Bio
I’m a filmmaker working across narrative film, documentary and commercial projects, guided by sustained research into intergenerational memory, belief and archives.
Writing is central to my process.
I studied a BSc and later an MSc in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Anthropology’s emphasis on participation and embodied knowledge continues to inform how I work with people and places.
This approach extends into my ongoing engagement with urbanism through Freehold Magazine, where I focus on placemaking and everyday interventions into urban spaces.
Alongside my film practice, I work commercially with start-ups, fashion brands and cultural institutions. My commercial experience includes project management, branding, graphic design and creative direction.
Email: brandonstcatherine@gmail.com
Instagram: @beesaintcee
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INGRID POLLARD DOC 45456
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Producer: Bailee Cordice
Director: Brandon St. Catherine
DOP: Moses Fiddian Green
Editor: Brandon St. Catheine
4k Video
16:9
Colour
1 minutes, 1 secondDESCRIPTION
This music video with BlankFaceBails uses triptych and multi-panel compositions to enter into dialogue with the work of Ingrid Pollard, whose use of portraiture and traditional landscape imagery interrogates social constructs such as Britishness, belonging and racial difference.
Taking Pollard’s concerns as a starting point, the video work engages with some of the same critical questions, particularly around representation and space. While Pollard’s work often asks what it means for people of colour to be present within the British countryside, this video extends that inquiry into the urban environment: spaces where natural landscapes are fragmented, marginal, or absent altogether.
From this position, the film reflects on how people of colour encounter and relate to nature within cities, and what forms of respite and/or estrangement urban “natural” spaces can offer. The multi-panel compositions are designed to evoke a dialogue between the organic and the constructed, the pastoral and the infrastructural, allowing natural and man-made elements to coexist.