We're making a film about Mark Fisher Premiere + Q&A
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We're making a film about Mark Fisher Premiere + Q&A

What does it mean to make a film about Mark Fisher in 2025?

By Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

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The Auxiliary

31 Station Street Middlesbrough TS1 1SR United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

📍 The Auxiliary Bar, Middlesbrough🗓 Friday 26th Sep | 5:30pm - 8pm

Free, donation

Part of Middlesbrough Art Week: IN ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

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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)✦ Laura Grace Ford, Judit Bodor, Natalie Hyacinth, and many more.

🔗 For more information about this year's programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com

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Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

Middlesbrough Art Week 2025, the North East’s leading contemporary art festival, returns for its eighth edition with an ambitious program of artist and community exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks, and public interventions happening across the town from September 25th to October 4th.

Middlesbrough Art Week is built on collaboration, support, and the nurturing of creative practices. This year, it weaves together diverse artistic voices and community perspectives into a collective expression of solidarity. Under the evocative theme In All Possible Worlds, the festival dares to imagine a future shaped by creativity, resilience, and hope. MAW25 embraces this uncertainty, offering a space where we see and feel through one another’s eyes. By providing space for mutual support and creative nourishment, the festival becomes a platform for new ideas, new perspectives, and the possibility of new worlds, In All Possible Worlds.

Middlesbrough Art Week was born in 2017 as an artist-led festival powered by The Auxiliary Project Space, a small growing team of artists, curators and coordinators, and fueled by wide reaching partnerships. MAW supports artist ecologies in the North East, connecting artistic practice and ideas with like-minded peers nationally and internationally, and is committed to practice and not just preach principles of fair work and social justice.

www.middlesbroughartweek.com

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Twitter: @MAW_weekender

FreeSep 26 · 5:30 PM GMT+1