About Me
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I lead a double life as a scientist and storyteller in New York. This website currently describes my screenplays, all of which have scripts available on request. Please see below for info on each screenplay.
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Bio:
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Having escaped academia for the arts, I left behind the possible worlds of quantum computing at the physics lab in Cambridge for the provocative worlds of storytelling as a filmmaker in London. I used my earlier training in science, mathematics and philosophy to inspire my initial creative efforts in writing and directing, both in content and fictional pieces.
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After cutting my teeth on the starving artist circuit, I made the jump back into science to support and inspire my scripts. I now work as an AI researcher in New York. Seeing AI as a valuable tool to help solve some of the world's most pressing problems, my contributions in the field include working to develop forecasting tools for clean energy, and AI software aimed at empowering rather than replacing people. Today I work in the field of AI Safety - making sure AI systems are aligned with humanity's best interests.
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Current work:
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Currently my film work centers around consulting on matters relating to AI and filmmaking as well as writing narrative drama scripts.
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My writing is existential in nature and usually has an absurd, surreal or gothic element. I am interested in what makes a good life.
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Contact:
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In the age of generative AI I keep my scripts offline. Please get in touch for scripts, treatments, pitch decks, mood boards and the like.
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Credit:
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Ironically, the images used on this website were made in Midjourney, inspired by the 19th century French artist Gustave Doré.
Features
Beast Machine
After being replaced by robots in his factory job, and months of unemployment induced mental health problems, Jeff finally has hope. He has hope because after much self reflection it turns out he too is a robot. Time to reboot, look for a new job, and settle some old scores with his old boss.
Artist Kills Self
An artist fakes his own death to increase the price of his work after realizing that famous dead artists make more money at auction. The only problem is, he’s not famous yet. It's time for a retrospective. He's going to cause a scene, an art scene.
Existence Conditions
A woman on a romantic getaway to conceive her first child with her partner gets cold feet when considering the climate of existential threat the present day world sits precariously within, causing a rift between her and her more optimistic other half.
Long Form TV
Way of the Gun
(written with Kit Woods)
There’s a new cold war brewing over killer robots. Scientist Tanya Weston confronts the ethics of her job researching autonomous weapons when incriminating footage from a field test is leaked to the press. Can she learn to solve problems with the heart, not just the head, to stop her job from unraveling her family, her career and even international security?
Let's Connect
Three bumbling start-up founders inadvertently craft a malevolent superintelligent AI within their office-cum-apartment. Though they manage to prevent the AI from connecting to the internet, they rely on it to save their struggling enterprise, all while the AI slyly schemes to gain their trust and access to the web to unleash chaos. Will the puny humans be able to resist the cunning of their new charismatic and evil best friend?
Short Films
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Richard the Number
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A band of illiterate thugs running from something worse than themselves and looking for a hideout in a world lost to barbarity, stumble across a decaying theatre where they meet a deranged actor who can only communicate using lines from Shakespeare, and will only help them if they in turn help him realize his performance of one of the Bard's finest plays.
Sex Toys
A lonely inventor 3D prints a fantasy inspired automaton to love him, but the automaton has designs of its own.
Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
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An impoverished man depressed at his lack of achievement and apparent incompetence misses the bus. He turns up late to the assassination his terrorist cell plotted, the event that should make them go down in history. His co-conspirators have already left, the body oozes blood from bullet wounds and police sirens wail in the distance. He could run or ... or claim responsibility. He fires a shot into the corpse and waits.
Bad Breath
A lonely woman with no friends misattributes a throw away comment about bad breath to herself. She blames her isolation on her nonexistent halitosis and slowly wears herself out of reality through over brushing in a desperate bid to make people like her.
The MacGuffin
Scotland. Late 1700s. Two impoverished highland crofters fight to the death over a magic box.
Late for Work
A woman doesn't want to go to work, but the bills won't pay themselves. So she leaves her high rise building only to find the building won't let her leave.
Before the Bomb
Tuesday morning. London. Six very different people try to complete six very different projects before they must run for the bus. A school homework project, a broken relationship, a novel, a computer program, a therapy assignment, a bomb.
The Speed of Love
An obsessed physicist always in a hurry to progress can’t make time for her boyfriend. One day after a lab accident she finds herself experiencing time faster than her peers, and it’s only getting faster. She ages rapidly while everyone else ages at the normal rate. She can either stay in the lab and try to fix her experiment or run home and be with her partner. She’s running out of time to tell him she loves him.
Pillars of Wisdom
In the desolate wilderness of 5th century Syria, a Christian ascetic lives atop a tall column on a tiny cramped platform fully exposed to the elements. One day a new ascetic arrives to build a taller column and a tinier platform, sparking an escalating battle of spiritual one-upmanship, each striving to make his life more unbearable to impress God, only to discover that the path to true enlightenment might just be grounded in the humility that mutual friendship requires.
