My father was a television entertainer in Germany, so I learned the craft early. I was doing tape-to-tape edits at twelve; my mum kept the rest of my childhood normal. At twenty-three I came to Sydney to study filmmaking, fell for the coast and for Kylie, and stayed. Twenty years on I run a studio, make my own work, and build the odd tool when something I need doesn't exist yet.
A few years ago I found out I have aphantasia: my mind doesn't form mental images. It didn't change how I work. It just named it. I can't pre-visualise a shot, so I show up, pay attention, and let the world hand me something I couldn't have planned.
The work lives in a few other places too.
