Painting (I)
(2016–2017) unreleasedSynopsis
A 30-second long moving shot of tree branches in the night is abstracted by slowing the original footage down to 360 minutes, rendering the movement in the shot imperceptible to the naked eye, in a sense undoing all that is conventionally considered cinema, revealing the tension between still image and moving image, and raising the question of the limits of optical perception, and what is cinema?
Technical Information
360 minutes
16:9 aspect ratio
2K resolution
Silent
iPhone 6 Plus
Edited with Final Cut Pro X
A 30-second long moving shot of tree branches in the night is abstracted by slowing the original footage down to 360 minutes, rendering the movement in the shot imperceptible to the naked eye, in a sense undoing all that is conventionally considered cinema, revealing the tension between still image and moving image, and raising the question of the limits of optical perception, and what is cinema?
Technical Information
360 minutes
16:9 aspect ratio
2K resolution
Silent
iPhone 6 Plus
Edited with Final Cut Pro X

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Filmography
In Production
Completed
2025
2020
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Unreleased
In Production
- Within Without Horizon
- The Flesh
- The Sea Behind Her Head
Completed
2025
2020
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Unreleased
Work with other filmmakers & artists
Completed
Unreleased
Completed
- Silent Friend
Ildikó Enyedi, 2025
production consultant
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The Occupant of the Room
Kier-La Janisse, 2025
colourist & visual artist
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Standing at the Ruins
Saeed Taji Farouky, TBA)
cinematographer & visual artist - To the Moon
Tadhg O’Sullivan, 2020
cinematographer, visual artist, musician - Wind
Emmit Fenn, 2019
directior, cinematographer, editor - The Sadness of the Trees 2015
- collaboration with Mikel Guillen
Unreleased
- ‘The Speed of Dark’
collaboration with Phil Solomon