Videographer, editor, and documentary filmmaker
Former dancer and choreographer.
Christopher is a multidisciplinary filmmaker whose work explores the creative process across art forms. His documentary practice centres on artists at work, capturing the nuance, vulnerability, and evolution of making. His collaborations span projects with Carolyn Bolton, Liam Francis Dance Company (at Royal Opera House and with The Cunningham Trust), Jona Dance (notably Quicksilver and Reflections both in 2025), Box Artist Management, his long-term collaborator Jordan Hunt (notably a new series of visualises for the new EP Long Last 2026), Jacob Wye/People On The Move and Akram Khan Company, with whom he’s been collaborating on multiple documentary shorts through 2026, to be released next year. His most recent film with AKC was screened at Dance Umbrella 2026 as a prelude to a conversation between Akram Khan and Kevin O’Hare.
Christopher has been collaborating with Chance to Dance and Royal Ballet and Opera since 2024, creating films that document the development of young talent across the country as participants prepare for the Next Generation Festival. These films are presented as part of the performances at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House.
His ongoing documentation of Liam Francis Dance Company continues to expand with the release of documentary shorts Between Purple: An Exploration of Intersection and A Body Of Brothers: Remounting A Body Of Rumours, to be released in late 2026.
Christopher’s feature-length and serial documentary projects include Inside the Vault (2024) and The Guests (2024) with renowned artist Christopher Bucklow; Boundless Body (2025), an eight-part series and feature with choreographer Elizabeth Arifien in collaboration with East London Dance, London College of Fashion and the Digital Body Festival; QUEER’D: Finding joy, outside of happiness (2025) with Miles Kearley/Dynamicaa; and Oracle Song with award-winning dance artist Jonathan Goddard, due for release next year. He is also excited to be working with Grammy-nominated musician Olivia Chaney, documenting the recording process of her new record.
In 2025, The Guests was screened across North America by Christopher Bucklow in universities to accompany lectures about his work. Also, Boundless Body was screened at the Centro Integrando de Cultura (CIC), Brazil, for dyslexia awareness week, and QUEER’D: Finding joy, outside of happiness had its first public screening at Avalon Cafe, London.
As a live performance videographer and trailer editor, Christopher has worked on numerous productions including Oracle Song: A Sharing at Stone Nest, QUEER’D at Rose Lipman, Next Generation Festival at Linbury Theatre, Perennial at The Coronet and The Grange, Liam Francis/Family Sunday at the Clore Studio Theatre. Also, he worked with Rambert Grades/Rambert School for online content regarding courses and new syllabi: Future Movers 2025. He also worked as a camera operator and editor during the rehearsal process of Dizzy, the UK’s 2024 Eurovision entry performed by Olly Alexander under the creative direction of Theo Adams and BBC multicam director Nikki Parsons.
His purely dance-film directing and editing credits include the feature-length dance film In Light of Those You Love (2019) for Retrospect Dance Theatre and the dance film series To the Ocean Floor (2021-2024) and The Three Visions (2022) in collaboration with composer Jordan Hunt. In music video work, he produced, filmed, and edited Circus of Desire (2023) for Grammy-nominated musician Olivia Chaney, Ocean Floor (2021) for Jordan Hunt, and served as assistant movement director to Masumi Saito on Love Lost for Alto Arc with Isamaya Ffrench.
In the podcast and conversation space, Christopher edits Candid Convos with Jona Dance (2024-) and edits and films Deep Down with Jordan Hunt (2025-), which serve as art films and visual accompaniments to the podcast; all episodes for both podcasts are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. In 2026, he also multi-cam filmed and edited a conversation between Akram Khan and Jane Pritchard MBE at V&A East: Storehouse. Discussing the V&A acquiring the Akram Khan Company archive ahead of its closure in 2027.
Before focusing on filmmaking, Christopher was a dancer and choreographer. He was named Young Choreographer of the Year (2017) was a Young Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells, creating works for both of the theatre’s stages, most notably To the Ocean Floor (2018) with long-term collaborator Jordan Hunt. Together, they have developed an extensive portfolio of works, including Within These Walls (2022-2023), danced by Royal Ballet principal Joseph Sissens. Christopher also co-founded Retrospect Dance Theatre (2017–2018), for which he performed and choreographed alongside Hannah McGlashon, including the company’s full-length work In Light of Those You Love (2019), which toured nationally and internationally before premiering in its film adaptation at Whirled Cinema, London in 2019.
Other notable dance experiences include: New Adventures (2019-2023), Mark Bruce Company (2017-2023), Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, James Cousins, Arlene Philips, Rambert Dance Company, Arielle Smith, Gemma Payne Productions, Richard Chappell, Charlotte Edmonds, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh, Bill Kenwright, and Belfast Ensemble. Christopher trained at White Lodge, The Royal Ballet School (2008-2013) and Rambert School (2013-2017) for his formative dance training.
