ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Pirie; a multi-award winning filmmaker, writer, and artist from Adelaide, South Australia. I create worlds and fill them with cool stuff.
Ever since I was four years old I’ve been writing and making films, having been blessed with parents who encouraged that sort of thing. Back in the day it was all just fun and make-believe, but as I’ve matured (debatable) I’ve come to appreciate the incredible power fiction has.
For me, the act of telling and listening to stories is not just neurologically fascinating - it’s probably the most uniquely human thing about this weird little species of ours. I’m fuelled by a passion for language, psychology, history, science, philosophy, myth, and an undying love of worldbuilding. My goal is to deliver audiences something unique, complex, awe-inspiring, emotional, and original.
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My debut feature ‘Psychosis’ (2023) won 4 top awards at Philadelphia Unnamed, Horrorfest international, and Sherman Oaks film festival, was nominated for Best Feature at the prestigious Popcorn Frights Horror film festival, and was released internationally in 2024 to glowing reviews.
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My unique creative style has been compared to the early works of David Lynch and Darren Aronofsky. Growing as an artist I am increasingly fascinated by early 20th century Modernist film movements, Structuralism, Defamiliarization, and Metafiction. Don't let that fool you though, I still love good old fashioned popcorn entertainment! Two of my biggest inspirations are Steven Spielberg and James Cameron.​
More exciting film and literary projects are always in development, taking up much of my valuable sleeping time.
Being the son of two artists; an illustrator/printmaker and a ceramicist/graphic designer, I also have a long standing love of things hung on walls. My own artwork is expressionistic and meditative, primarily landscape oil paintings, etchings, and digital art. You can find my work here.
