DOCUMENTARIES
Current Project : Greening the Circus
As our cities grow ever hotter and more crowded, this film explores the transformation of an uninviting junction in east London—and the challenges that come with it—as a microcosm of the wider issues facing urban infrastructure. How can we reshape urban spaces in response to climate change, while creating stronger communities and making our cities more liveable for the decades to come?
Pembury Circus is one of Hackney’s most notorious road junctions: a five-arm intersection north of the City of London, where traffic, pedestrians and cyclists converge in a space that has long been associated with pollution and road danger. It has recorded some of the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in Hackney and since 2017 there have been 229 road traffic collisions in the vicinity, including 25 serious incidents and two fatalities.
The area is also a neighbourhood and a social space, surrounded by blocks of flats, houses, shops, a pub, fast-food outlets and the everyday life of local residents. Now, after years of planning, major change is finally underway. As part of an £18 million green corridor linking Pembury Circus with Hackney Central, the area is being transformed.
The film will explore the priorities behind the Council’s design; how the new junction aims to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers; what can realistically be done to reduce car use and through-traffic; how far new planting can help address pollution and extreme heat; and whether the transformation can turn Pembury Circus and Amhurst Road from a place people pass through into a place that serves the community.
Following a summer of unprecedented heat, the project raises urgent questions about how our urban spaces should respond to climate change, air pollution, active travel and road use. Can a redesigned junction make the area safer while encouraging walking and cycling?
Can planting meaningfully improve the environment? And can a place dominated by traffic become a better social space for the people who live there?
This 20 minute documentary follows the transformation of Pembury Circus and Amhurst road from construction site to redesigned public space, hearing from the people directly involved and those who use the area every day. Interviews with designers, installers and workmen, residents, businesses, Hackney Cycling Campaign, pedestrians and motorists will explore the ambitions behind the project — and whether the finished scheme delivers on them.
At its heart, the film asks: what makes a successful urban space? Who gets to shape it, whose needs come first, and can a road junction become somewhere people actually want to spend time.
Past Projects
In 2024 I made a short documentary about how people connect with nature in Russel Square, London OASIS SQUARE, started during my masters at nearby SOAS.
In Norway I have filmed and produced a series of mini documentaries projects about the lives of refugees in northern Norway, many of whom crossed over from Russia by bicycle in 2015.
In 2017 I completed the documentary “Where The Bees Swarm” which explores the history of an ancient farm on the Surrey/Sussex border over the last century.
More recently I have been working on a documentary shot over several years about the Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen with Evoke Film AS in Tromsø.
In 2013 I co-produced the environmental documentary Animate Earth with Angel TV. This was based on the book by eminent biologist Dr. Stephan Harding, colleague of the late James Lovelock.
DOCUMENTARIES
Current Project : Greening the Circus
As our cities grow ever hotter and more crowded, this film explores the transformation of an uninviting junction in east London—and the challenges that come with it—as a microcosm of the wider issues facing urban infrastructure. How can we reshape urban spaces in response to climate change, while creating stronger communities and making our cities more liveable for the decades to come?
Pembury Circus is one of Hackney’s most notorious road junctions: a five-arm intersection north of the City of London, where traffic, pedestrians and cyclists converge in a space that has long been associated with pollution and road danger. It has recorded some of the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in Hackney and since 2017 there have been 229 road traffic collisions in the vicinity, including 25 serious incidents and two fatalities.
The area is also a neighbourhood and a social space, surrounded by blocks of flats, houses, shops, a pub, fast-food outlets and the everyday life of local residents. Now, after years of planning, major change is finally underway. As part of an £18 million green corridor linking Pembury Circus with Hackney Central, the area is being transformed.
The film will explore the priorities behind the Council’s design; how the new junction aims to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers; what can realistically be done to reduce car use and through-traffic; how far new planting can help address pollution and extreme heat; and whether the transformation can turn Pembury Circus and Amhurst Road from a place people pass through into a place that serves the community.
Following a summer of unprecedented heat, the project raises urgent questions about how our urban spaces should respond to climate change, air pollution, active travel and road use. Can a redesigned junction make the area safer while encouraging walking and cycling?
Can planting meaningfully improve the environment? And can a place dominated by traffic become a better social space for the people who live there?
This 20 minute documentary follows the transformation of Pembury Circus and Amhurst road from construction site to redesigned public space, hearing from the people directly involved and those who use the area every day. Interviews with designers, installers and workmen, residents, businesses, Hackney Cycling Campaign, pedestrians and motorists will explore the ambitions behind the project — and whether the finished scheme delivers on them.
At its heart, the film asks: what makes a successful urban space? Who gets to shape it, whose needs come first, and can a road junction become somewhere people actually want to spend time.
Past Projects
In 2024 I made a short documentary about how people connect with nature in Russel Square, London OASIS SQUARE, started during my masters at nearby SOAS.
In Norway I have filmed and produced a series of mini documentaries projects about the lives of refugees in northern Norway, many of whom crossed over from Russia by bicycle in 2015.
In 2017 I completed the documentary “Where The Bees Swarm” which explores the history of an ancient farm on the Surrey/Sussex border over the last century.
More recently I have been working on a documentary shot over several years about the Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen with Evoke Film AS in Tromsø.
In 2013 I co-produced the environmental documentary Animate Earth with Angel TV. This was based on the book by eminent biologist Dr. Stephan Harding, colleague of the late James Lovelock.
DOCUMENTARIES
Current Project : Greening the Circus
As our cities grow ever hotter and more crowded, this film explores the transformation of an uninviting junction in east London—and the challenges that come with it—as a microcosm of the wider issues facing urban infrastructure. How can we reshape urban spaces in response to climate change, while creating stronger communities and making our cities more liveable for the decades to come?
Pembury Circus is one of Hackney’s most notorious road junctions: a five-arm intersection north of the City of London, where traffic, pedestrians and cyclists converge in a space that has long been associated with pollution and road danger. It has recorded some of the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in Hackney and since 2017 there have been 229 road traffic collisions in the vicinity, including 25 serious incidents and two fatalities.
The area is also a neighbourhood and a social space, surrounded by blocks of flats, houses, shops, a pub, fast-food outlets and the everyday life of local residents. Now, after years of planning, major change is finally underway. As part of an £18 million green corridor linking Pembury Circus with Hackney Central, the area is being transformed.
The film will explore the priorities behind the Council’s design; how the new junction aims to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers; what can realistically be done to reduce car use and through-traffic; how far new planting can help address pollution and extreme heat; and whether the transformation can turn Pembury Circus and Amhurst Road from a place people pass through into a place that serves the community.
Following a summer of unprecedented heat, the project raises urgent questions about how our urban spaces should respond to climate change, air pollution, active travel and road use. Can a redesigned junction make the area safer while encouraging walking and cycling?
Can planting meaningfully improve the environment? And can a place dominated by traffic become a better social space for the people who live there?
This 20 minute documentary follows the transformation of Pembury Circus and Amhurst road from construction site to redesigned public space, hearing from the people directly involved and those who use the area every day. Interviews with designers, installers and workmen, residents, businesses, Hackney Cycling Campaign, pedestrians and motorists will explore the ambitions behind the project — and whether the finished scheme delivers on them.
At its heart, the film asks: what makes a successful urban space? Who gets to shape it, whose needs come first, and can a road junction become somewhere people actually want to spend time.
Past Projects
In 2024 I made a short documentary about how people connect with nature in Russel Square, London OASIS SQUARE, started during my masters at nearby SOAS.
In Norway I have filmed and produced a series of mini documentaries projects about the lives of refugees in northern Norway, many of whom crossed over from Russia by bicycle in 2015.
In 2017 I completed the documentary “Where The Bees Swarm” which explores the history of an ancient farm on the Surrey/Sussex border over the last century.
More recently I have been working on a documentary shot over several years about the Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen with Evoke Film AS in Tromsø.
In 2013 I co-produced the environmental documentary Animate Earth with Angel TV. This was based on the book by eminent biologist Dr. Stephan Harding, colleague of the late James Lovelock.
DOCUMENTARIES
Current Project : Greening the Circus
As our cities grow ever hotter and more crowded, this film explores the transformation of an uninviting junction in east London—and the challenges that come with it—as a microcosm of the wider issues facing urban infrastructure. How can we reshape urban spaces in response to climate change, while creating stronger communities and making our cities more liveable for the decades to come?
Pembury Circus is one of Hackney’s most notorious road junctions: a five-arm intersection north of the City of London, where traffic, pedestrians and cyclists converge in a space that has long been associated with pollution and road danger. It has recorded some of the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in Hackney and since 2017 there have been 229 road traffic collisions in the vicinity, including 25 serious incidents and two fatalities.
The area is also a neighbourhood and a social space, surrounded by blocks of flats, houses, shops, a pub, fast-food outlets and the everyday life of local residents. Now, after years of planning, major change is finally underway. As part of an £18 million green corridor linking Pembury Circus with Hackney Central, the area is being transformed.
The film will explore the priorities behind the Council’s design; how the new junction aims to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers; what can realistically be done to reduce car use and through-traffic; how far new planting can help address pollution and extreme heat; and whether the transformation can turn Pembury Circus and Amhurst Road from a place people pass through into a place that serves the community.
Following a summer of unprecedented heat, the project raises urgent questions about how our urban spaces should respond to climate change, air pollution, active travel and road use. Can a redesigned junction make the area safer while encouraging walking and cycling?
Can planting meaningfully improve the environment? And can a place dominated by traffic become a better social space for the people who live there?
This 20 minute documentary follows the transformation of Pembury Circus and Amhurst road from construction site to redesigned public space, hearing from the people directly involved and those who use the area every day. Interviews with designers, installers and workmen, residents, businesses, Hackney Cycling Campaign, pedestrians and motorists will explore the ambitions behind the project — and whether the finished scheme delivers on them.
At its heart, the film asks: what makes a successful urban space? Who gets to shape it, whose needs come first, and can a road junction become somewhere people actually want to spend time.
Past Projects
In 2024 I made a short documentary about how people connect with nature in Russel Square, London OASIS SQUARE, started during my masters at nearby SOAS.
In Norway I have filmed and produced a series of mini documentaries projects about the lives of refugees in northern Norway, many of whom crossed over from Russia by bicycle in 2015.
In 2017 I completed the documentary “Where The Bees Swarm” which explores the history of an ancient farm on the Surrey/Sussex border over the last century.
More recently I have been working on a documentary shot over several years about the Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen with Evoke Film AS in Tromsø.
In 2013 I co-produced the environmental documentary Animate Earth with Angel TV. This was based on the book by eminent biologist Dr. Stephan Harding, colleague of the late James Lovelock.