Sweet Spot (2024)
Role: Composer
Opening with the unseen history of Filipino nurses and their global contributions, Sweet Spot follows Joyce, a young Filipina nurse in Melbourne navigating her career and budding romance with her colleague, Anna.
While Joyce enjoys a karaoke night, expressing her feelings for Anna through song, her mother, aged-care nurse Gemma, suffers a heart attack and faces discrimination in the emergency room. Upon receiving the news, Joyce rushes to the hospital, only for her and Gemma to become locked in a tense confrontation. During this heated argument, Gemma criticises her daughter’s choices, while Joyce challenges her mother’s emotional absence in her upbringing.
Finding herself torn between caring for her mother and pursuing her own life, Joyce comes to reflect on the deep sacrifices that Gemma has made as a nurse and parent.
Director: Pam Freire
Cinematography: Mischa Wang
Production Designer: Kayleen Montalan
Costumes: Hannah Ogawa
Producer: Raissa Barreiro
Production Designer: Angela Lopez
Composer: Oscar Lush
Sound Designer: Riley Achen-Donnelly
Double Take (2024)
An ongoing collaborative 16mm film project with visual artist Georgia Spain. Mattes and in-camera double exposures were used to explore how the collaging and layering of images can act as a non-linear storytelling device. The compositional process for the first film mirrored this collaged approach, stitched together from an archive of voice memos taken on my phone over a four year period. The second composition involved the use of hocketing-like arrangements, and experimentation with diegetic sound, to highlight the sharp duality of the stereo-field and mirror, in sound, the film’s split-screen composition.
Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through (2022)
Role: Video production & composition
Georgia Spain talks about her exhibition - 'Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through' October 2022 at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
'Georgia Spain is capturing one of painting’s great subjects: time. As still as you are right now, time is a thing that is happening to you. Alongside Botox and cryogenics, painting is one way to fight the battle. It’s like Spain has pressed pause on a film — which makes it so striking, such a testament to Spain as a painter, how the movement of her subjects still feel so alive.' – Tiarney Miekus, excerpt from the 'Time is the thing a body moves through' exhibition essay 2022