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Writing: Collective Bargaining, Frieze 233 (March 2023)
Writing

Writing: Collective Bargaining, Frieze 233 (March 2023)

by: So MayerPosted on: February 22, 2023

A long essay on the history of UK film collectives and their relation to labour activism and other radical political […]

Writing: Disturbing Words is back!
Writing

Writing: Disturbing Words is back!

by: So MayerPosted on: February 10, 2023

My irregular tinyletter about language and culture is on the go again, starting up with a look at our current […]

Writing: Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin, pre-order for March 2023
Writing

Writing: Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin, pre-order for March 2023

by: So MayerPosted on: December 13, 2022

£13.99, shipping March 2023 Pre-order: Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin New from Silver Press, the first anthology collecting […]

Podcast: The Film We Can’t See, BBC Sounds
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Podcast: The Film We Can’t See, BBC Sounds

by: So MayerPosted on: September 2, 2022December 13, 2022

Six-part series exploring queer film, bodies in the archives, censorship and the imagination. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, 19-26 […]

Poem: ‘between songs 10’, Modron Magazine, 6 Oct 2022
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Poem: ‘between songs 10’, Modron Magazine, 6 Oct 2022

by: So MayerPosted on: October 12, 2022

Celebrating National Poetry Day with a brand-new poem in a brand-new magazine. MODRON (Welsh: mother) is a bilingual Welsh magazine […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

Recent Posts

  • Writing: Collective Bargaining, Frieze 233 (March 2023)
  • News: T.L.C (Trans-Led/Trans-Loved Cinema) Podcast is Live!
  • Writing: Disturbing Words is back!
  • News: TRUTH & DARE (Cipher, 2023), my debut short story collection
  • Writing: Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin, pre-order for March 2023

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