Artist of the week 114: Matt Stokes

Meet a maker of lyrical films focusing on the extremes of musical fandom – from northern soul obsessives to ravers in cavesMusical communities are infiltrated as well as celebrated in Matt Stokes's art. Classical music and black metal rank among the alternative enthusiasms-cum-ways of life he has explored. Stokes's projects often culminate in short, lyrical films. Shot in lush 16mm tones, these have included a northern soul night where skirts balloon as dancers seem to spin on air, and another...

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