Stop-Motion Interactive Installation, 2011
Created in collaboration with Van Sowerwine with coding and interactive electronics by Matt Gingold, carpentry by Don Russell, sound design by Finn Robertson and additional coding by Oliver Marriott. This work is being shown at Screen Space as part of the 2011 Melbourne Festival.
Puppet video, 3'00", 2011
Created in collaboration with Cat Rabbit for a Jim Henson tribute exhibition called The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, USA.
Owl Know How
Stop-Motion Animation, 2'24", 2011
Created in collaboration with Cat Rabbit for her exhibition, Secret Animal Realms at No-Vacancy Project Space, Federation Square, Melbourne. A limited edition of the animation was sold at the exhibition. To get an idea of what it looked like, check out the beginning of my showreel!
Stop-Motion Interactive Installation, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award.
Created in collaboration with Van Sowerwine. Check out the You Were In My Dream site to see where it will be exhibited next. Also you can play with a small part of it online.
You Were In My Dream is an Experimenta Commission.
Digital Animation, 5'30", 2009,
Sound by Finn Robertson.
Commissioned by Next Wave Time Lapse project for the outdoor screen at Federation Square, 2009.
Qua vs Glactic Jungle
In June, 2009 I collaborated with Gus Kemp to make a visual installation / performace at ACMI to accompany a live set from QUA. Some of the visuals were animations on screens but we also had 5 overhead projectors with different manually operated moving images, sculptures with mirrors that threw light all over the room and a giant dancing shadow puppet hooked up to the drummer.
Digital Animation, 3'54", 2008
Music by James Cecil. Made for Next Wave Festival nightclub project. The initial sequence was inspired by a dream I had while babysitting a cat.
Stop-Motion Animation, 10" loop, 2007
Animation for a flipbook curated by Tape Projects.
Stop-Motion Animation, 7'00", 2004
Short Film written and directed by Van Sowerwine, animated by Isobel Knowles, Produced by Flim Camp.
Special Mention at 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Golden Hugo for best animation at 2005 Chicago Film Festival, Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival, 2006
Digital Animation, 4'37" loop, 2005
Animated installation, West Space Gallery. Sound by Nick Munnings. The birds were projected on the ceiling and there was a park bench underneath for viewers. A few autumn leaves scattered around the floor completed the sensation of being in the park on an autumn afternoon watching birds do weird stuff in the sky.
Stop-Motion Interactive Installation, 5'22", 2003
Interactive animation in collaboration with Van Sowerwine and industrial design by Liam Fennesssey. An Experimenta New Visions Commission created for House of Tomorrow.
Digital Animation, 4'30", 2002
Music by Jeremy Dower. Created for an event called Codec Cinema where visual artists and musicians/ sound artists were asked to collaborate and present performances.
Digital Animation, 2'42", 2002
Music by ASKII. Created for Codec Cinema. Watch out for when he does the worm!
Digital Animation, 2'02", 2001
Collaboration with Madeleine Griffith. We went out and filmed strangers eating in public places then studied the mechanics of eating through rotoscoping. One second of each person's day became weeks of our lives.
Digital Animation, 2'31", 2001
A short film where I wrote some film soundtrack inspired music then pretended it was from a film and just animated the section of the film where the music might occur. No beginning, no end, just one random scene from an imaginary film.
At Play Time / On The Way Home
Stop-Motion Animation, 7'01" / 6'47", 2001
These two animations were created in collaboration with musician, Jeremy Dower for a screening of Codec Cinema.
Mixed Form Animation, 9'09", 1998
My first animated film - an alphabet of experimentation.