Behind the looks: GRAND JETEÉ (2022) / I WANT TO RETURN RETURN RETURN (2020) / JIBRIL (2018)
Freelance colourist
As a DI colourist and workflow consultant I develop creative partnerships with cinematographers, show looks and transforms for specific projects and colour-managed workflows.
Many of my projects tell stories from womens’ perspectives – often psychological dramas with themes of trauma, exploitation or abuse. Directors I have worked with include: Sophia Bösch, Isabelle Stever, Hannah Dörr, Henrika Kull, Bernadette Kolonko, Salka Tiziana, Zora Rux, Elsa Rosengren and Sara Summa.
In 2021 I was shortlisted for FilmLight Colour Awards in the Theatrical Feature category for my work on THE MASSACRE OF ANRÖCHTE.
Look Development Technologist at Netflix
Between 2022 and 2024 I worked full-time for Netflix as a Colour & Look Development Technologist. The only person within the company to hold that role.
While at Netflix I was permitted to grade one or two non-Netflix features per year (to stay current) – some of which appear in the list below.
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Milk Teeth (2024)
A young woman tries to protect a runaway girl amongst a hostile forest community. (97mins, scripted)
Look concept: hot, humid renderings that heighten the characters’ worn down and desperate states.
Cinematography
Aleksandra Medianikova
Direction
Sophia Bösch
Production design
Mona Cathleen Otterbach
Make-up
Stefanie Gredig
Producing
Milena Klemke
Post supervising
Tolke Palm
Editing
Andrea Muñoz
Grand Jeté (2022)
A dance instructor and her son drift into an incestuous relationship. (105mins, scripted)
Look concept: pushed, strained images – mimicking the perception and body of the main character.
Cinematography
Constantin Campean
Direction
Isabelle Stever
Production Design
TBC
Make-Up
TBC
Producing
Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Editing
Paul Gröbel
Bliss (2021)
Two sex workers take different experiences from the same love affair. (91mins, scriped)
Look concept: cold, artificial environments rendered as timeless, romantic canvases for intimacy.
Cinematography
Carolina Steinbrecher
Direction
Henrika Kull
Production design
Theresa Bischof
Katherine Halbach
Theresa Reiwer
Producing
Martin Heisler
Post Supervision
Niklaas Warda
Courage (2021)
Members of a politically active theatre group in Minsk navigate the mass protests of 2020. (90mins, unscripted)
Look concept: a hot summer of protests rendered as an icy world punctuated by flashes of warmth.
Cinematography
Tanya Haurylchyk
Jesse Mazuch
Direction
Aliaksei Paluyan
Editing
Behrooz Karamizade
Producing
Jörn Möllenkamp
Borga (2021)
A Ghanian man is forced to fake achieving financial wealth in Germany. (104mins, scripted)
Look concept: Ghana’s Accra vs Germany’s Mannheim – too very different views of ‘hostile’.
Cinematography
Tobias von dem Borne
Direction
York-Fabian Raabe
Production design
Tanja Arlt
Anthony Tomety
Costumes
Afriyah Frimpong
Henrike Luz
Post supervising
Edd Maggs
Second Thoughts (2021)
A surprise marriage proposal causes a woman to face her doubts as physical projections. (84mins, scripted)
Look concept: Marie’s world as a pastel, graphic novel.
Cinematography
Jesse Mazuch
Direction
Zora Rux
Post supervising
Juan Galva
Editing
Henning Stöve
Tábor (2020)
Life amongst a transient community living on the border between Hungary and Ukraine. (45mins, unscripted)
Look concept: images that honour the unselfconscious authenticity conveyed by the participants.
Cinematography
Jesse Mazuch
Direction & Editing
Stanislav Danylyshyn
Producing
Olga Goister
I Want to Return Return Return (2020)
A woman drifts among people whose lives are dominated by memories of their pasts. (30mins, scripted/unscripted)
Look concept: a dream-like world outside of time, surface warmth disguising a cold loneliness.
Cinematography
Giulia Schelhas
Direction
Elsa Rosengren
Costumes
Tatiana Bastos
Editing
Esteban Alfaro
Elsa Rosengren
Trading Happiness (2020)
A mother faces dire choices after her daughter flees from an arranged marriage. (20mins, scripted)
Look concept: Vietnam as place where spirituality remains a valued counterpoint to moral degradation.
Cinematography
Meret Madörin
Direction
Duc Ngo Ngoc
Producing
Pia To
Editing
Laura Espinel
Katja Nguyen Thanh
Stories from the Chestnut Woods (2019)
An old carpenter and a young chestnut seller form an unlikely friendship. (81mins, scripted)
Look concept: a melancholic journey back to lives that have been long lost to the passage of history.
Cinematography
Ferran Paredes Rubio
Direction
Gregor Bozic
Production design
Giovanna Cirianni
Costumes
Mateja Fajt
Katharina Jockwer
Post supervising
Lu Larrea
Lake of Happiness (2019)
Having been left at an orphanage by her father, a young girl journeys home. (21mins, scripted)
Look concept: a soft, melancholic view of Belarus in the 1990s.
Cinematography
Behrooz Karamizade
Direction
Aliaksei Paluyan
Make-up
Yuliya Pyakina
Editing
Aliaksei Paluyan
Jibril (2018)
A single mother-of-three falls in love with an emotionally immature prisoner. (83mins, scripted)
Look concept: a story told over four seasons – four very different looks reflect the characters’ journeys.
Cinematography
Carolina Steinbrecher
Direction
Henrika Kull
Production design
Theresa Reiwer
Costumes
Wiebke Lebus
Producing
Henrika Kull
Sophie Lakow
