Creative work
VR / XR / Documentary
frame documentary
Frame Documentary is my most recent and large-scale creative project. Alongside Alice Burgin, I established Frame in 2019 as a multi-year creative incubator devoted to exploring the language of documentary using emerging media.
Working with a cohort of artists each year, Frame operates through workshops, mentorship, peer learning, critical reflection, and creative development. Our creative and pedagogical approach emphasises practice-led research, iterative making, and the translation of creative work into research.
Frame has supported and incubated award-winning emerging media documentaries, read more about these on our website, and watch the video above.
the turning Forest (VR)
The Turning Forest is a real-time CG VR experience for people young and old— inviting audiences into a magical space of imagination, where rustling leaves are also the footsteps of something familiar, yet strange. In this place things are not quite what they seem. Featuring award-winning interactive sound, this fairy tale in virtual reality from VRTOV and the BBC was directed by Oscar Raby, written by Shelley Silas, and produced by me.
Winner of multiple awards, this project screened at festivals wordlwide including Tribeca Storyscapes.
easter rising: Voice of a rebel (VR)
Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel lets users step into the memories of Willie McNeive and journey back in time to a moment that changed Irish history forever: the Easter Rising of 1916. Voiced by Game of Thrones’ Liam Cunningham, Willie guides users on a journey back to Dublin when he was 19 years old, and a participant in the Easter Rising.
Through a remarkable, and very personal insight into this a key moment in European history, Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel presents an artistic journey into the memory of an ordinary man who was swept up into an extraordinary event.
This Lovie Award winning project was a commission of the BBC, and made by VRTOV and Crossover Labs. It was directed by Oscar Raby, and produced by me.
a thin black line (VR)
An animated documentary in interactive real-time Virtual Reality, A Thin Black Line invites the audience to step into a pivotal event in the history of one family, and a nation, as seen by a young child.
Directed by Douglas Watkin, with VR direction by Oscar Raby and art by acclaimed Aboriginal artist Vernon Ah Kee, A Thin Black Line tells the story of a family’s struggle to stay together in the face of war.
With thanks to Patricia Watkin for generously sharing her family’s story, this project was commissioned by SBS Australia and made with the support of Screen Queensland and Screen Australia.
the unknown patient
In 1916, a man was found wandering the streets of London in an Australian soldier’s uniform. He did not know who he was. He was deemed unfit for service, labelled a ‘deserter’, and sent to Sydney’s Callan Park Mental Asylum where he would spend 12 years without an identity: lost and forgotten. How he came to be found is the remarkable true story of The Unknown Patient.
This project was made by VRTOV and Unwritten Endings. It was directed by Michael Beets, and co-produced by me and Bethany Jones. It premiered in completion at the Venice Film Festival.
Awards
Webby award
2017
TVB Europe award
2017
lovie award
2017
Google play award
IDFA Immersive non-fiction award nominee
2016
2017
tribeca storyscapes award nominee
2016
Adelaide film festival VR award
2018