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World-building

A miniature crooked tower balanced on a small moon, against a black background — Wizard of the Moon. Short film.

2023–2025

Animation, film and set design

VFX became a way to explore what architecture could do through film. I became interested in the construction of worlds: miniature sets, painted environments and animated spaces, and the ways these techniques can be used to imagine places that do not yet exist.

For Wizard of the Moon, I designed and built the miniature set for the class film. The other works are independent explorations of architecture through animation and image-making, including Underneath Berlin, a painted section through the city, Labyrinth, a short animation, and a render of polluted water bringing the buildings of Spelhaugen to life.

I have continued working with animation since, including Wait for Me at Heaven’s Gate, a music video.

Glowing pink and grey ribbed planes folding away in perspective, a pale band winding through them — Wait for Me at Heaven’s Gate, music video.

Photographs

A small model house with a crescent moon on its wall, lit by a film lamp through smoke — The miniature set, lit for the shoot.

Dim wooden interior with a large crescent moon on the wall, a desk and a bookcase — Still from Wizard of the Moon.

Rendered brick building standing on long spider-like legs above a green-lit hillside — Creatures of forgotten infrastructure: the Spelhaugen buildings, come alive.

Matte painting of a cobbled Berlin courtyard under a pink sky, a building cut open in section on the left — Underneath Berlin. Matte painting.

Top-down view into a grey concrete labyrinth with a deep square shaft at its centre and one small figure — Still from Labyrinth.