I’m currently conducting PhD research focused around animated documentary production in the UK. This page contains up to date information on publications, conference presentations and panels.

I’m currently working on a range of fun projects:

- combining motion capture, co-creation, archive and interview to develop an experimental methodology for animated non-fiction;

- developing a magic realist body horror film about perinatal depression;

- exploring straight-ahead animated sketchbooks using found materials.

I’m always open to suggestions for commissions and collaborations, feel free to get in touch.

I am the editor of the Exploring Animated Documentary website and Podcast. The site brings together information on animated documentary films, expanded projects, writing, news, and events. We publish written articles, interviews and reviews, share films, and produce an occasional podcast.

Work exhibited at the LIMITLESS exhibition, curated by Animated Women UK, 2023. Installed in the Upper Gallery at London College of Communication (LCC), and at EAST Gallery, Norwich.

My two pieces were The Secret, a 3D painting, and Found, a sculptural work designed to transform unpredictably as it ages.

A short animation made in collaboration with composer Hannah Peel and animator Christian Schlaeffer, commissioned by the BFI and BBC4 as part of Animation18. Using audio from interviews recorded around the UK, the film presents a dark tale of love found and lost, woven from fragments of real life broken hearts.

O Hunter Heart was broadcast on BBC4 in December 2018, and is available in the UK on BFI Player and Skwigly. BFI Animation Curator Jen Stewart listed it among ‘7 of the best stop-motion shorts on BFI Player’.

The film premiered at BFI Southbank and has also been selected for screening at: Encounters Festival; Underwire Festival; London Short Film Festival; MUMIA Underground Animation Festival, Deptford Animadocs; Factual Animation Film Fuss; Under the Radar Festival; REX Animation Festival; Lichtspielklub Short Film Festival; Big Muddy Film Festival, Weird Wednesdays Stuttgart; Athens Animfest; Rising of Lusitania AnimaDoc Film Festival, where it won the Student Jury’s Award for Best AnimaDoc; and Southampton Film Week, where it won both the Best Artists Film Award, and the Audience Award.

This sculptural video installation was created for Wellcome Collection's States of Mind: Tracing Edges of Consciousness exhibition, 2016. You can see a teaser for the installation on NOWNESS, and read a write up of the whole exhibition here.

Between 2009 and 2016, Rich Pickings organized energetic events ‘exploring the most interesting things in the universe’. Rich Pickings was led by Carla MacKinnon and supported by a Wellcome Trust People Award.

Each event combined film, art, talks, debate and discussion. Event partners included the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Events included speakers from the worlds of medicine, particle physics, anomalistic psychology, neuroscience, nanotechnology and psychiatry as well as writers, psychoanalysts, artists, designers and Academy Award, BAFTA and Emmy Award winning filmmakers and actors. 

A music/film collaboration with Industrial Pop artist Gazelle Twin. The work, commissioned by London Short Film Festival and supported by Arts Council England, features organic animation experiments exploring themes of puberty, the body, hallucination, anxiety and phobia using materials including coal, clay, milk, hair and meat. It was premiered with a live performance from Gazelle Twin at the Institute of Contemporary Art on 15th January 2015 and toured to the Watershed in Bristol, FACT in Liverpool, Latitude Festival and Cork Film Festival.  

HD | 13:48 | 2015

A short film I produced with support from Film London and the NLFP. Written and directed by Christopher Andrews and starring Ewan Mitchell. 

Winner: Best Short Film, Defy Film Festival 2016. Official Selection: Galway Film Fleadh 2016 | Cork Film Festival 2016 | London Short Film Festival 2016 | Manchester International Film Festival 2016 (special mention, Best UK Short) | Valetta Film Festival 2016 | East End Film Festival 2016 | Underwire Festival 2016 | Lviv International Short Film Festival 2016 | Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2016 | Short of the Week | Vimeo Staff Pick

A short experimental documentary about sleep paralysis.

Produced in 2013 as my graduation project MA ANIMATION at the Royal College of Art.

Supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

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Winner: Best Documentary; Cineglobe Film Festival, CERN, Switzerland | Official Selection: London International Animation Festival, UK | Encounters Short Film Festival, UK | London Short Film Festival, UK; Imagine Science Film Festival, USA | Flatpack Festival, UK | State Experience Science Film Festival, Germany | KLIK! Animation Festival, Netherlands | Cork Film Festival, Ireland | East End Film Festival, UK | Branchage Festival, Jersey | Shuffle Festival UK | Leeds International Film Festival, UK | Underwire Festival, UK | Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Netherlands | Chitrakatha Film Festival, India | InHouse Film Festival, UK | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, UK.

Also exhibited at: Strange Bedfellows exhibition, USA | Narcolepsy Annual Conference, UK | Nineworlds Geekiest, UK | Greenwich & Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, UK | GV Art & Science Symposium, UK.

Exhibited internationally throughout 2016 in 'MOVE IT', a screening initiative from Animate Projects.