Nick Hillel is a film-maker, video artist and creative director of Yeast Culture, a company comprised of film-makers and digital media explorers based in London

I started making films in 1999 when I shot and directed two documentaries for UK terrestrial television (Naked Protest for Channel 4 and Global Protest for BBC 2). I worked in TV for a while after that but it soon became clear that television had very few spots for the out of the box documentaries I wanted to make and, with a friend, I set up an organisation called Yeast Culture which was designed as a space where art, documentary, film and music could meet.

Since then, and under the Yeast Culture banner, I have produced work across many different disciplines including documentary, drama, video installation, animation, dance, live VJing and touring exhibitions.

Recent film and installation projects have included collaborations with The Philharmonia Orchestra, Akram Khan, The British Council, The V & A, The BBC and Channel 4. Over the past 10 years I have also developed global touring visual shows and one off projection performances for artists including Nitin Sawhney Jamie Cullum, Courtney Pine, the Philharmonia orchestra Britten Synphonia, The Beastie Boys, and many others.

Today as a video artist I look for ways where the stage and the screen can feel united as one. This ties in closely with exploring ways to breakdown traditional documentary conventions and find new ways of experiencing film outside the cinema or the television screen.

For more information and examples of recent work visit www.yeastCulture.org