Contact: b.seymour AT gold.ac.uk
Dead the Ends (2017) was his first feature length film, one of a series of works exploring digital media in a phase of social crisis and austerity. These include:
Olympicfield (2009), and the collaborations Can Dialectics Break Gravity? (2014) and Bang! (2012) with Matthew Noel-Tod.
Recent works have dealt with the rise of the far-right and the shift to populist nationalism: I Am Sitting in a Zoom (2021); One Nation Under A Grave (2020) and The Game of Freedom (2023).
He has created soundtracks for Melanie Gilligan (Crisis in the Credit System 2008, The Common Sense 2014, Maija Timonen (Aune, 2012), and Anja Kirschner (Moderation, 2016).
As The London Particular (with David Panos) he wrote and made videos exploring the gentrification and cultural ‘regeneration’ of London in the early 2000s: The London Particular (2003) and The Occupation (2001).
His musical projects include Petit Mal, Antifamily, Snakes, and Traum, as well as the kpop video project 트Generation (with Soohyun Choi).
He is lecturer in Critical Studies on the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London, and an editor of Mute Magazine
Benedict Seymour’s films are held in the BFI archive
https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5a7a377e8e0
He also writes poetry, sometimes
