F I L M S

L I G H T G L Y P H S

Light Glyphs is an ongoing interview series in which I talk to filmmakers about poetry and to poets about film. The first collected volume was published by Broken Sleep Books and can be purchased HERE, it includes interviews with: John Ashbery, Guy Maddin, Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair, So Mayer, and many more. It is a project that explores the sparked intersection, dialogue and interruptive or porous exchange between light & language; what exists in the coupling - or permeable expressions of - film and poetry. 

The emphasis is on, but not limited to, avant-garde and experimental practices that challenge, confuse or transcend the binary that so often defines ekphrastic work: in which one medium responds to another, as though any one medium might be so easily contained. Light Glyphs encourages a more gleefully messy exploration into (or as) the questioning expansion of what film and poetry might be and, consequently,  in that generous flux, how they might interact and coalesce; this will be a conversation that - in some ideal of the journey’s direction - will subsume the presumed division of its speakers into the more unwieldy (and more interesting) polyphony of film-as-poetry-as-film, fanning out to recombine, and, gathering in variable threads, to fray across whatever might constitute its practice and reception.

F I L M W R I T I N G

‘Losing the Head to Find the Vision: Betrand Mandico’s Surrealism’ (forthcoming Anti-Worlds Blu-Ray release of After Blue)

‘Black Zero: Into the Underground of Home Viewing’ (Tangible Territory Journal, Issue 5, 2023)

Auto-Bio-Graphik: Misreading the Body in Jeff Keen’ ( Tangible Territory, Issue 2, 2021)

Meanwhale: On Andrew Kötting’s The Whalebone Box (extended edition included in the Anti-Worlds Blu-Ray release, and the special edition vinyl)

‘Poetry in motion (pictures)’ (Sight & Sound, Summer 2021)

Interview with New Creative (2020)

‘After Animal Drums’ (Hotel)

for Tyneside Cinema

[‘Reel Recommendations’ ALL]

Cinema is Dreaming I.

Cinema is Dreaming II.

Cinema is Dreaming III.

Cinema is Dreaming IV.

Cinema is Dreaming V.

Time Regained

Occult Albion

Collage Films

Dreams of Documentary

Vampyr

Trains & Cinema

Introducing Japanese Cinema

Cow

Lamb & The Lost Daughter