Mike Cartmell Movies

Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial...

Video VIII of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory III (The Knowing)

Cartouche is the third part of an unfinished four-part series (Narratives of Egypt) by Cartmell. It’s an audio-visual tombstone for his friend...

Video I of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory II (The Writing)

Video V of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory II (The Writing) A tale of Cartmell’s friendship with...

Somehow in silence, I traveled home to here asleep, trying to think, to pull what I’d once felt out of the shadows. I had to make a leap into...

In verlan Ithaka is Kathaï. Just think about this for 2 secs. That's all I ask you... just 2 secs, you think about this.

Mmmm, that's sad

Hope I will see you again!

Video III of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory I (The Reading)

Video VII of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory I (The Reading)

First part of Carmell's Narratives of Egypt (1984-87).

Mike Cartmell builds a cottage for Susan and himself. At least, I think that's what it is about. I wonder... I'll watch it and come back to you.

Mike often introduced himself as a “filmmaker whose films nobody ever sees.” So... I didn't see this one. I can't write the movie...

Video IV of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory II (The Writing)

The second film of the series Narratives of Egypt (1984-87). In the form of the letter ‘X’ is a signature – a filmic equivalent of...