I see the remnants of what my life looked like before. I see the relationships which lasted, those that didn’t, and the way my life was inextricably shaped by the trauma which sat inside and around me, dictating my situations. As a filmmaker, I have a variety of material which I can reflect upon, and in which I can see reflections of my internal world.

The theme of memory is what has defined my creative practice since I left art school in 2008. The way I saw memory was as a haunting, a ghost still present. Trying to describe this through film was incredibly difficult, even if it felt compelling.

Between 2018 and 2019, I was enrolled on an MA in documentary film directing. I spent the year shooting material for a short hybrid document