Filmography
ROTFILM
PIGEON MAFIA TAKES OUT THE TRASH
TWENTY YEAR FISHING CURSE

Director's notes
Through ROTFILM, I wanted to explore how we as humans embellish the idea of death with manmade rituals, funerals and symbols, then contrast this with the very natural and organic process of decomposition. This short film is a celebration of the distinctly human desire to commemorate and the beauty in the way we do so, but it is also a response to the idea that as a society we are becoming more and more disconnected from nature - we use these symbols and rituals to distract from the reality of death and stay ignorant to the fact that we are not above nature but part of it.

Having complete freedom with this project, I allowed myself to be as experimental with it as I possibly could. I hand-drew every frame of animation with a mixture of either charcoal, pencil or paint and purposefully meshed these scenes in between real footage in the church and the graveyard, as well as constantly varying the pace and tone of the editing, aiming to create a visual map of death.

Being the first complete short film I have ever created, ROTFILM has really helped me understand the process of filmmaking on a small scale and how there are no boundaries
even without a budget. I'm very grateful to my friend Gideon who kindly acted in the church scenes for me, as without him this film couldn't have been made.