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Talk: How to Raise a Film, Folkestone Documentary Festival, Friday 21 Oct
Events

Talk: How to Raise a Film, Folkestone Documentary Festival, Friday 21 Oct

by: So MayerPosted on: September 16, 2022

Friday 21 Oct, 2pm, Quarterhouse, Folkestone. Register for tickets. Since 2015, grassroots organisation Raising Films has been a campaign and community […]

News: Keep Club Des Femmes’ Archive Alive: Crowdfunding Now
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News: Keep Club Des Femmes’ Archive Alive: Crowdfunding Now

by: So MayerPosted on: September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

I’m so proud of the incredible writing contributed to Club Des Femmes‘ Culture Club over the last three years – […]

Film: Mädchen in Uniform, Rio Cinema, 25 Sept 2022
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Film: Mädchen in Uniform, Rio Cinema, 25 Sept 2022

by: So MayerPosted on: September 2, 2022September 26, 2022

Catch up with the slides from my intro to the film, THE SOUND OF SPIT! SHE LOVES ME! It’s our […]

Essay: Hasta que lo Esencial sea Visible, Open City Documentary Festival
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Essay: Hasta que lo Esencial sea Visible, Open City Documentary Festival

by: So MayerPosted on: September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

So Mayer reflects on Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) (dir. Dora García) as part a series of […]

Panel: The Power of the Bookseller, 30 Sept, online
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Panel: The Power of the Bookseller, 30 Sept, online

by: So MayerPosted on: September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

Book now As part of International Translation Day, a conversation featuring booksellers and translators, exploring the vital, often hidden role […]

Essay: Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with The Books of Jacob, Hythe Digital Poetics 3.7
Writing

Essay: Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with The Books of Jacob, Hythe Digital Poetics 3.7

by: So MayerPosted on: May 20, 2022September 3, 2022

There is no spoon Olga Tokarczuk’s 1000-page opus Księgi Jakubowe was originally published in Polish in 2014, winning the Nike […]

Dick Johnson is Dead: Falling Angels, Criterion
Writing

Dick Johnson is Dead: Falling Angels, Criterion

by: So MayerPosted on: January 25, 2022September 3, 2022

Dick Johnson Is Dead is a film about falling. It could have been a film about failing, in that its […]

Essay: Keeping Watch: On the Re-release of Europa (1931), Frieze
Writing

Essay: Keeping Watch: On the Re-release of Europa (1931), Frieze

by: So MayerPosted on: January 22, 2022September 3, 2022

In 1940, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s celebrated experimental anti-fascist film poem, Europa (1931), was looted by the Nazis from the […]

Essays & Poems 2021
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Essays & Poems 2021

by: So MayerPosted on: January 1, 2022November 13, 2022

Essays, interviews and poems available online, published in 2021. For offline publications, follow the links on Anthologies & Magazines. ‘Missed Hands‘, […]

Writing: “Aliens Like Me”, DVD essay on Friendship’s Death
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Writing: “Aliens Like Me”, DVD essay on Friendship’s Death

by: So MayerPosted on: July 22, 2023July 22, 2023

‘Aliens Like Me’ When I am killed You will find in my pockets Travel tickets To peace To the fields […]

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