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

Writing: Born into Armistice: Margaret Tait’s Pacific Cinema
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Writing: Born into Armistice: Margaret Tait’s Pacific Cinema

by: So MayerPosted on: November 11, 2019November 13, 2022

This talk was originally given on Armistice Day 2018, the 100th anniversary of Margaret Tait’s birth, to introduce a screening […]

Writing: Ways of Seeing, On Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
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Writing: Ways of Seeing, On Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours

by: So MayerPosted on: September 13, 2013November 13, 2022

This essay first appeared in Sight & Sound, 23.9 (September 2013). * Over the end credits of Jem Cohen’s latest […]

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Disturbing Words: waste

by: So MayerPosted on: June 16, 2017June 21, 2024

Originally published on tinyletter 16 June 2017. ‘More than a handful is a waste.’ True story: this is an actual […]

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