If you want to radically engage your audience, work with Open Cell Media. The films they produce are both scientifically and emotionally compelling. Working with Rhys is a dream: he lays out clear expectations and meets or exceeds them every time. Julie Wolf, Communications Director at IndieBio We have become a generation of bright minds […]
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Fighting Covid With Creativity
To overcome the lockdown, I have partnered with a local pianist to create daily Jams. Each day he sends me a song and I go through my archive of footage captured around Cambridge to make a short little digital postcard for social media. We call them jams as there is not to be any forethought […]
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WeWork+Fashion Futures+Sustainable Designers
To support the next round of sustainable designers, WeWork hosted the Fashion Futures event at the Devonshire Square facility. I was asked to document the runway event which helped the designers reach wider audiences.
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An Artist in The Freezer
The Freezer in Riff, Iceland is a mecca for creatives looking to push their skills and escape the confusion of cosmopolitan art. To highlight what happens within the three month residency, I created this feature length documentary which goes through the creative process of artists in remote villages. If you would like to see the […]
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An Interactive History
The Scanlines Exhibition included a series of documentaries, projected into the art galleries to promote Australian artists.
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Biotechs Brightest Minds
The inaugural Synbitech event held at the Queen Elizabeth Centre in Westminster was the UK’s biggest gathering of academics, industrial practitioners, policy makers, thought leaders and bio-designers. Paul Freemont asked if I could create the opening film which would introduce the room to the event ahead and create a sense of excitement in the room. […]
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Food: Bigger than the Plate
Heston Bumenthal from the Fat Duck, Alex James from Blur, Ruby Tandor from The Great British Bake-off, Suggs from Madness and Professor Green all donated their bacteria to create their own special brand of cheese. But not just any cheese. Biodesigner’s Helene Steiner and Tom Meany teamed up with Youtube star The Food Busker and […]
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London Design Festival 19
Thanks to the big leaps forward in biological design over the last few years, the London Design Festival in 2019 had a new home in Open Cell. We were tasked with documenting all the different activities that took place at the event plus a few others around London at the Victoria and Albert museum. The […]
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Opening Biology Cells in Shipping Containers
Over 70 shipping containers in Shepherd’s Bush London, with offices, workshops and biology labs for early stage startups and designers. We don’t believe in long winded business plans. They want residents to build things people want. Open Cell had recently acquired a new space near White City when they came to us looking to support their […]
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The King’s Affair
In 2017, 2018 and 2019, we created the projection show for the King’s Affair inside the King’s Chapel, Cambridge, UK. Our objective was to bring the audience together and feed their imagination with ideas of exploration. The design also had to tie in with the event theme ‘Music of the Spheres’. So we created a […]
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