Have you always been involved in filmmaking?
I’ve always worked in the visual and performing arts in some incarnation. I was co-director of a typographic and reprographic business and sold it to go to art school in Sydney, where I majored in photography and holography. I made some super-8 films at art school, a 3 minute silent film ‘Fire at Heart’ and ‘Return’ a 30 minute film. I love research and was looking for a related post-graduate degree and found the MA for Documentary Research for Film & TV at LCC, which was at the time, a non-practice based degree. We had some camera workshops bolted on and I was raring to get amongst it and make films.

Tell us about your recent project ‘two-way love’
In the summer of our second year of the part-time MA, we were given the opportunity to get involved in a collaboration with Kyoto University of Art & Design to make two short films, one in London, one in Kyoto. In the end it came down to three of us, Jose Velazquez who was already experienced in camera work, Eeva Nyyssonen who did the producing and editing, and I was the Director. We focused on Japanese and Western cross-cultural couples, which disconcerted our counterparts somewhat, who found it was difficult to locate such couples in Kyoto. However, the common element to the two films is an exploration of the idea of love. We would have loved to have planned both films to be inter-cut into a single film, but that would have taken a lot of planning time, time that we didn’t have.

The interviewees are asked in ‘two-way love’ to complete the sentence "Love is..." How do you define love?
I commiserated with the people in the street we asked – it’s a big question to spring on someone. Love is strange to us. It’s a shape-shifter. Mercurial or constant, both extra-ordinary and ordinary, invisible yet it can be shown. I’d have to say that love is a positive transformative force that connects all matter.

Are documentaries your main preference or would you like to work more with fictional narrative films?
Documentaries are my main interest - people’s stories and their politics are endless. I’m also interested in film as art. I’m exploring video art too – non-narrative, no soundtrack, no editing - in an effort to change the way you experience the moving image. I’d like to interact with moving images in the way you interact with a painting.

What projects are you currently working on?
Photographically, I’ve made some of the elements for a light-box project, and will be embarking on the research for the companion film to ‘two-way love’ after the holidays. A social networking site for alumni of the MA in Documentary Research at LCC called The Documentary Party.

When can we see ‘two-way love’?
You can’t see it in full yet as we have entered into the London International Documentary Festival April/May 2010 as a European premiere. If it’s selected, it will be screened as part of the Festival and then we will hold our own screening too.