MOVING IMAGE WORK

 EIGGS (2026)

Creatures arrive on Eigg and engage in a mating ritual of time travelling parthenogenesis, changing the island forever.

Shot on residency on Eigg with The Bothy Project, summer 2024.

As with most of my recent work, EIGGS borrows aesthetics and themes from the world of figure skating, but transports them into a queer, alien, crip world. Figure skating is in itself a fannish practice, built as it is on repeated narratives and audience’s familiarity with music from ballet, opera, musicals and film, invoking their associated narrative and emotional beats. In my version of figure skating, the repetition comes in the form of parthenogenesis, becoming one shared body that creates ourselves over and over by laying eggs. The eggs are not a new generation of this new species, they are a form of time travel: the eggs are still us, and the eggs will hatch and become us again so we can once again form the big creature and lay ourselves over and over and over. I see this kind of relationship to time as a form of queercrip lag, a lag in the normative logic of representation which requires our lives and stories to fit into coherent narrative arcs. 

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WORMS (2025)

A short film created as part of SQIFF’s month-long film making course for trans and non-binary film makers in 2025, exploring strange or impossible kinds of embodiment as desirable, erotic possibilities. Co-created with Jules Brick, Cal Mowatt and Lish Adam. Screened at Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2025.