Event overview
Screening & Q&A w director Simon Poulter. Part of the MA Filmmaking masterclasses. All welcome. Seating: first come, first served w priority for MAFM.
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher (Close and Remote 2025, 65 minutes)
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A 65-minute cinematic experiment exploring the continuing relevance of the late theorist’s ideas on capitalism, culture, and the future. Mark Fisher was closely associated with Goldsmiths and continues to impact critical theory to this day.
Blending documentary, performance, and hauntological fiction, the film follows Parkins - a time-slipped character - through ghostly landscapes and digital spaces, tracing Fisher’s thought from the 1990s to our algorithmic present. Parkins, played by Justin Hopper, encounters key moments in Mark Fisher’s work and then travels to the present day ‘Perma Crisis’. The film optimistically imagines that we can be inspired by Mark Fisher’s work and devise a collective and recombined energy for the progressive left.
The film is not intended to be a biographical doc of Mark Fisher’s life, it is an exploration of his work and ideas and how they impact the present. It has been touring internationally.
Created collaboratively by over 70 artists through Instagram (@markfisherfilm), the film embodies Fisher’s call for collective imagination beyond capitalist realism. The film ends ‘in the room, with a discussion about agency and what we can do next…’
The entire process has been conducted on Instagram, including a DIY touring schedule.
Insta: @markfisherfilm
Dates & times
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| 26 Feb 2026 |
11:00am - 2:00pm Screening and Q&A. We will begin promptly at 11am with attendance taken for MAFM students. |
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