WE ARE MAKING A FILM ABOUT MARK FISHER

A DIY, collective essay film made with 70 contributors, drifting through Mark Fisher’s ideas to ask what solidarity and cultural production can look like in the perma crisis of 2025 and 2026.

Synopsis

Made with no budget, no studio backing and no institutional permissions, We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher began on a park bench in Rochford, Essex, and grew into a collectively produced essay film by Close and Remote (Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter), supported by 70 people via an online call out. Across nine drifting chapters, the film travels hauntological terrain, from Felixstowe’s windblown beaches to the CCRU, from Capitalist Realism to The Vampire Castle, folding Fisher’s words into contemporaneous footage shot in London. It moves through political rupture and media noise, and deliberately projects beyond 2017 into the perma crisis of 2025 and 2026. This is not nostalgia. It is an evocation of failed promised futures, and a working group for collective dreaming, a reminder that DIY does not mean private, it means working together.

Details

Genre

Documentary

Run time

66 minutes

Language

English

Certificate

12A

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Sophie Mellor, Simon Poulter

Distributor

Close and Remote

Run window

20 Feb 2026 → 30 Apr 2026