About
Who you’d be working with
I’ve been a specialist operator of Jimmy Jib camera cranes and other hot-head equipment since the mid nineties. I’ve worked across every genre, format and environment I can think of — from sweltering exotic locations on feature films and TV drama, to minus thirty degrees for winter sports coverage.
I was a partner in the grip and tracking company Off Trax from the mid nineties, then set up Mike Drury Jibs in February 2012. I specialise in supplying and operating Jimmy Jibs, and I also work as an operator on Technocrane, Towercam and gyro-stabilised heads. Car-to-car filming and stunt work have been a regular part of it, and I can provide tracking vehicle, camera car jibbing and Russian Arm work alongside long-standing associates in the field.
Since 2012 I’ve been lucky enough to work with some very good crews on some very good productions. Five series of Call the Midwife for Neal Street Productions, including the final shot of the final episode. The opening shot of series one of Sex Education for Netflix. Feature films including People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan. And a fair amount of high-adrenaline tracking work on Amazon’s The Grand Tour and the BBC’s Top Gear.
Music is the other side of it, and one I enjoy enormously. I’ve operated Jimmy Jibs, hot heads, Towercams and Technocranes at a great many festivals and concerts, and there’s a particular energy to making music videos — ‘Cry Cry Cry’ for Coldplay, and more recently ‘Free To Love’ for Duran Duran ft. Nile Rodgers.
Based in London, working throughout the UK and internationally.