The Liberated Film Club: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson

Welcoming Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. Sleigh-Johnson’s book Code: Damp - An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms (2024, Repeater Books) brings 1970s comic actor Leonard Rossiter into communion with the Hierophantic mystical tradition, extruded through the spagyric material and metaphor of damp. Here, the magnetic field of the television image bids occult artefact and memory to coagulate one to another. “I didn't get where I am today without recognising ‘promising inroads’ when I see them,” she says, pace C.J. Her ongoing work is distributed across spoken word, sonic environments, printmaking, props, and local newspapers, and is written in periodicals including Darkside magazine, Faunus: The Journal of Arthur Machen Society, and The London Drinker. Recent projects include her curation of a special 'Code: Damp' Experimenta Mixtape series at the BFI. She lives in Southend-on-Sea.

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The Liberated Film Club will run twice monthly from July 2025 to July 2026. No film titles are announced in advance of the screenings. For more information on the yearlong season click here