A DocNomads joint master degree alumni in documentary directing from Lusofona Universidade in Lisbon, The Hungarian University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, and LUCA School of Art in Brussels. An academic in the arts of documentary film, camera operation and film editing theory.

A licensed Abu Dhabi Media Zone Authority freelancer since 2013, based in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.

His list of multi-lingual directed short film documentary productions has been screened in numerous film festivals around the world, including many others he has filmed and edited.

With the passion of academia, he has been working as a production and post-production instructor with multiple academic programs organized by Image Nation Abu Dhabi (Arab Film Studio) and CNN Academy Abu Dhabi. 

He has been involved in various productions locally in the UAE and internationally with a focus on Documentary & ENG.

A collaborating filmmaker with MaSC (Music and Sound Cultures) a New York University Abu Dhabi research laboratory and center specializing in sonic ethnography from both archival and research principles, involved in documenting historical cultures, traditions and music, at the momentspecifically the Shihuh tribe. He has been part of the first cohort of SPECTRUM (2022/2023) photography art residency that is part of Manarat Al Saadiyat.

An installation exhibiting artist in film and photography, exhibiting in Qasr Al Hosn Abu Dhabi, Dubai SIKKA Art and Design Festival, and COP28 in EXPO City Dubai, and London Design Biennale which won the award of the Biennale in 2023.

Artist Statement:

“Constant Oblivion”

Stories and sounds provoke feelings inside us.

We are all hyper receptive to moments and spaces, but most unwittingly escape their own receptivity.

An obsession is required to capture a story in a moment of time, to record the sonics that surrounds it. This is how to covey indescribable feelings a moment generates inside us.

Images whether in motion or frozen in time are the ultimate storyteller, within the medium of sound stories become multidimensional.

There is something monolithic when you strip away the colors; an ungrateful act but rather a necessary evil.

Words consistently fail me, and it seems that I will always be oblivious to them.

Storytelling is our most valuable yet intangible part of our humanity. It is what makes us human. It is how we share love, hate, lust and madness. We have created all sorts of structures to share those feelings, to judge and be judged.

Within the medium of black and white film, photography and composed field records, I’ve discovered my language.

Most have accepted being in the state of “Constant Oblivion”. I struggle to find peace with self-accepted ignorance, even when words fail me.

Art, is where I found my language.