 He was educated at London University, where he co-directed a documentary on attitudes to homosexuality in the aftermath of the UK's Sexual Offences Act 1967, and at the Royal College of Art, where he made a series of experimental shorts.He further developed his cinematic skills whilst on a DAAD artist’s bursary in West Berlin, and his two Berlin films – along with a further UK-based film – looked at the relationship of sound and image and the nature of cinematic manipulation in the contexts of 70s Germany (East and West) and 70s Britain.Moving on, in 1978, to incorporate a more conventional narrative style, he made "Telling Tales", a film that centred on two couples with opposing interests in an industrial strike.