Ian is currently a PhD researcher in Film at Lancaster University while producing a series of short films as part of his PhD practice.
Ian is keen to make films using vintage cameras and is currently shooting a number of experimental films in Super 8 film format using a 60-year-old vintage Russian camera that works using clockwork and an early 70’s Canon Super 8 camera.
Previously:
Ian graduated from Bournemouth University with a Masters’s Degree in Cinematography for Digital Film and Television in 2014 and is a founding member of the award-winning Independent Film Production company, ‘Smudgerhunt Film’, which was formed by former students of Bournemouth University.
Ian graduated from the Arts University Bournemouth as a Digital Media Designer and this was where he developed his early camera and editing skills and what would go on to become his passion as a filmmaker.
Ian has previous work experience working in the professional Television and Theatre Industry as a Lighting Engineer gaining experience as an International Lighting Engineer, responsible for Lighting installations in TV Studios and Theatres in Europe and Asia.
Memories Of Shiqi is a short experimental film exploring memory in film. The film combines analogue film with digital film sources. Uniquely the analogue film is typically the most recent captured and the archival film captured over the decades using the available digital devices of the time. This effect confuses but also draws the audience in. The film explores textures in analogue and digital film, either side by side using a mask to divide the screen or in combinations using overlays and blending methods. The footage from the analogue camera appears blurred and colours faded like watercolour paintings, this is due in part to the film’s reaction to exposure, light variances, and colour, and finally the variables in the processing of the film.
The soundtrack is a haunting melodious soundscape accenting the changes in textures in the visuals and the continuous movement and switching of the locations and movements of the subject and of the camera.
