Nathan Whalley

I worked as Director of Photography on Still Blue and Twenty Years Buried. With very different stories, tone and aesthetic, this gave me the opportunity to explore a variety of cinematic techniques. The chance to work with multiple collaborators helped me to develop effective communication skills and has given me good perspective on the production process as I look for new collaborators as a writer, director and cinematographer.

Still Blue tells the story of an attentive middle-aged man, William Daihbis, visiting his Mother in an elderly care Dementia unit over the course of her final year of life. The film explores the challenges that a disease like Alzheimer's has on what was once a tight-knit family of two and denotes the themes of whether or not it's worth the hardship/stress that it takes to continue the relationship.

Twenty Years Buried is a live-action Western short film set in the midst of New Zealand's first gold rush. A grizzled mercenary transports a bounty of two criminal siblings to their execution. Their journey is violently derailed by the ghosts of his past, despite his best efforts to bury it. With gunslingers and threats closing in, he must confront his past to finish the job … or die trying.