Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter’s film We Are Making a Film about Mark Fisher (2024–5) addresses the influential late English music critic and cultural theorist. Join us at the IMA for its Australian premiere.

Alongside Sadie Plant and Nick Land, Fisher was a founding member the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, the notorious interdisciplinary collective at England’s Warwick University in the late 1990s associated with the rise of accelerationism. Fisher wrote Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), arguing that it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures (2014), and The Weird and the Eerie (2017). An early critic of cancel culture, he wrote the controversial essay ‘Exiting the Vampire Castle’ (2013). Suffering from depression, he died by suicide in 2017. Many of his writings have been published posthumously. Fisher was a founder of the publishing imprint Zero Books, now stocked by the IMA Gallery Shop—including key titles by Fisher.

Working under the moniker Close and Remote, Mellor and Poulter enlisted the support of seventy people to make We Are Making a Film about Mark Fisher, with no budget, no studio backing, and no institutional permissions. It explores solidarity, shared labour, and digital connectivity, exemplifying what Fisher insisted was still possible—decapitalised cultural production and collective agency—amongst the ruins of neo-liberal atomisation. 65min.

Spaces are limited. Booking recommended.