Award-winning experimental filmmaker from Ireland.Active for 16 years, creating 70 shorts and 6 feature films. This cinema intricately forges a new relationship between contemporary and legacy media formats, while combining materialist film methodologies. This work melds narrative storytelling with experimental form and has been described as part of an important new direction in Irish cinema. These films have screened at film festivals and cultural institutions internationally. In 2022, first narrative feature film, Hole in the Head, received an Irish theatrical release and earned critical acclaim.Tech:Until recently with Irish Film Institute as Digital Media Technician for cinema and stream in a national and global exhibition context. Defining and ensuring the appropriate technical specification for cinemas with regard to incoming and outgoing theatrical media. Providing audio-visual media as well as technical expertise and advice to partner festivals and cultural exhibitors around the world, including Irish embassies and consulates, through the IFI International Programme which is supported and funded by Irish government organisation Culture Ireland.Highly experienced in format migration and digitisation with the following formats:- 1/4" Reel to Reel audio- DAT audio- Compact Disc- U-Matic (hi-band and low-band)- Betacam SP- Digital Betacam- miniDV- video-8, Hi-8, digital-8- VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C- Pixelvision- HDCAM, HDCAM-SR- Super-8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm film (sepmag and commag audio)- printed photographic media including large format, slide and glass slide, and tintype wet-plate collodionHighly adept at using industry-standard hardware and software, including:- Adobe Suite- Ffmpeg- DaVinci Resolve- Easy DCP suite & IMF Studio- Pro Tools- EZ-Titles- Final Cut Pro X- Blackmagic MediaExpress- LTO storage systems- Expert knowledge of digitisation and format migration workflows for legacy tape and film objects.- Knowledge of open source tools and AV preservation workflows- Knowledge and experience working within Digitial Cinema Initiative compliance.- Encryption and decryption of theatrical assets - Fully trained digital cinema projectionistWindows, Linux, Mac.Film Programming:Working closely with IFI Irish Film Archive in programming and exhibiting Irish cultural heritage nationally and internationally. Award-winning filmmaker, freelance cinematographer, editor and DIT with over 14 years of industry experience in film, TV production, and post-production.