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Alex Cardy is an Australian Director of Photography who has worked on award-winning feature films, short films, music videos and across numerous fashion festivals and campaigns.

Her previous full-time positions include, Senior Video Producer at NME and Look magazine at Time Inc UK and Creative Producer at VICE within VICELAB, a department geared around producing groundbreaking, thought-provoking, & creative interstitial content for SBSVICELAND (Australia) and VICELAND NZ (New Zealand).

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‘Living Room’ selected for Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
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'Living Room' has been selected into the Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 Australian Shorts program. For screening and ticket information please see the link attached.

‘We’re Getting Pool’ (feature film) awarded funding support from Creative Victoria Creators Fund Program
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"Writer and filmmaker Jessica Lawton will undertake a six-month period of intensive practical research exploring what 'the Australian dream' means today. Working with mentor and leading social researcher Pamela Souvlis, director of photography Alex Cardy, casting agents and refugee community support groups, Jessica will connect with people from a range of backgrounds. Her learnings will inform the concept for a new hybrid feature film We're Getting a Pool.”

‘We’re Not Here’ selected for Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
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'We're Not Here' has been selected into the Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 Australian Shorts program. For screening and ticket information please see the link attached.

‘Guests’ (web series) awarded funding support from AMP Foundation
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"Drawing on elements of her PhD, part of which focuses on feelings about belonging and ownership for migrant groups in Australia, Meleesha will create Guests – a six-part web series exploring the dynamics between migrants working in an airport hotel to be shot by director of photography Alex Cardy."

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Living Room (Short Film)

Writers: Rhys Mitchell & Jessica Barclay Lawton
Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Producers: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Rhys Mitchell
Line Producer: Rumi Tominaga
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Sound Designer & Composer: Gunay Demirci
Editor: Paul Rowe

Offical Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Offical Competition Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019

Link to full film
available on request.
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Bender (Short Film)

Cinematographer, Director & Producer: Alex Cardy
Co-Director: Bonnie Moir
Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Matt Hickmott & Josh Lavery
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris
Music From: Lakutis


Link to full film
available on request.
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International Womens Day: 50 Shades of No (Online Campaign)

Director: Annelise Hickey
Producer: Jess Langley
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Design: Bronwyn Kemp
Editor: Grace Eyre at The Editors
Production Company: The Otto Empire


Shortlisted for Cannes Glass Lion 2018
Winner of the Best Low Budget Award at Ciclope Festival Asia 2018
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We're Not Here (Short Film)

Director: Bonnie Moir (Exit Films)
Producer: Benjamin Rigby
Written By: Adam Spellicy
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Starring: Benjamin Rigby & Pekka Strang
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Underwater Unit Cinematography: Darren Crawford
Sound Design & Mix: Lachlan Harris
Colour Grade: Kali Bateman

Official Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Official Competition Outfest Los Angeles International Film Festival 21019

Link to full film
available on request.
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Land Rover Presents The Last Defender (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Second Camera: Reuben Ward
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
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Alpine: Foolish (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Visual Effects Supervisor: Emily Baker
Designer: Holly Russell


Winner of the 'Ripe Clip of the Week' Channel V
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The Kite String Tangle: What If (Music Video)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Cast: Lily Sullivan, Toby Wallace, Rhys, Rhys' mate, Caitlin, Katie
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iD / Lee Jeans: Movers & Shakers (Branded Content)

Director: Freya Esders
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Producers: Jess Langley & Kalu Williams
Editor: Lara Krose
Production Company: Vice Australia
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DMA’S: Time & Money (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Richard Chapman
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Kandere: Femmes with Guns (Music Video)

Director: David Murphy
Producer: Christina Radburn
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Camera Assistant: Bonnie Moir
Makeup Artist: Matias Mena
Production Assistant: Geryon Suda
Grader: Jenna Eriksen
Special Thanks: Darius Family at Post Lab IO
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Oscar Key Sung: All I Could Do (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy

Winner of Channel V Clip of the Week
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Vangoffey ft. Daisy Lowe: Sucker (Music Video)

Director: Stroma Cairns
Producer: Hannah Bellil
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Company: Pretty Bird UK

Official premiere featured on nowness.com 2016
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Hermitude: Virbation (Live Music Video)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
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Fortunes: My Room (Music Video)

Director & Editor: Natalie Nalesnyik
Producer: Anne-Maree Shelton
Cinematography: Alex Cardy
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Alpine: Foolish (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Visual Effects Supervisor: Emily Baker
Designer: Holly Russell


Winner of the 'Ripe Clip of the Week' Channel V
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The Kite String Tangle: What If (Music Video)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Cast: Lily Sullivan, Toby Wallace, Rhys, Rhys' mate, Caitlin, Katie
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DMA’S: Time & Money (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Richard Chapman
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Madeline Leman & The Desert Swells: Diva With The Fever of Change (Music Video)

Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Srini Madhaven
Production Designer: Alice Brew
Art Department Assistants: Sean Sully, Heath McIvor, Chloe Dann, Jerome Kamang, Alexander Bleakley
Hair & MUA: Dana Levinston
Colourist: Nicholas Hower
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Hoon (Album Film)

Director & Producer: Scott McCulloch
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Music By: Footy
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Midnight Juggernauts: Ballard of The War Machine (Music Video)

Director: Midnight Juggernauts
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy & John Smith
Editor: Vincent Vendetta
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
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Sweet Jean: Annabelle (Music Video)

Director: Sweet Jean
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
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Google (Branded Content)

Director: Jessica Lawton
Production Company: Truce
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Hannah Palmer
Cast: Khalid Warsame, Jamie Marina Lau & Tegan Webb
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OpenPay (Branded Content)

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Australian Clinical Trials: Jarryd Roughhead's Journey (Online Campaign )

Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Company: Truce
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Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (Online Content)

'Emerging' is one of 5 official clips produced along with dozens of daily media reels
and exclusive interviews commissioned by the Official Sponsor CITY OF MELBOURNE.

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Production Manager: Steph Marks
1st AC: Ben Colson
Editor: Nathan Bobik
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
Music By: Alta
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Babylon Music Festival (Visual Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Keying: Tristan Jalleh
Flower Animation: Supplied By Babylon Music Festival
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International Womens Day: 50 Shades of No (Online Campaign)

Director: Annelise Hickey
Producer: Jess Langley
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Design: Bronwyn Kemp
Editor: Grace Eyre at The Editors
Production Company: The Otto Empire


Shortlisted for Cannes Glass Lion 2018
Winner of the Best Low Budget Award at Ciclope Festival Asia 2018
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NME: Taylor Swift October Cover Campaign (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Nick Howler
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Land Rover Presents The Last Defender (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Second Camera: Reuben Ward
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
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iD / Lee Jeans: Movers & Shakers (Branded Content)

Director: Freya Esders
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Producers: Jess Langley & Kalu Williams
Editor: Lara Krose
Production Company: Vice Australia
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Jeanswest (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Nick Howler
Music By: Sui Zhen
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Nightshift (Feature Documentary)

Director & Producer: Meleesha Bardolia
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy


Link to full film
available on request.
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Ruin (Feature Film)

Directors & Producers: Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Director of Photography: Ari Wegner
2nd Unit Director of Photography & B-Camera Main Unit: Alex Cardy
Editors: Simon Price, Sally Blenheim & Luca Capelli
Production & Costume Designer: Leah Poppel

Official Selection Orizzonti Venice Film Festival 2013
Special Jury Prize Orizzonti Venice Film Festival 2013
Official Selection Camerimage International Film Festival 2014
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2014
Best Cinematography 2morrow Festival Russia 2013
Best Cinematography Sopot International Film Festival Poland 2015
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On Demand (Art Installation)

Director, Writer, Editor & Performer: Eugenia Lim
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Choreography: Nat Cursip
Composer: Becky Sui Zhen
Colourist: Chris Tompkins

When installed, this is a pedal-powered work. The viewer is invited to sit on a bicycle to cycle and work up a sweat to activate the work.

Made in collaboration with workers from the gig economy, On-demand is a pedal-powered video work that considers work, labour, solidarity and movement (political and physical) in the neoliberal present. Living and working in 2019 brings precarity, competition and mobility – both for independent artists and ‘independent contractors’ of the gig economy. Self-exploitation, low wages and zero-hour contracts are shared terrain for many workers in both the cultural and service sectors.
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Living Room (Short Film)

Writers: Rhys Mitchell & Jessica Barclay Lawton
Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Producers: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Rhys Mitchell
Line Producer: Rumi Tominaga
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Sound Designer & Composer: Gunay Demirci
Editor: Paul Rowe

Offical Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Offical Competition Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019

Link to full film
available on request.
Close

Bender (Short Film)

Cinematographer, Director & Producer: Alex Cardy
Co-Director: Bonnie Moir
Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Matt Hickmott & Josh Lavery
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris
Music From: Lakutis


Link to full film
available on request.
Close

We're Not Here (Short Film)

Director: Bonnie Moir (Exit Films)
Producer: Benjamin Rigby
Written By: Adam Spellicy
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Starring: Benjamin Rigby & Pekka Strang
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Underwater Unit Cinematography: Darren Crawford
Sound Design & Mix: Lachlan Harris
Colour Grade: Kali Bateman

Official Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Official Competition Outfest Los Angeles International Film Festival 21019

Link to full film
available on request.
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The Great Gatsby: Behind The Scenes Featuette (Documentary)

Producer: Kane Senes
Cinematographer & Assembly Editor: Alex Cardy
Production Company: Bazmark Inq

Link to featurette
available on request.
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Living Room (Short Film)

Writers: Rhys Mitchell & Jessica Barclay Lawton
Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Producers: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Rhys Mitchell
Line Producer: Rumi Tominaga
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Sound Designer & Composer: Gunay Demirci
Editor: Paul Rowe

Offical Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Offical Competition Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019

Link to full film
available on request.
Close

Bender (Short Film)

Cinematographer, Director & Producer: Alex Cardy
Co-Director: Bonnie Moir
Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Matt Hickmott & Josh Lavery
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris
Music From: Lakutis


Link to full film
available on request.
Close

International Womens Day: 50 Shades of No (Online Campaign)

Director: Annelise Hickey
Producer: Jess Langley
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Design: Bronwyn Kemp
Editor: Grace Eyre at The Editors
Production Company: The Otto Empire


Shortlisted for Cannes Glass Lion 2018
Winner of the Best Low Budget Award at Ciclope Festival Asia 2018
Close

We're Not Here (Short Film)

Director: Bonnie Moir (Exit Films)
Producer: Benjamin Rigby
Written By: Adam Spellicy
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Starring: Benjamin Rigby & Pekka Strang
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Underwater Unit Cinematography: Darren Crawford
Sound Design & Mix: Lachlan Harris
Colour Grade: Kali Bateman

Official Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Official Competition Outfest Los Angeles International Film Festival 21019

Link to full film
available on request.
Close

Land Rover Presents The Last Defender (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Second Camera: Reuben Ward
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
Close

Alpine: Foolish (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Visual Effects Supervisor: Emily Baker
Designer: Holly Russell


Winner of the 'Ripe Clip of the Week' Channel V
Close

The Kite String Tangle: What If (Music Video)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Cast: Lily Sullivan, Toby Wallace, Rhys, Rhys' mate, Caitlin, Katie
Close

iD / Lee Jeans: Movers & Shakers (Branded Content)

Director: Freya Esders
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Producers: Jess Langley & Kalu Williams
Editor: Lara Krose
Production Company: Vice Australia
Close

DMA’S: Time & Money (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Richard Chapman
Close

Kandere: Femmes with Guns (Music Video)

Director: David Murphy
Producer: Christina Radburn
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Camera Assistant: Bonnie Moir
Makeup Artist: Matias Mena
Production Assistant: Geryon Suda
Grader: Jenna Eriksen
Special Thanks: Darius Family at Post Lab IO
Close

Oscar Key Sung: All I Could Do (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy

Winner of Channel V Clip of the Week
Close

Vangoffey ft. Daisy Lowe: Sucker (Music Video)

Director: Stroma Cairns
Producer: Hannah Bellil
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Company: Pretty Bird UK

Official premiere featured on nowness.com 2016
Close

Hermitude: Virbation (Live Music Video)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Close

Fortunes: My Room (Music Video)

Director & Editor: Natalie Nalesnyik
Producer: Anne-Maree Shelton
Cinematography: Alex Cardy
Close

Alpine: Foolish (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Visual Effects Supervisor: Emily Baker
Designer: Holly Russell


Winner of the 'Ripe Clip of the Week' Channel V
Close

The Kite String Tangle: What If (Music Video)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Cast: Lily Sullivan, Toby Wallace, Rhys, Rhys' mate, Caitlin, Katie
Close

DMA’S: Time & Money (Music Video)

Director & Animator: Tristan Jalleh
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Richard Chapman
Close

Madeline Leman & The Desert Swells: Diva With The Fever of Change (Music Video)

Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Srini Madhaven
Production Designer: Alice Brew
Art Department Assistants: Sean Sully, Heath McIvor, Chloe Dann, Jerome Kamang, Alexander Bleakley
Hair & MUA: Dana Levinston
Colourist: Nicholas Hower
Close

Hoon (Album Film)

Director & Producer: Scott McCulloch
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Music By: Footy
Close

Midnight Juggernauts: Ballard of The War Machine (Music Video)

Director: Midnight Juggernauts
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy & John Smith
Editor: Vincent Vendetta
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
Close

Sweet Jean: Annabelle (Music Video)

Director: Sweet Jean
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
Close

Google (Branded Content)

Director: Jessica Lawton
Production Company: Truce
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Gaffer: Hannah Palmer
Cast: Khalid Warsame, Jamie Marina Lau & Tegan Webb
Close

OpenPay (Branded Content)

Close

Australian Clinical Trials: Jarryd Roughhead's Journey (Online Campaign )

Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Company: Truce
Close

Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (Online Content)

'Emerging' is one of 5 official clips produced along with dozens of daily media reels
and exclusive interviews commissioned by the Official Sponsor CITY OF MELBOURNE.

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Production Manager: Steph Marks
1st AC: Ben Colson
Editor: Nathan Bobik
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
Music By: Alta
Close

Babylon Music Festival (Visual Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Keying: Tristan Jalleh
Flower Animation: Supplied By Babylon Music Festival
Close

International Womens Day: 50 Shades of No (Online Campaign)

Director: Annelise Hickey
Producer: Jess Langley
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Production Design: Bronwyn Kemp
Editor: Grace Eyre at The Editors
Production Company: The Otto Empire


Shortlisted for Cannes Glass Lion 2018
Winner of the Best Low Budget Award at Ciclope Festival Asia 2018
Close

NME: Taylor Swift October Cover Campaign (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Nick Howler
Close

Land Rover Presents The Last Defender (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Second Camera: Reuben Ward
Colourist: Chris Tompkins
Close

iD / Lee Jeans: Movers & Shakers (Branded Content)

Director: Freya Esders
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Producers: Jess Langley & Kalu Williams
Editor: Lara Krose
Production Company: Vice Australia
Close

Jeanswest (Online Campaign)

Cinematographer & Director: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Nick Howler
Music By: Sui Zhen
Close

Nightshift (Feature Documentary)

Director & Producer: Meleesha Bardolia
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy


Link to full film
available on request.
Close

Ruin (Feature Film)

Directors & Producers: Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Director of Photography: Ari Wegner
2nd Unit Director of Photography & B-Camera Main Unit: Alex Cardy
Editors: Simon Price, Sally Blenheim & Luca Capelli
Production & Costume Designer: Leah Poppel

Official Selection Orizzonti Venice Film Festival 2013
Special Jury Prize Orizzonti Venice Film Festival 2013
Official Selection Camerimage International Film Festival 2014
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2014
Best Cinematography 2morrow Festival Russia 2013
Best Cinematography Sopot International Film Festival Poland 2015
Close

On Demand (Art Installation)

Director, Writer, Editor & Performer: Eugenia Lim
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Choreography: Nat Cursip
Composer: Becky Sui Zhen
Colourist: Chris Tompkins

When installed, this is a pedal-powered work. The viewer is invited to sit on a bicycle to cycle and work up a sweat to activate the work.

Made in collaboration with workers from the gig economy, On-demand is a pedal-powered video work that considers work, labour, solidarity and movement (political and physical) in the neoliberal present. Living and working in 2019 brings precarity, competition and mobility – both for independent artists and ‘independent contractors’ of the gig economy. Self-exploitation, low wages and zero-hour contracts are shared terrain for many workers in both the cultural and service sectors.
Close

Living Room (Short Film)

Writers: Rhys Mitchell & Jessica Barclay Lawton
Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Producers: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Rhys Mitchell
Line Producer: Rumi Tominaga
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Sound Designer & Composer: Gunay Demirci
Editor: Paul Rowe

Offical Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Offical Competition Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019

Link to full film
available on request.
Close

Bender (Short Film)

Cinematographer, Director & Producer: Alex Cardy
Co-Director: Bonnie Moir
Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Matt Hickmott & Josh Lavery
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris
Music From: Lakutis


Link to full film
available on request.
Close

We're Not Here (Short Film)

Director: Bonnie Moir (Exit Films)
Producer: Benjamin Rigby
Written By: Adam Spellicy
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Starring: Benjamin Rigby & Pekka Strang
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Underwater Unit Cinematography: Darren Crawford
Sound Design & Mix: Lachlan Harris
Colour Grade: Kali Bateman

Official Competition Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Official Competition Outfest Los Angeles International Film Festival 21019

Link to full film
available on request.
Close

The Great Gatsby: Behind The Scenes Featuette (Documentary)

Producer: Kane Senes
Cinematographer & Assembly Editor: Alex Cardy
Production Company: Bazmark Inq

Link to featurette
available on request.