From the Vaults x Central Committee: We are Making a Film about Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Sunday 15 February 20265:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Advance £5.50 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Doors 5:30pm – Film start 6pm
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher is a film made between October 2024 and now using an instagram account. Over a year of research, social media conversations and creative collaboration, artists Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor set out to explore what it means to “manifest” a work using social media.
The Instagram account was both studio and meeting place and the project grew accordingly – through research, reading, posts and the gradual response to this. Out of this came an evolving community of artists, thinkers and fans of Fisher’s writing. In the year-long period, all of the parts of the film were made and several shoots took place, notably in Felixstowe and Thamesmead.
The story is built around ‘Professor Parkins’, a character played by Justin Hopper, who jumps out of an early 1900s ghost story into the present day and narrates what has happened, encountering Mark Fisher’s ideas and life.
The film moves through the key ideas that defined Mark Fisher’s thinking – hauntology, capitalist realism, the CCRU, K-punk, and the unfinished concept of ‘acid communism’. In the film we also meet people who knew or worked with Mark Fisher, including Jodi Dean and Andy Beckett.
For students and people coming fresh to Mark Fisher, we recommend his books ‘Capitalist Realism’ and ‘ Ghosts of My Life’. Fisher’s writing is intensely personal but reaches out to successive generations, because he is so good at describing the conditions of late stage capitalism.
At its core, the film project is “de-capitalised” – just a network of people making something together over a period of time. In this way it is a refusal of the market logic that Fisher critiqued, and an experiment in what collective creativity might look like in the 2020s.
The film ends in the room that it is screened in. We ask people to continue the discussion and take forward some of the ideas. The most important ones, that Mark Fisher talked about and enacted, are solidarity and kindness.
From the Vaults x Central Committee: We are Making a Film about Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Sunday 15 February 2026
The Muppets Take Manhattan + Kids Karaoke
Sunday 22 February 20262:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Adult £5.50 | Child £4.40 (Inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Family Film Screening followed by Kids Karaoke
Doors 2pm | Film start 2:30pm
Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it’s a more difficult task than they anticipated.
From the vaults is a new 6 month programme of documentary and feature films for adults and children. Made possible with support from Film Hub Midlands through funds from the National Lottery. Film Hub Midlands support people to watch, show, and make films in the Midlands.
The Muppets Take Manhattan + Kids Karaoke
Sunday 22 February 2026
Central Committee presents FLESHLICKER // DEAN LLOYD ROBINSON // PALE WORLD + Y GWACTER
Saturday 7 March 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance tickets: Waged £11 | Unwaged £7.70 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
The Committee is pleased to announce a carefully curated multi-sensory evening at The Tin Saturday, 7th March 2026.
- ‘Skin Hunger’ takes the visceral live performance art of Fleshlicker and reimagines it for the screen.
This recontextualisation gives the viewer a peek behind the curtain at the personal fascinations that lie at the heart of the project. Like in the live setting – behind the wide eyes, wry smiles and contorted limbs – motive and meaning remain unnervingly ambiguous. This examination makes no attempt at clarity. The projector will turn on and inevitably turn back off again, but there is no beginning and no end, just the present, smothering us endlessly into the night.
The film will be accompanied by a live performance of the score.
- ‘Piles Of Ash Are Left In Different Places’ is a short film by Dean Lloyd Robinson.
Using the prose and imagery from the 2024 xerox zine of the same name, the film uses a mixture of manipulated digital and analog footage, along with archival home movies, to explore the theme of grief, and how navigating the world feels after loss.
The film will be accompanied by live spoken word.
- Pale World’s harsh textural sound derives from Y Gwacter’s gestural painting on canvas. Each half of the duo directly influences the other in a live inter-disciplinary loop.
The performance documents itself as it unfolds.