“I tend to begin by constructing a concept so high I get giddy and fall off it. What I see on the way down is the song, film, or story”
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Recent films include:
Civil War (2025), Boom, labubu! (2025) In Lovely Blue (2022), I am sitting in a Zoom (2021); One Nation Under A Grave (2020) and The Game of Freedom (2019-).
Dead The Ends (2017) was my first feature length film, and like others in the 2010s explored the crisis of social reproduction post-2008.
A trio of films anticipated DTE in different ways:
Olympicfield (2009), Can Dialectics Break Gravity? (2014) and (my script for) Matthew Noel-Tod’s film Bang! (2012)
I created soundtracks for Melanie Gilligan (Crisis in the Credit System 2008, The Common Sense 2014), Maija Timonen (Aune, 2012), and Anja Kirschner (a Petit Mal song features in Moderation, 2016).
As The London Particular (with David Panos) I made videos exploring the gentrification and cultural ‘regeneration’ of London in the early 2000s: The London Particular (2003) and The Occupation (2001)
Musical projects include Petit Mal, Antifamily, Snakes, and Traum, as well as the kpop video project 트Generation (with Soohyun Choi) and music/videos like Boom, Labubu!
I am lecturer in Critical Studies on the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London and was depuy editor and later co-editor of Mute Magazine
Benedict Seymour’s films are held in the BFI archive