We're making a film about Mark Fisher Premiere + Q&A
What does it mean to make a film about Mark Fisher in 2025? Screening and Q&A with Dr Judit Bodor
📍 12 Captain Cook Square (former TK Maxx store), Middlesbrough🗓 Friday 26th Sep | 5:30pm - 8pm
Free, donation
Part of Middlesbrough Art Week: IN ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
Screening and Q&A with Dr Judit Bodor
Graphic design: Joe Magee
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What does it mean to make a film about Mark Fisher in 2025?
This question is the starting point, of We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher, a new feature-length documentary exploring the legacy, ideas, and spectral presence of the late cultural theorist.
More than a biopic, the film is a dérive through the rewired landscapes of 21st-century Britain. Shot across England’s edgelands, from Thamesmead to Felixstowe, Fisher’s thought becomes both a map and a haunting.
Featuring Justin Hopper as 'Professor Parkins', a ghost-story character who stumbles through time from 1909 to 2025, the film invokes hauntology, BBC ghost stories, 90s rave, and the golden age of the NME. Voices drift, stories overlap, and locations recur in a documentary that avoids easy nostalgia and refuses finality.
Rather than rehearse Fisher’s biography, the film offers a meta-fictional meditation on his impact across music, aesthetics, politics, and digital culture, engaging with K-Punk, Acid Communism, capitalist realism, and the collapse of futurity.
Directed by Close and Remote (Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter) in collaboration with Justin Hopper, the film includes contributions from: Andy Beckett (The Guardian) // Tim Burrows (author of Place: East Anglian Landscapes)// Michael Valentine West, Farmer Glitch, and Cutout Joconde (original score)// Judit Bodor // Natalie Hyacinth // and many more.
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Close & Remote
Close & Remote are Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter, who frequently collaborate with artists such as Roney Fraser-Munroe and Jon Dovey. They have a national practice working with organisations including the Brigstow Institute, Cabot Institute, Cultural Engine, FACT, and others.
Their work spans film, performance, VR, drawing, and music, often focusing on climate change, culture, and overlooked or marginal spaces. Key projects include We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher (2025), Live Model (2024) – a performance game on Net Zero – and Orchard (2024), exploring the social and ecological role of green spaces.
From 2024 to 2025, they lead the Personal to the Planetary cohort, a group of artists and activists engaging deeply with the climate emergency. Their approach values co-creation, embraces uncertainty, and sees aesthetics as a vital force in shaping cultural conversations.
Dr Judit Bodor supports Close and Remote in the production, distribution and curation of the film.
Dr Judit Bodor (b. Hungary) is a curator, producer, and academic at the University of Dundee whose work explores curating as a generative field of practice and research. She has been collaborating with artists across Eastern Europe and the UK since the early 2000s to address marginalised histories in art and society through film, performance, and site-specific commissions as 'living archives'.Her recent co-curatorial work include Curating the Digital Attic: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists’ Archives, Holly Davey: A Script for An Archive: Women (curatinlivingarchives.net), Left Performance Histories (nGbK Berlin), Anya Lewin: More Than Stories (Gordian Projects), and Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art (National Museum Wales, Cardiff). Her writings on the histories of performance art, countercultural artist networks, artist archives, and changeability in contemporary art have been published in Occasional Papers, Brill, Taylor & Francis, and Routledge.In We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher
🔗 For more information about this year's programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com/screenings
Join our WhatsApp to receive the latest updates on MAW25.
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What does it mean to make a film about Mark Fisher in 2025? Screening and Q&A with Dr Judit Bodor
📍 12 Captain Cook Square (former TK Maxx store), Middlesbrough🗓 Friday 26th Sep | 5:30pm - 8pm
Free, donation
Part of Middlesbrough Art Week: IN ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
Screening and Q&A with Dr Judit Bodor
Graphic design: Joe Magee
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What does it mean to make a film about Mark Fisher in 2025?
This question is the starting point, of We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher, a new feature-length documentary exploring the legacy, ideas, and spectral presence of the late cultural theorist.
More than a biopic, the film is a dérive through the rewired landscapes of 21st-century Britain. Shot across England’s edgelands, from Thamesmead to Felixstowe, Fisher’s thought becomes both a map and a haunting.
Featuring Justin Hopper as 'Professor Parkins', a ghost-story character who stumbles through time from 1909 to 2025, the film invokes hauntology, BBC ghost stories, 90s rave, and the golden age of the NME. Voices drift, stories overlap, and locations recur in a documentary that avoids easy nostalgia and refuses finality.
Rather than rehearse Fisher’s biography, the film offers a meta-fictional meditation on his impact across music, aesthetics, politics, and digital culture, engaging with K-Punk, Acid Communism, capitalist realism, and the collapse of futurity.
Directed by Close and Remote (Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter) in collaboration with Justin Hopper, the film includes contributions from: Andy Beckett (The Guardian) // Tim Burrows (author of Place: East Anglian Landscapes)// Michael Valentine West, Farmer Glitch, and Cutout Joconde (original score)// Judit Bodor // Natalie Hyacinth // and many more.
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Close & Remote
Close & Remote are Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter, who frequently collaborate with artists such as Roney Fraser-Munroe and Jon Dovey. They have a national practice working with organisations including the Brigstow Institute, Cabot Institute, Cultural Engine, FACT, and others.
Their work spans film, performance, VR, drawing, and music, often focusing on climate change, culture, and overlooked or marginal spaces. Key projects include We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher (2025), Live Model (2024) – a performance game on Net Zero – and Orchard (2024), exploring the social and ecological role of green spaces.
From 2024 to 2025, they lead the Personal to the Planetary cohort, a group of artists and activists engaging deeply with the climate emergency. Their approach values co-creation, embraces uncertainty, and sees aesthetics as a vital force in shaping cultural conversations.
Dr Judit Bodor supports Close and Remote in the production, distribution and curation of the film.
Dr Judit Bodor (b. Hungary) is a curator, producer, and academic at the University of Dundee whose work explores curating as a generative field of practice and research. She has been collaborating with artists across Eastern Europe and the UK since the early 2000s to address marginalised histories in art and society through film, performance, and site-specific commissions as 'living archives'.Her recent co-curatorial work include Curating the Digital Attic: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists’ Archives, Holly Davey: A Script for An Archive: Women (curatinlivingarchives.net), Left Performance Histories (nGbK Berlin), Anya Lewin: More Than Stories (Gordian Projects), and Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art (National Museum Wales, Cardiff). Her writings on the histories of performance art, countercultural artist networks, artist archives, and changeability in contemporary art have been published in Occasional Papers, Brill, Taylor & Francis, and Routledge.In We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher
🔗 For more information about this year's programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com/screenings
Join our WhatsApp to receive the latest updates on MAW25.
👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/J7SH81T7Ls3EGH3Nzg026s