Out of the Peat
Co-director • BFI Network short film • 2025

An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics.

The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection.

Out of the Peat will premiere in competition at the London Short Film Festival in January 2025. 

Directors: Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason 

Writer: Tabitha Carless-Frost

Producer: Tate Turnbull     

Cast: Roo Gehring 

DOP: Morgan K. Spencer 

Composer: Richard Skelton 

Editor: Anthony Ing 

Sound Design: Harry Charlton

Prop Design: Elizabeth Alster

Costume Design: Erica Prus 

Titles & Poster: Cameron Harris

Acetate Pictures

Super 16 B&W 

Shot on location at Chat Moss, Lancashire

Untitled Derek Jarman Documentary
Editor • In pre-production

Listening to Variety
Cinema Rediscovered commission • October 2023

"My initial interest in Bette Gordon’s Variety (1983) was the involvement of the experimental writer Kathy Acker. Watching the film at Cinema Rediscovered, I was fascinated by the ways in which Gordon, rather than merely drawing on her talents as a writer, imports Acker’s confrontational performance style into Variety’s narrative itself, through the three erotic monologues that punctuate the film. My video essay examines the role spoken language plays in Variety’s subversion of traditionally male spaces, looking to the origins of these monologues in Acker’s writing broadly and Gordon’s 1981 short Anybody’s Woman specifically."

Inland Empire: Horror and the Poor Image
Vimeo • June 2023

An essay on the terrors lurking in analogue and digital noise, focusing on the work of David Lynch. 

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