
Light
means 'Deep' and Breeze means 'Pavan'. I am a story-teller, a writer,
an artist and a cinematographer, I like working with cedlluloid and use
both Super 8 and 16mm film. I have a fully serviced Eclair ACL 2 Super
16mm camera kit and a range of professional lenses as well as several
specialist 16mm cameras. I work closely with processing and scanning facilities
ensuring a high quality and cost effective workflow when working with
film. People say that I am an 'intuitive mechanical engineer' as I am
always figuring out how things work and how to improve them, dismantling
things [like cameras] and then putting them back together making sure
that they work much better than before. I like to build soultions to the
various challenges using film; I made a small 100ft capacity magazine
for my Eclair camera making it an even smaller and compact professional
sync camera, I reflexed my a-acam Super 16 camera, I developed an easy
method of spooling 16mm onto the small 100ft daylight spools in the daylight
by adapting a 400ft camera magazine and have built a frame by frame scanner
which scan multiple film formats including Super 8, 16mm and 35mm film
to high resoultion video.
I
have always been attracted to pictures, especially how colours, light
and textures work, for me most important thing is to create beautiful
images that speak and tell stories. Film simply has that little bit of
magic built-in that I have never been able to find with digital media.
I aim to work with celluloid as long as possible. I work as a Freelance
Lecturer, Tutor and Cinematographer and make personal experimental films
that tell stories in an unconventional manner dismantling accepted narrative
structures. I also run and manage Super 8 and 16mm workshops across the
UK. I started SPS in 2009, at the time it was the only Super 8 film processing
and digital scanning lab in the UK.
I
studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in London for my first degree and then
studied in the Midlands and finally qualified as a community and youth
worker. I worked as a youth worker and lecturer teaching English and media
studies for several years. I first started writing short stories in the
late 1990's as a hobby. I have since written and have had several short
stories, scripts and plays published. I am currently wiriting a novel.
I started my own production company and made training films and corporate
films before working at the BBC where I worked as a story-line producer
for a popular daily soap.
After
leaving the BBC I started working freelance as a Lecturer, Tutor, Cinematographer
and filmmaker working with Super 8 and Super 16mm film technology making
personal experimental films.

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