Shown on 3 mini i.pads are my first films made on the Bridget Riley Fellowship at the British School at Rome 2018.
I was re-visiting Neorealist films, films I’d watched as a child and mis-remembered ever since.

Particular scenes began to haunt me, sequences with specific relevance to time and place. I began drawing singular actions and repeating them in order to comprehend them. Repeated actions, drawing them now physically, drawing myself into the film.
Umberto d. headlined the series, the scene where the protagonist is reduced to begging in front of the Pantheon. A deceptively simple action duplicated and filmed over 3 months as the skies changed and the tourists crept in.

Using 16mm cut with i.phone rushes I made visible the language of film - both the learning and the losing of it - revelling in its omissions, the discontinuity, the patches and the bad repair.