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Chris Phillips.

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GET IN TOUCH

Email:
chris@thingsbychris.com

I'm a filmmaker from Melbourne specialising in cinematic documentaries. I've worked on many things – documentaries, TV shows, campaign creative direction, projection installations, motion graphics, print design and photography. I also assembled an Ikea bookshelf the other week and it's mostly straight, but given how long it took I'd suggest you only get in touch if you need one of the other things.


THINGS I DO.

Film & Video

I've mostly worked in video of late directing a mix of documentaries and branded content. I enjoy all levels of production– from directing large crews to a nimble documentary set ups. I’m very experienced working in unique situations having filmed in Uganda, Ethiopia, Niger, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste.

 

Campaign Creative Direction

I’ve worked at a variety of agencies pitching and executing multi-platform campaigns as a creative director & art director. Over the last few years I've delivered full scale campaigns working solo for clients like: The Red Cross, Nike and Bendigo Bank..

Art Direction & Design

My original training was in digital design, and a love of typography and good aesthetics still permeates everything I work on today.  I still take on design campaign work including print and digital executions.

PEOPLE I’VE MADE THINGS WITH.

DOCUMENTARIES

SOCIAL CAUSES

COMMERICAL

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EXPERIENCE MAKING THINGS.

2024-2015

Filmmaker & Creative Director
Freelance 

Directing a feature documentary in East Timor and a short doc in Papua New Guinea.  Cinematographer on an SBS food show. Delivering campaigns for Bendigo Bank, TAC and Nike as a boutique agency.

2012-2015

Creative Director
Hotglue

Working as a creative director on commercial things.

2012-2013

Filmmaker
Plan Australia

Traveling to film development work in Uganda, Ethiopia, Niger, Cameroon, East Timor, Cambodia, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste.

2012-2011

Art Director
JWT & George Patts

Working as a freelance Art Director delivering international campaign concepts.

2006-2010

Art Director  
Visual Jazz

First gig out of uni starting as a digital designer, ending as the Creative lead on the Holden / GM Auto account.

 


INSTAGRAMMED THINGS

Old snap from 2019, running into Joseph from Yangis while location scouting in Kompiam. One in a million highlands encounter!
@mattabbottphoto and @dean_sewell in Bredbo ACT n the frontline of the Black Summer fires in Australia in 2020. 

Stills from film Capturing Change viewable at: aje.io/Change

@ajwitness @screenaustralia @jninstitute
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@mattabbottphoto on the frontlines during the Black Summer fires in Australia. Film at: aje.io/Change

@ajwitness @screenaustralia @jninstitute
Cinematography by @_michael_latham_
Colour by @mattfezz

#Australia #BlackSummer #bushfires #wildfires #cl
@mattabbottphoto photographing the aftermath of the Black Summer fires in Australia. Film at: aje.io/Change

@ajwitness @screenaustralia @jninstitute
Cinematography by @_michael_latham_
Colour by @mattfezz

#Australia #BlackSummer #bushfires #wildfir
Stills from Capturing Change. The Fletcher Family in Lake Conjola who lost their home in the Black Summer fires on December 31, 2019

@mattabbottphoto on the frontlines during the Black Summer fires in Australia. Film launching Nov 1 for @ajwitness @
Still from Capturing Change. Matthew Abbott - Feb 1 2020 near Bredbo ACT
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Upcoming work launching soon - @mattabbottphoto on the frontlines during the Black Summer fires in Australia. for @ajwitness @screenaustralia @jninstitute. Cinematography
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Upcoming work launching soon - @mattabbottphoto on the frontlines during the Black Summer fires in Australia. for @ajwitness @screenaustralia @aidcmelb @jninstitute
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Upcoming work launching soon - @mattabbottphoto on the frontlines during the Black Summer fires in Australia. for @ajwitness @screenaustralia @jninstitute  @aidcmelb.
Cinematography by @_michael_latham_
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Upcoming work launching soon - @mattabbottphoto on the frontlines during the Black Summer fires in Australia. for @ajwitness @screenaustralia @jninstitute  @aidcmelb. Cinematography by @_michael_latham_
#Australia #

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THINGS I LIKE ON THE INTERNET 

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