 Hipkins began making experimental short films in 2010.In 2014, his first feature film "Erewhon" - based on Samuel Butler’s 1872 novel "Erewhon, Or Over the Range" - premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival and the Edinburgh Art Festival.Hipkins' recent film work, "New Age" (2016), is set at Avebury and calls on the tradition of spirit photography.