The Liberated Film Club: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson: Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
The Liberated Film Club is running twice monthly from July 2025 to July 2026. No film titles are announced in advance of the screenings but we feel sure writer Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's choice will not disappoint. For more information on the year-long season click here
Close-Up Cinema introduction:
Welcoming Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. Sleigh-Johnson’s book Code: Damp - An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms
(2024, Repeater Books) brings 1970s comic actor Leonard Rossiter into
communion with the Hierophantic mystical tradition, extruded through the
spagyric material and metaphor of damp. Here, the magnetic field of the
television image bids occult artefact and memory to coagulate one to
another. “I didn't get where I am today without recognising ‘promising
inroads’ when I see them,” she says, pace C.J. Her ongoing work is
distributed across spoken word, sonic environments, printmaking, props,
and local newspapers, and is written in periodicals including Darkside magazine, Faunus: The Journal of Arthur Machen Society, and The London Drinker. Recent projects include her curation of a special 'Code: Damp' Experimenta Mixtape series at the BFI. She lives in Southend-on-Sea.
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