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/
FILMS INCLUDE:
Lowestoft ft Derive. A Town 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)
Puer to Senex is a psychogeographic film series documenting a solo van journey from London to Nordkapp, the northernmost point of Europe, and back. This screening presents the first episode: shot in the forests and lakesides of southern Sweden, manuscript fragments appear as captions over landscape footage, mapping an inner journey alongside a geographical one. The work applies Carl Jung’s framework of individuation — the passage from Puer Aeternus to Senex — to territory that is as much psychological as it is physical. Uncharted in every sense: a man alone on a road he has never travelled, looking for a self he hasn’t met yet.
Swansea Monologues Matthew Walters (UK)A selection of short monologues from people who live in Swansea Bay Area.
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)
What if uncharted territories are not remote places but unnoticed dimensions of thespaces we inhabit every day? This online lecture-performance explores the body as a cartographic instrument capable of revealing invisible urban geographies through touch, attention and minimal performative actions. Drawing on artistic projects centred on walking, guided tours and performative cartographies, the presentation proposes that territories are not simply discovered but produced through embodied experience. Combining critical reflection, documentation and short participatory actions, the session invites participants to rethink mapping as a performative practice, where the body creates alternative ways of perceiving and inhabiting familiar environments.
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.
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