Films
Film is another strand of my practice — not separate from writing, but an extension of it into moving image, sound, and time.
My film-poems and trailers translate surrealist experiment into a cinematic form, layering text, image, and audio to create atmospheres rather than conventional narratives. Below are some examples:
Film-poems/ poem-films:
‘Days’ – This film poem was created during lockdown and features my poem ‘Stalker’ juxtaposed with the micro detail of lockdown life.
‘Whatever Happened to..?’ –
This film-poem, made during lockdown, features my poem ‘Whatever Happened to?’, combined with images of life during lockdown.
‘You Can’t Go to Venus on Fractions’ – This sound-poem – a first attempt – evokes the sound of existence on Venus.
‘threads unravel, binding us’ (Part 1) –Part 1 of a three part reading of my psychonanalytic erasure-reconstruction of Julio Cortazar’s short story, House Taken Over. I narrate the poem, accompanied by a montage of images created from my photographs turned into cubomania collages.
‘threads unravel, binding us’ (Part 2) – The second part of my long poem which erases-reassembles the text of the short story House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar – as a visual poem – on a search for the truth of the two characters’ psycho-sexual connections. Images are created from my images using the surrealist technique of triptography.
‘threads unravel, binding us’ (Part 3) – The final part of my psycho-sexual reassemblage of Julio Cortazar’s short story, House Taken Over. The key is flung down the sewer, retrieved and cast away again. What is learnt?
The Cinema Beneath the Lake — Publicity Material
Trailer – A short trailer-poem introducing the world of my debut novel, combining text fragments, imagery, and soundscape.
The Cinema Beneath the Lake: After the Séance – A reading from Chapter 1. After a first meeting with the Surrealists, Suzanne drinks on her balcony and holds forth about the world she occupies.
‘Spitting from the Balcony’ – A reading from Chapter 2 of The Cinema Beneath the Lake.
The Cinema Beneath the Lake : ‘A Parsemage of Dreams’ – A reading from Chapter 7, ‘Goat-Cry, Girl-Cry’, in which ‘The Stranger’ tells of her first encounter with the Méduse, the giant glass jellyfish cinema in the lake.
Collaborations:
Pandemiosis: a surrealist guide to the new condition – Made in September 2021 and generated by the surrealist ‘game of definitions’, this film taps into the absurdity of pandemic living, offering an account of the principal signs and symptoms of the human disorder-adaptation, Pandemiosis. In the spirit of surrealist investigation, it responds to the jargon of the pandemic; each definition having been produced by a different poet using their own curious surrealist methodologies. The poets are Steven J. Fowler, Patrick Cosgrove, Susie Campbell, Stephen Sunderland, Georgina Hughes, Simon Tyrrell, David Spittle and Vicki Kaye. Score was created by Molly Sunderland; editing and image curation by Stephen Sunderland.
Slow Mirror: a film-poem collaboration with David Spittle – made for The European Camarade at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Friday 1st October, 2021.
I Set the Tempo: a collaboration with Ailsa Holland – Made for the European Poetry Festival at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, Thursday May 11th, 2023.
A Manifesto of Zoorealism: a collaboration with Norwegian poet Thor Magnus Tangeras – Made for the European Poetry Festival at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, July 6th, 2024.
The Ski-Jump: a collaboration with Norwegian poet, Endre Ruset – Made for the European Poetry Festival at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, July 6th, 2025.
A Parallel History of Bones: Four Poems from Cosgrovia – A collaboration with four of the works from Patrick Cosgrove’s visual poetry collection, Cosgrovia, published by Steel Incisors and launched at the Bouda gallery, London, on Thursday 31st July 2025.