MY WORK
WELCOME!
Hi, I'm Denby. I make digital stories. Films, interactive stories, VR experiences, multimedia features, and other kinds of immersive narratives. I'm also a practice-based researcher and a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
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My work is about navigating a course through controversial public conversations, and creating digital experiences that bring us together. My research combines Open Space New Media Documentary approaches with science and technology studies and poststructuralist theory.
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I teach digital screen production techniques that focus on innovation and the affordances of technology. My work is underpinned by a deep love for storytelling, and sprinkled with wild enthusiasm for emerging technologies.
I live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
UNVACCINATED
2023
"Unvaccinated" is a short documentary production evolving out of my PhD research. I talk to people who have chosen not to have a Covid-19 vaccination, to hear about their relationship to mainstream news, and how their lives on social media have shaped their decisions.
4 DEGREES
Coming in 2026
Immersive documentary
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4 Degrees is a virtual reality experience that immerses the participant in a world impacted by four degrees of global warming... and then brings them back to a world where change is still possible.
BUNYIP
Narrative feature film
Coming soon
"Bunyip" is a micro-budget thriller written by me, and directed and produced by me and Miri Stone. It tells the story of a group of hikers from Sydney who stray into the territory of one of Australia's most feared legends: the bunyip. Some legends have teeth...
TREKKING THE ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT
2016
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"Trekking the Annapurna Circuit" was published by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2016 to widespread acclaim. It documents my six-week journey around one of the most popular treks in Nepal, in the wake of the 2015 earthquake. Nine multimedia stories, featuring text, stills and video, are situated on a navigable 3-D map.