Graeme Cole

BIOGRAPHY

Working with Super 8 and other consumer formats, Mr Cole infects the language of narrative-based genre movies with a corrosive, absurdist sensibility. Meta-narratives and open-source laboratory work expand and re-categorise the parameters of his cardboard and fog universe.

In 2013, after 10 years of independent production, Mr Cole became the first UK filmmaker to participate on the MFA program at Béla Tarr's film.factory in Sarajevo. In 2016, Mr Cole completed an artist residency at Kino Klub Split, supported by Arts Council England, where he established an itinerant absurdist filmmaking academy: Unfound Peoples Videotechnic.

In 2017, he was EMAP#EMARE artist-in-residence at Bandits-Mages, Bourges, also supported by Arts Council England. His first artist’s book, The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum, was published to coincide with a solo exhibition in Bourges, November 2018.

Following a further exhibition as part of Slow Film Festival (UK) in 2019, Mr Cole presented his first video lecture as part of the 2020 edition, relaunching Unfound Peoples Videotechnic in its present form as the ultimate source of cloud-based esoteric filmmaking knowledge.

Mr Cole participated in the Essay Film Studio of the Visual Narratives Laboratory at Łodz Film School, 2021-22. He is an occasional festival programmer, and has sat on several film prize juries. He works as senior writer at a creative agency.

FILMOGRAPHY / LINKS

Murmurs (2019) [72"/Colour/Stereo] - Info

The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum (2018) [28”/Colourized+b&w/Stereo] - Trailer

Amateri (2017) [20"/Colour/Stereo] - Trailer

Epizoda ? (2016) [38"/Colour/Stereo] - Trailer

A Flea Orchestra In Your Ear (2012) {15"/Colour/Stereo] - Trailer

It's Nick's Birthday (2009) [35"/Colour/Stereo] - Trailer