments on the video.

Masculine Expressions of My Creative Prowess (July 2017) 

This series of videos was created within the context of the polymorphously-perverse performance project of the same title. They are a parallel collaboration with award-winning videographers Guillermo Alcala-Santaella, (teasers 1, 2, 3) and Jason Brooks (teaser 4). The videos were published ahead of the the project 'outing' at Camden People's Theatre as part of 'Come As You Are' in September 2017. They were accompanied with the tagline:Tirelessly hacking away at 'masculinity' and digging for gold... What lies under the surface?          

P33 (March 2016) 


P33 started as an image, and my perverse desire to buy myself a crown of thorns for my 33rd birthday (17/03/16). This video piece primarily serves as a solipsistic marker for this significant date (Jesus was 33 when he was supposedly crucified). It employs religious iconography and a Spanish Easter march  (El Cachorro, The Puppy) in a resolutely carnivalesque fashion which is both apotheosic and derisive. Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. P33 is a collaboration with Jason Brooks, who edited the footage he shot at Reculver (Kent).

Memento Mori (January 2013) 

The Latin warning “memento mori”, translates as “remember death”, or “remember you must die”. Though stand-alone and created independently, these pieces were conceived in the context of Accidental Collective's here is where we meet.  This stage production, inspired by John Berger's homonymous semi-autobiographical novel, weaved together his vivid stories with our own, in an attempt to sort through memories and fictions as if they were objects found in a dusty attic. A creative tangent of sorts, Memento Mori further explored this preoccupation with mortality by employing a baroque aesthetic, visually as well as aurally (the music is by Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer at the court of Louis XIV). Like the theatre production which led to it, this video piece sought to open up a meditative space to contemplate the passing of things.