Jon Dovey

Collard Hill, on the Polden Hills in Somerset, is a publicly accessible location where the Large Blue butterfly has been successfully reintroduced. Over a series of visits, the filmmakers acquainted themselves with this idyllic place, taking time to understand just how much conservation and human intervention is needed to reintroduce a butterfly.

A cinematic experiment exploring the continuing relevance of the late theorist’s ideas on capitalism, culture, and the future. Blending documentary, performance, and hauntological fiction, the film follows Parkins — a time-slipped character — through ghostly landscapes and digital spaces, tracing Fisher’s thought from the 1990s to our algorithmic present.

Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1987-8 and then again in 2007-8. The re-enactment of the journey is a memory work, a re-enactment of the past in the present through the process of filming. But the return journey is haunted by the voices of two dead friends that dominate the soundscape of the 'archive' footage.