With an imagination that’s run wild all his life, Carl’s work embraces the macabre and the fantastic.

His award-winning short film The Witching Hour (2015), a horror fantasy exploring what happens when the clock strikes midnight, screened at over a dozen festivals including Sitges, Fantasia, Telluride Horror Show and Flickerfest, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize. 

His short film The Immortal (2020), featuring Academy Award nominee James Cromwell, is a scifi fantasy following a man who lives from the present day to the end of the universe. It played at festivals including Hollyshorts, Sci-Fi-London and the Philip K Dick Film Festival, where it won Best Science Fiction Short. 

His latest film, the scifi horror Sleep Talker (2021), has played at festivals including Screamfest, Telluride Horror Show, Nightstream, Lund Fantastic Film Festival, L'Étrange, and the Sydney Underground Film Festival, where it won both the audience award and Best Australian Short Film. 

Carl is an AFTRS Creative Fellow and a Screen Producers Australia One To Watch. His pilot script Multiverse, written with Sarah Emery, was shortlisted for the 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab. In addition, he has worked both on set and in post-production on the feature films Australia, The Great Gatsby, The Wolverine, Mad Max: Fury Road and Alien: Covenant.