One year of Mud.Cutters.
We didn’t start with a masterplan. Just a rough idea of what we wanted life to look like and the type of things we wanted to make. So we cracked on and figured it out as we went.
From Coast to Coast across Devon to Head to Head in Ireland we somehow pulled off some pretty mental projects in year one. A lot of miles, a lot of graft, and plenty of chaos along the way. Exactly how we like it.
Somewhere in the middle of all that we started to realise what mud.cutters actually is. Not just running. Not just films. Just building a life where discipline and disorder sit side by side.
This video is a bit of a time capsule of that first year. The miles, the missions, the people who jumped in and helped make it real.
Big love to everyone who’s been part of it so far.
The mates. The creatives. The brands backing it.
You know who you are.
Year one was discovery.
Year two… we push it further
#PIRATEPACE
𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐛 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓. 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.
Never seen anything like it. I still can’t quite put into words what we all walked into that weekend. From the insanity in the pits to watching Zac drag himself up a near vertical stone wall, there wasn’t a single second where my finger wasn’t itching to shoot. Dust in the teeth. Engines barking. Crowd roaring.
The festival is built on one simple idea: full throttle, straight to the top. People of every shape and size roll in from all corners of the world to take part in this beautiful, broken, beer soaked weekend. Bodies bend. Bikes break. Cans crack. It’s chaos, stitched together with adrenaline and Europop.
The pits are the festival’s heartbeat, the campgrounds where most people don’t surface until five minutes before their run. Anything goes. Burnouts that rattle your ribs. Mad Max speaker rigs screaming into the night. Screens flickering with pornos. It’s feral, loud, and completely unfiltered.
Try explaining that to someone back home. Try explaining that I was there for work. None of us expected what unfolded. Zac went and dropped the highest run of the weekend and walked away unscathed. Physically, at least. Visually, we’re still blinking the mud out of our eyes.
Big love to the crew, absolute bunch of legends who made the madness move.
📸 @_aspired_
𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐑𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐲: 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐀 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬.
A short freediving film made during a period where I needed to slow everything down. Shot entirely on a single breath, this project became a way to reconnect with the process of filmmaking and let go of outcome, pressure, and expectation. It’s as much about finding calm under pressure as it is about the ocean itself.
Filmed in Raja Ampat, West Papua. A place that takes nearly two days to reach from mainland Bali through flights, ferries, and long boat journeys. Remote, stripped back, and home to some of the richest marine biodiversity on the planet.
Huge thanks to Kirill and @freedivenusa for building the trip and making the experience possible.
Featuring freedivers:
@popcorin@fatihsvk@behiyebicer@kir.mulai@baltazar_gadda@dariam_25@mikesteegmans
Andrey Mustafin
@ramblinalena
Anna Lebedeva
Vsevolod Maznev
Shot: Toby Jones
Edit: Toby Jones / @sivssivssivs
Grade House : @no8ldn
Grader : @jonnytully
Grade Producer : @ollieireland
Sound Agency : @inhandlondon
Sound Designer : @will_nrth
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟.
I'd been deep in the London cycle for years, chasing jobs, pitching constantly, comparing my work to others, and quietly losing confidence in what I was making. It got to a point where l'd sometimes avoid posting work altogether, worried it didn't stack up.
Spending time in Indonesia and making this film shifted that. Freediving forced me to slow everything down and focus on the process rather than the outcome. No brief, no expectations, just committing to each moment and seeing what came back up.
Raja Rhapsody became the catalyst I didn't know I needed. It helped me reconnect with why I make films in the first place and reminded me that enjoying the process matters more than chasing the next thing.
Film drops 06.01.26.
𝐀 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡.
Raja Rhapsody: Peace in Pressure was filmed entirely while freediving, capturing both the surface and underwater moments on my own breath. It’s the proudest piece of work I’ve made. Created purely from instinct, with no brief, no budget, and no expectations attached.
It came from time spent in the ocean and trusting a slower, quieter process. I’m proud that my strongest work so far was made underwater, and I hope it gives a small insight into where I want my work to head next.
More from the film soon.
