Video Ruminations
Short studies in time, movement, and the everyday
About this Video series
Ruminations is an ongoing series of small video observations — moments where the still photographer’s instinct meets the moving image. Each piece is a brief encounter with time: a gesture, a drift, a fragment of suburban theatre, or a mechanical rhythm that reveals more the longer you sit with it.
Where my still work often holds space through geometry and light, these videos hold space through duration. They are modest in scale but attempt to be expansive in attention: traffic sliding through Naples at double‑speed, an escalator slowed until it becomes choreography, a suburban yard that performs its own opera when the sound is turned off.
These are not films in the cinematic sense. They are meditations, small, self‑contained studies in looking and listening, sitting alongside my photographic archive as a parallel record of attention.
Current listing
As I add new videos they will be listed here.
Naples Traffic 2011
Two minutes of sped‑up traffic, filmed from the hotel room in Naples we stayed one night in. A compressed city rhythm: horns, scooters, and the restless choreography of a street that never quite settles.
"..a watched pot never boils" 2011
An experimental study in time and anticipation. Waiting on a public transit station platform becomes a meditation on waiting, movement, and the camera’s ability to stretch a moment until it becomes something else.
Help Me! [Inside a gallery] 2011
A quiet reflection on suburban identity, filmed in the charged yet anonymous space adjacent to Sunshine's rail corridor.
Escalating! 2014
A slow‑motion ride on an escalator. The mechanical becomes a ballet; until the everyday slips into ritual.
Perpetual motion 2016
A mistral employee once told me, “...you’re only as good as your fans.” A small, looping meditation on labour, repetition, and the machines that keep spaces moving. Inspired by a lyric from a TISM song.
Silver Gelatin Prints 2017
The tactile slowness of analogue printing becomes a moving image study in craft and process.
Three minute opera. [no audio] 2019
Three minutes of suburban drama with the sound intentionally removed. A silent opera of gestures, glances, and small tensions.
One minute fifteen seconds in Laverton in November, 2018
A short observational fragment from Laverton. A place held still long enough for its textures to surface.
One minute seven seconds in Federation Square 2021
A compressed moment in one of Melbourne’s most public spaces. A study in flow, pause, and the city’s shifting centre of gravity.
Two Minutes in West Melbourne 2021
A small meditation on time, space, and place, attentive to the quiet atmospheres that define my broader practice.
Ruminations sits alongside my 'still photographic work' as a parallel archive of attention. Where recurring rituals fix a frame, these videos appear when something moves, hums, hesitates, or simply asks to be noticed.
They are small, but they accumulate mapping a life experienced in fragments: suburban, urban, domestic, mechanical. Each piece tries to remind us that meaning often hides in the minor key, waiting for the camera to stay just a little longer.