Literature Archives

Monster (van Hollandabad)

Centering on figures such as Dutch consul and diplomat Albertus Paulus Hermanus Hotz (1855–1930), American heiress and traveler Josephine Powell (1919–2007), and renowned Dutch Orientalist

Being Blue

In 2023, Fowler embarked on a residency at Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist, filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994). Jarman moved

Afterthoughts of a Walk on the Naze

In the year of his death, my great-uncle, the artist Nigel Henderson, wrote a letter addressed to my future self. In his letter, he asked

MASCON: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy

Think of Mascon: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy as an audiovisual investigation into the gestures, geometries, grammars and geographies that compose the forms

4 ayes

A frolic through the foreafter “in the aye”; A tale told in four ayes The four-abend of the other ayes; An oculists nightmare; A random

3rd aye

The long-unawaited treacle-trequel of the “aye” heterology following the unfathomably suckercessfool prequel-equal-sequel, “i 2 aye” (over 40 awards at over 50 festivals in 1st 6

Pyramid Schemes

“Pyramid Schemes” is a powerful treatise on architecture in eleven chapters. Narrated by a computer-simulated voice, the video opens with the premise that “architecture is

To Be the Author of One’s Own Travels

Irish satirist, Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century novel, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is interpreted through a re-cut of a 1939 animation of the book, resulting in the 16

The Retreat

Exile as a space for transnational solidarity is explored through a discursive, community-oriented process of production centred around a retreat in the South of France.

To Keep the Mountain at Bay

An homage to Etel Adnan (1925-2021) the film invokes a queer and ghostly presence through the recitation of Adnan’s poetry in Sausalito, CA where she

Casting Kanchi

Casting Kanchi (2015) is a spatialised and expanded version of House of Women (2017) and a response to the casting of white actor Jean Simmons

Lagareh – The Last Born

Lagerah – The Last Born is a work anchored around theories of abolition, rebellion, ancestral knowledge and love. Shot on location in Scotland, London and

The Invisible Worm

The Invisible Worm is a funny / serious film with spontaneous moments of joy, physicality and thinking aloud. The subtext of the film is the

FugaFilm

“I had experienced a moment of genuine rapture, not from some idea of importance, but from a musty smell.” – Marcel Proust

A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)

Alfred Roch, member of the Palestinian National League, is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what

Themes: Literature