Curatorial Projects
Films That Fuck III: Super 8 1/2
Genesis Cinema, London, 26 May 2026
This iteration of the Films that Fuck screening series featured Bruce LaBruce’s second feature, Super 8 1/2 (1994).
Bruce LaBruce plays himself in this 1994 ‘cautionary bio-pic’ about a gay pornographic filmmaker who’s hit a rut. Stuck being too avant-garde for the porn industry and too sleazy for the arthouse cinema circuit, Bruce hasn’t been able to make himself the next Warhol until he runs across Googie, an up-and-coming porn director who promises to help him through exploiting him.
Blending elements of pornography, avant-garde cinema and documentary filmmaking into a series of films-within-a-film (and with a cameo by Vaginal Davis) the film blurs how all of these forms of moving image blur the lines between fiction and reality.
Super 8 1/2 | Bruce LaBruce | Canada | 1994 | 97’
Genesis Cinema, London, 26 May 2026
This iteration of the Films that Fuck screening series featured Bruce LaBruce’s second feature, Super 8 1/2 (1994).
Bruce LaBruce plays himself in this 1994 ‘cautionary bio-pic’ about a gay pornographic filmmaker who’s hit a rut. Stuck being too avant-garde for the porn industry and too sleazy for the arthouse cinema circuit, Bruce hasn’t been able to make himself the next Warhol until he runs across Googie, an up-and-coming porn director who promises to help him through exploiting him.
Blending elements of pornography, avant-garde cinema and documentary filmmaking into a series of films-within-a-film (and with a cameo by Vaginal Davis) the film blurs how all of these forms of moving image blur the lines between fiction and reality.
Super 8 1/2 | Bruce LaBruce | Canada | 1994 | 97’
Jack Scollard: Cruising Archaeology, The Pleasure Archive Research Centre
(assistant curator) Studio Voltaire, London, April-July 2026
Exploring the exhibition as a cruising ground, this project considered the connections between cruising and viewing art in a public space.
This was the first exhibition of Cruising Archaeology, an ongoing artistic project by Jack Scollard that involves a meticulous process of selecting and curating discarded objects collected from queer cruising sites.
First presented as an Instagram account and later as a book published by SMUT Press, Cruising Archaeology has documented hundreds of unique objects. Using methods taken from the field of archaeology, these items, often discarded or overlooked, are repositioned as relics of a subcultural sexual practice. By applying the rigour of archaeology to the ephemeral nature of the cruising ground, Scollard explores the tension between preservation and disappearance.
Cruising Archaeology: The Pleasure Archive Research Centrefunctions as a material analysis of queer lives and the spaces they inhabit. The exhibition considers how to present ephemeral histories, inviting visitors to treat the space as a critical cruising ground.
More information here.
Photos courtesy of the artist and Studio Voltaire. Installation photography: Tom Carter
(assistant curator) Studio Voltaire, London, April-July 2026
Exploring the exhibition as a cruising ground, this project considered the connections between cruising and viewing art in a public space.
This was the first exhibition of Cruising Archaeology, an ongoing artistic project by Jack Scollard that involves a meticulous process of selecting and curating discarded objects collected from queer cruising sites.
First presented as an Instagram account and later as a book published by SMUT Press, Cruising Archaeology has documented hundreds of unique objects. Using methods taken from the field of archaeology, these items, often discarded or overlooked, are repositioned as relics of a subcultural sexual practice. By applying the rigour of archaeology to the ephemeral nature of the cruising ground, Scollard explores the tension between preservation and disappearance.
Cruising Archaeology: The Pleasure Archive Research Centrefunctions as a material analysis of queer lives and the spaces they inhabit. The exhibition considers how to present ephemeral histories, inviting visitors to treat the space as a critical cruising ground.
More information here.
Photos courtesy of the artist and Studio Voltaire. Installation photography: Tom Carter
Open City Documentary Festival 2026: Expanded Realities
Open City Documentary Festival, London, 15-19 April 2026
The 2026 Expanded Realities exhibition, A Sense of Space, brought together projects which explore the relationship between our senses and the environments around us using a range of media including VR, audio, installation and video games.
Constantinopoliad and Peace of Mind make use of audio to untangle the ways in which the creative process is shaped by the people and events around us. Friends, lovers and family members become inspirations and collaborators, be it the poetry of Cavafy or a first cut of a song. Both projects make the case for the process of making art being porous, always evolving in response to the people and places in which it is taking place.
Alice Bucknell’s projects, Earth Engine and Ground Truthing, and Kris Hofmann’s Out of Nowhere explore how our rapidly-changing climate is shaping the ways in which we make sense of our environments. The works call attention to what we notice and how we notice it when interacting with the landscapes around us. Whether it is recreating memories of objects destroyed in a flood or the development of AI, satellite and digital modelling, these works ask us to consider if the transformations in our ecology may need us to transform how we understand our relationships with the planet.
More information can be found here.
Open City Documentary Festival, London, 15-19 April 2026
The 2026 Expanded Realities exhibition, A Sense of Space, brought together projects which explore the relationship between our senses and the environments around us using a range of media including VR, audio, installation and video games.
Constantinopoliad and Peace of Mind make use of audio to untangle the ways in which the creative process is shaped by the people and events around us. Friends, lovers and family members become inspirations and collaborators, be it the poetry of Cavafy or a first cut of a song. Both projects make the case for the process of making art being porous, always evolving in response to the people and places in which it is taking place.
Alice Bucknell’s projects, Earth Engine and Ground Truthing, and Kris Hofmann’s Out of Nowhere explore how our rapidly-changing climate is shaping the ways in which we make sense of our environments. The works call attention to what we notice and how we notice it when interacting with the landscapes around us. Whether it is recreating memories of objects destroyed in a flood or the development of AI, satellite and digital modelling, these works ask us to consider if the transformations in our ecology may need us to transform how we understand our relationships with the planet.
More information can be found here.
Life and Labour in Socialist Poland: Films from Enthusiasts: Archive
Open City Documentary Festival, London, 15 April 2026
Enthusiasts: Archive emerged from a series of exhibitions in 2004 as a collaboration between Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska. The artists carried out extensive research on moving image work created by amateur film clubs in Poland during the socialist period and in 2019 brought the works together into an accessible collection, placing them within the public domain.
This selection of films from Enthusiasts: Archive stretch across the socialist period and cover subjects including the country’s rapid post-war urbanisation, working life in these new cities and the emergence of dissent. A range of formal techniques are employed, including animation, live-action and chemical development. Whilst the influence of Polish film schools and studios in developing filmmakers, including from the Global South, has been the subject of recent academic discussion, these films are a testimony to the diverse amateur film cultures that existed in the country outside of the established industry.
More information here.
Open City Documentary Festival, London, 15 April 2026
Enthusiasts: Archive emerged from a series of exhibitions in 2004 as a collaboration between Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska. The artists carried out extensive research on moving image work created by amateur film clubs in Poland during the socialist period and in 2019 brought the works together into an accessible collection, placing them within the public domain.
This selection of films from Enthusiasts: Archive stretch across the socialist period and cover subjects including the country’s rapid post-war urbanisation, working life in these new cities and the emergence of dissent. A range of formal techniques are employed, including animation, live-action and chemical development. Whilst the influence of Polish film schools and studios in developing filmmakers, including from the Global South, has been the subject of recent academic discussion, these films are a testimony to the diverse amateur film cultures that existed in the country outside of the established industry.
More information here.
