
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
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