WRITER TALK: PHIL SMITH

In Albion's Eco-eerie: TV and Movies of the Haunted Generations Phil Smith takes us through a selection of weird films and TV shows and uncovers a wholly unexpected ecological and political message. Unlike most approaches to folk horror or hauntology, we are interested here in an alternative reading; one that attends to the unhuman characters, the materials and the edgeland spaces. A hobgoblinology. Albion's Eco-eerie invites us to side with the goblins and the exploited mutant hordes. It provides an essential guide for future living on a coming Planet B.

Dr. Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer and academic researcher, specialising in work around walking, site-specificity, mythogeographies, web-walking, somatics and counter-tourism.

Albion's Eco-eerie:

"'Albion's Eco-eerie' is a fantastic exploration into culture’s obsession with ‘the other’. Dissecting some of our most regarded folk horror creations, to present us with the political and theoretical heart that beats inside. How…