The film is the first of several adaptations from the New York poet Bernadette Mayer’s book of poetic prose Utopia ( 1984), p ublished b y her own publishing house Artist Editions. This is chapter 4: About the arrangement of houses and buildings, birth, death, money, schools, dentists, birth control, labor, air, remedies, and so on.

Beatrice Gibson is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her experimental films explore the tension between chaos and control, drawing on cult figures from music and literature like Cornelius Cardew and Kathy Acker. Her works are participatory, featuring friends and influences from her community. In 2019, she held solo exhibitions at Camden Art Centre, Bergen Kunsthall, and Mercer Union. A two-time winner of Rotterdam's Tiger Award, she also received the 2015 Baloise Art Prize (Art Basel) and the 2019 Images Festival Award.

Available for online screening from 14 December