Jonny Rogers
New Entrant Camera Trainee
Director of Photography | Soundtrack Composer
Freelance Photographer & Videographer
Having recently graduated from Ulster University Belfast with First Class Honours in BA Screen Production, I’m currently working part-time as a Freelance Photographer and Videographer.
I’m a festival-selected experimental short filmmaker, DOP, and Composer, featured in the Cinemagic ON THE PULSE Short Film Festival 2024 for my 3-minute independent short film An Inventory of Traces (2023).
After re-exploring music composition during the summer of 2023, I was asked to take on a Soundtrack Composer role in addition to my role as Director of Photography for two of Sydney A.M.’s directoral debut student short films: Mildew (2024) and Aloysius (2025). Mildew (2024) was selected to be screened in competition as part of Belfast Film Festival 2024’s Long Short Weekend, while Aloysius (2025) was also selected by Belfast Film Festival 2025 to be screened as part of the New Irish Shorts category.
I’m also one of four members of the Morceaux Collective, a group of multimedia artists and filmmakers based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Artist Statement
A fascination with texture and detail kick-started my interest in art. It was in the techniques of hyper-realistic pencil drawing that I encountered the important process of breaking down complex, realistic images into seemingly insignificant, textural and technical components. Throughout the development of my work in filmmaking, I have continued to discover this concept of abstract reconstruction through the themes and techniques that I explore.
As a Christian, my life has always been tightly interwoven with existential questions of faith, meaning, and human nature. It has been through seeking to unpack the depths of my own beliefs, and the views of others, that I have been inspired by the techniques of avant-garde and surrealist cinema. The process of uncovering the internal patterns of life through the layering of abstract details provides a unique lens for viewing ontological questions on God, morality, and purpose. My practical approach to filmmaking has been shaped by the surrealist proposition that film, in its essence, offers an invitation into a waking dream-state, in which the filmmaker uncovers their questions and intimate perceptions of the world and boldly presents them as an immediate communal experience, revealing aspects of our selves, relationships, and culture, that would otherwise remain unseen.
