This is where you can see some of the projects I was lucky enough to direct.
I hope that in the future this section can have a very flashy reel with an incredibly catchy tune, but for now there’s a lot of text, pictures and videos for you to enjoy at your own pace!
I reeeeeally can’t wait for the cool reel that Bárbara of the future will make, I know she will blow our mind!
Patrick Kavanagh almost everything music videos
Myself and Cian Hughes directed three music videos for Claddagh Records based on three poems written by Patrick Kavanagh, performed by Liam Neeson, Jessie Buckley and the Irish President Michael D. Higgins.
After brainstorming under the sun, we decided to create three completely different visual styles for each poem to capture their distinct essences and performances.
We boarded the shorts together and divided our efforts to hit our 12 weeks time limit : I mostly worked on developing the visual styles/backgrounds for each one while Cian conquered all the animation.
Please enjoy the three shorts below with a few sneak peaks on studies/bgs I’ve made for them and our pitch idea for each short.
Throughout the Narrator’s encounters with older men, he sees his own father reflected in them.
The animation explores this mixture of longing and haunting by symbolizing the father with a pair of glasses shifting between non-descript characters; echoing Kavanagh’s self reflection.
MEMORY OF MY FATHER - LIAM NEESON
stony grey soil- michael d. higgins
Mirroring the poem’s exploration of the narrator’s relationship with his environment, the animation focuses on fleshing out the Landscape, evoking it’s passive, overbearing, inescapable presence.
Epic- Jessie Buckley
Visual wonderings of conflict throughout the ages, in a futuristic tapestry, mixing different timelines to showcase how interchangeable the feelings and repercussions of human discord are.
Fado bicha - 10|10 music video
Directed by myself and animated by Márcia Caldeira, João Rodrigues, Maria Amélia Gonçalves and Elena Klappenbach - we called ourselves “Evas Daninhas” for the duration of this project.
I was approached by Fado Bicha to create a music video to their interventive song that commemorated the 10th year of the legalization of gay marriage in Portugal. They pieced together various homophobic and transphobic remarks made throughout the years by famous Portuguese personalities and politicians.
As a personal fan of their work and with the help of my animator friends - I tried to mimic the construction of their song by creating broken portraits of these famous people using images in the public domain and keeping the animation raw as their words are.
This was a self produced project with a lot of heart and no budget.
A place in nowhere
Directed by myself and João Rodrigues this is a short film I’ve made in college and finished with the support of the animation studio Praça Filmes, with a grant by ICA.
It’s a documentary based on an interview I did with my mother, where she recounted a bit of her experience as an Angolan Civil War refugee in Portugal and how war shaped her life.
Please check the trailer here and a few of my visual development/production work on it.
