Psychogeography Film Night
Volcano Theatre, Swansea, SA1 1LG
Friday 18th September 2026
Psychogeography Film Night
The 5th World Congress of Psychogeography (5WCoP), the largest annual Congress exploring the perceptions and emotion of place, is coming Swansea to Volcano Theatre on Friday, September 18th to bring you a selection of psychogeographical films for their film night. This year's theme for the Congress is Uncharted Territory.
Join us for programme of short films, sonic lectures, and documentaries exploring the emotional landscapes of place and the ways in which wandering through landscapes,streets, and forgotten spaces can transform the way we feel, think, and relate to the world around us. To finish off the film night, Nightingale & Sage will host an evening of Psychogeography Karaoke in the bar of Volcano Theatre. Films start at 6:30pm with intermissions.
The bar will be open the whole night!You do not need to come to our Saturday Congress held at Urban HQ to come to the film night - anyone is welcome! Find out more here: https://5wcop.org/
Short films including:
Lowestoft ft Derive. A ToTown On The Edge - Steve Harrison (UK)
Lowestoft ft as a town of edges..Land/seamost easterly point in the UKWealth/deprivationfishing industrypost industrial declinecoastal erosionconcrete sea defencesOld vibrant beach village/current caravan parks and Birds Eye complex......
Sonic (online) lecture/performances include:
All American Ruins - Blake Pfeil (United States of America)
What can sound reveal about place that maps, photographs and historical records cannot? Blending immersive audio documentary, binaural field recordings, and live storytelling, multidisciplinary artist Blake Bfeil guides audiences through abandoned space across the United States. Focusing on a vacant Summer School in Topeka, Kansas - a site connected to the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education - the performance exploring listening as a form of psychogeographical navigation. Through the sonic reverie of fading transmissions, this program investigates how sound can uncover emotional, historical, cultural and even spiritual territories hidden beneath our visual landscape.
Documentary:
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher - Close and Remote (UK)
Join us for our feature film for its second showing at Volcano Theatre, following the films premier at Volcano Theatre two weeks ago - if you missed it, this is your chance! Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter, working as Close and Remote, developed the film between 2024-2025. Through instagram (@markfisherfilm), they enlisted the support of 70 collaborators. The film was made with no budget, no studio backing and no institutional permissions.The film explores solidarity, shared labour and digital connectivity. It enacts what Fisher insisted was still possible – decapitalised cultural production, collective agency among the ruins of neoliberal atomisation. A reminder that DIY doesn’t mean private – it means working together.In the film nine chapters drift across hauntological terrain – from Felixstowe’s windblown beaches to the CCRU’s delirial hyperstition lab; from K-punk’s midnight blog posts to the echoing chambers of The Vampire Castle; from viral slogans (‘it is easier to imagine the end of the world’) to streets filled with protest and grief. The film deliberately projects beyond 2017 into the Perma-Crisis of 2025/26.It navigates what Fisher said alongside contemporaneous footage shot by Close and Remote in London. Brexit. Thatcher’s death. The Dump Trump rally. Starmer’s ‘Island of Strangers’ – the phrase itself sounding like something K-punk might have quickly drawn into a post on how Labour abandoned the Left.The film is not nostalgia. Fisher warned against that. It is an evocation of failed promised futures. And in doing so, it becomes a kind of working group for collective dreaming – a counter to the doom scroll machine of capitalist realism. All about the people who connected in some way.Where others accelerated towards Mars and living forever (Musk et al), Fisher re-routed the signal through public pedagogy in K-punk and music, transforming these things into a readymade audience. His gift was in making complexity speak in plain language, not in simplifying it but in dignifying the reader – you can understand this. You’re not alone. The one person NME.Capitalist Realism now reads as a user’s manual for the political psychosis of post-Brexit Britain – precarity normalised, education hollowed out, a tech elite mimicking myth (Palantir). Yet in 2026, something stirs, a moment for action and solidarity. Not Saturday protest and work on Monday but the idea of a recombined force against Trash Populism. People are up for it. Refusing the misery feed and returning to action. Turning toward each other, asking new (old) questions.
Social and Karaoke
Psychogeography Karaoke - Nightingale & Sage (UK)
Were you Born Under A Wandering Star? Are you on the Road To Nowhere? Would you Walk 500 Miles? Come and sing your fave psychogeography songs. Solos, duets, group and community singing. Non-singers, the tuneless and off key are actively encouraged. Opt for the traditional words or adapt your lyrics. All musical styles welcome
The 5th World Congress of Psychogeography (5WCoP), the largest annual Congress exploring the perceptions and emotion of place, is coming Swansea to Volcano Theatre on Friday, September 18th to bring you a selection of psychogeographical films for their film night. This year's theme for the Congress is Uncharted Territory.
Join us for programme of short films, sonic lectures, and documentaries exploring the emotional landscapes of place and the ways in which wandering through landscapes,streets, and forgotten spaces can transform the way we feel, think, and relate to the world around us. To finish off the film night, Nightingale & Sage will host an evening of Psychogeography Karaoke in the bar of Volcano Theatre. Films start at 6:30pm with intermissions.
The bar will be open the whole night!You do not need to come to our Saturday Congress held at Urban HQ to come to the film night - anyone is welcome! Find out more here: https://5wcop.org/
Short films including:
Lowestoft ft Derive. A ToTown On The Edge - Steve Harrison (UK)
Lowestoft ft as a town of edges..Land/seamost easterly point in the UKWealth/deprivationfishing industrypost industrial declinecoastal erosionconcrete sea defencesOld vibrant beach village/current caravan parks and Birds Eye complex......
- Puer to Senex - Yoan Segot (France / UK)
- Swansea Monologues Matthew Walters (UK)
Sonic (online) lecture/performances include:
All American Ruins - Blake Pfeil (United States of America)
What can sound reveal about place that maps, photographs and historical records cannot? Blending immersive audio documentary, binaural field recordings, and live storytelling, multidisciplinary artist Blake Bfeil guides audiences through abandoned space across the United States. Focusing on a vacant Summer School in Topeka, Kansas - a site connected to the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education - the performance exploring listening as a form of psychogeographical navigation. Through the sonic reverie of fading transmissions, this program investigates how sound can uncover emotional, historical, cultural and even spiritual territories hidden beneath our visual landscape.
- Performing Uncharted Territories - Elia Torrecilla (Spain)
Documentary:
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher - Close and Remote (UK)
Join us for our feature film for its second showing at Volcano Theatre, following the films premier at Volcano Theatre two weeks ago - if you missed it, this is your chance! Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter, working as Close and Remote, developed the film between 2024-2025. Through instagram (@markfisherfilm), they enlisted the support of 70 collaborators. The film was made with no budget, no studio backing and no institutional permissions.The film explores solidarity, shared labour and digital connectivity. It enacts what Fisher insisted was still possible – decapitalised cultural production, collective agency among the ruins of neoliberal atomisation. A reminder that DIY doesn’t mean private – it means working together.In the film nine chapters drift across hauntological terrain – from Felixstowe’s windblown beaches to the CCRU’s delirial hyperstition lab; from K-punk’s midnight blog posts to the echoing chambers of The Vampire Castle; from viral slogans (‘it is easier to imagine the end of the world’) to streets filled with protest and grief. The film deliberately projects beyond 2017 into the Perma-Crisis of 2025/26.It navigates what Fisher said alongside contemporaneous footage shot by Close and Remote in London. Brexit. Thatcher’s death. The Dump Trump rally. Starmer’s ‘Island of Strangers’ – the phrase itself sounding like something K-punk might have quickly drawn into a post on how Labour abandoned the Left.The film is not nostalgia. Fisher warned against that. It is an evocation of failed promised futures. And in doing so, it becomes a kind of working group for collective dreaming – a counter to the doom scroll machine of capitalist realism. All about the people who connected in some way.Where others accelerated towards Mars and living forever (Musk et al), Fisher re-routed the signal through public pedagogy in K-punk and music, transforming these things into a readymade audience. His gift was in making complexity speak in plain language, not in simplifying it but in dignifying the reader – you can understand this. You’re not alone. The one person NME.Capitalist Realism now reads as a user’s manual for the political psychosis of post-Brexit Britain – precarity normalised, education hollowed out, a tech elite mimicking myth (Palantir). Yet in 2026, something stirs, a moment for action and solidarity. Not Saturday protest and work on Monday but the idea of a recombined force against Trash Populism. People are up for it. Refusing the misery feed and returning to action. Turning toward each other, asking new (old) questions.
Social and Karaoke
Psychogeography Karaoke - Nightingale & Sage (UK)
Were you Born Under A Wandering Star? Are you on the Road To Nowhere? Would you Walk 500 Miles? Come and sing your fave psychogeography songs. Solos, duets, group and community singing. Non-singers, the tuneless and off key are actively encouraged. Opt for the traditional words or adapt your lyrics. All musical styles welcome
