False positive – 2024, 11’, 3-channel

Over the sound of a geiger counter, this film asks what does it mean and how does it feel to be ‘sensitive’?

Exhibitions:
’Hide Me, Steal Me, Be Nice to Me’ @ Arthall, Malta – 2025
Convenience Gallery Summer Exhibition – 2024
’Hide Me, Steal Me, Be Nice to Me’ @ Arte.M, Portugal – 2024

A ‘false positive’ result can be returned when a piece of equipment is too sensitive, or if the stimuli it is detecting has a very weak signal. The instrument will detect something despite there  being nothing – just the usual background noise.

The familiar is defamiliarised throughout False Positive: though we see a trip to Tesco or a journey on Merseyrail, we only hear the insistent ticking of a geiger counter. Inspired by my neurodivergent experience, the film asks what does it mean to be ‘sensitive’? How does a heightened sensitivity to stimuli affect our perception of our environment and those around us?

False Positive was funded through the Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England.