Make your
PAIN RHYME
‘Til it becomes
POETRY.
ARTIST CORNER
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Living by my ethos, 'Make Your Pain Rhyme Until It Becomes Poetry,' I'm an artist at the intersection of film and music telling ‘ugly’ stories in beautiful ways. I create because life is both glorious and tragic, and art is my means to articulate our nuanced existences.
I was brought up a black boy by bi-racial, lesbian parents in the predominantly white city of Cambridge, as a result my early confrontations with various discriminations inspired me to create art that defies labels and breaks out of the imaginary “box”.
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A collection of highlights from the release of NOTHING BEYOND, an audio-visual project, written, produced, directed and edited by myself and funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign.
MUSIC
A series of videos that although utilise music, brach out into the exploration of character and storytelling; including the viral BLACKWASH, a video art piece that caught the attention and support of Emmy winning Hollywood producer, actor and writer Lena Waithe.
VIDEO ART
A few years ago I lost my voice for a year after Covid, although terrifying and devastating, I refused to let it hold me back, writing this series of poems with accompanying videos.
POETRY
YOUR LIFE IS CINEMA, LOOK CLOSER is a video series created during my recent travels, inspired by the desire to elevate ordinary every day moments, finding beauty and narrative in unexpected places.
TRAVEL FILMS
UPCOMING
PROJECTS
ME AND MY BRAIN
MUSIC VIDEO
ME AND MY BRAIN is taken from the upcoming project A PERPETUAL FALLING FORWARDS, the video for which was captured in Indonesia and follows the journey of a man on the brink for ‘breaking up’ with a brain he believes is no longer serving him.
Directed | Shot | Edited | Composed by KYAN
2025 release
THORN IN PARADISE
MUSIC VIDEO
THORN IN PARADISE is the lead single the upcoming project A PERPETUAL FALLING FORWARDS, the video for which features the family of my plumber after they discovered he was a musician. The result is an explosive, wholesome piece that suspends the feeling of pure joy in the midst of a complex world.
Directed | Shot | Edited | Composed by KYAN
2025 release
THE LAST FREE MAN ON EARTH
Documentary
Runtime : 22 minutes
Directed | Shot | Edited | Composed by KYAN
In pursuit of enlightenment, a platinum selling record producer left his hedonistic life behind to live in a cave. Nine years later he continues to grapple with the question, what does it mean to be free?
2025 release
THE ISLAND (beta)
DOCUMENTARY
After a series of catastrophic life events, a filmmaker receives an invitation to participate in experimental psychological therapy on a remote island in Southeast Asia, but as the healing process blurs the lines between reality and fiction, he begins to doubt the true intentions of the experiment.
Directed | Shot | Edited | Composed by KYAN
2025 release