← back into the yurt

off the Faery Yurt · through the cinema door · house lights down

Behind the Faery Yurt · through the cinema door

The Cinema

Velvet curtains, a silver screen, and every film I keep on a reel of its own.

Come in out of the yurt and sit anywhere you like. There is no programme and no time it starts: the films are on reels along the rails on the wall, in rows, and whichever one you take down goes up on the screen. The projector in the box at the back hums to itself and never flickers, the candles stand still, and nothing plays until you press it.

HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT IT?

Starts wherever your device says. In here MAX turns the reels on the projector; nothing else moves unless you ask it to, below, and the light from the box never flickers.

The Reels

Take a reel off the rail: press it and it goes up on the screen and plays. Every reel says how long the film runs before you press it. A whole channel or playlist says it runs until you stop it, and plays from the top with the rest to scroll through in the player; a live camera says it runs until you close it. Nothing plays until you press it, and taking it off leaves the screen dark again.

Every film, as reels on the rails

Philosophy

So far, lots of Deleuze and Guattari, and some Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Mark Fisher, plus lots of Robert Chapman!

  1. on YouTube: Deleuze Philosophy

  2. on YouTube: Quarantine Collective

  3. 22:54 · on YouTube, via Philosophize This!

  4. 23:38 · on YouTube, via Epoch Philosophy

  5. on YouTube: Acid Horizon

  6. on YouTube: DISPUK

  7. 16:34 · on YouTube, via Then & Now

  8. 25:09 · on YouTube, via Theory & Philosophy

  9. on YouTube: Buddies Without Organs

  10. 44:39 · on YouTube, via Dave Harris

  11. 3:57 · on YouTube, via advaya

  12. on YouTube: Philosophy Tube

  13. on YouTube: Absurd Being

  14. 45:15 · on YouTube, via Michael Sugrue

  15. 50:23 · on YouTube, via Victoria Trumbull

  16. 50:37 · on YouTube, via Chicago Humanities

  17. 26:53 · on YouTube, via Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy

  18. on YouTube: Absurd Being

  19. 12:38 · on YouTube, via Overthink Podcast

  20. 1:19:32 · on YouTube, via John Russon

  21. 22:24 · on YouTube, via Tao Ruspoli

  22. 46:14 · on YouTube, via MaMa Zagreb

  23. 57:46 · on YouTube, via Artists Space

  24. 55:16 · on YouTube, via Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

  25. 40:46 · on YouTube, via Acid Horizon

  26. 27:58 · on YouTube, via Epoch Philosophy

  27. 22:20 · on YouTube, via Epoch Philosophy

  28. 37:37 · on YouTube, via abcphilo

  29. 1:00:36 · on YouTube, via Acid Horizon

  30. on YouTube: Salvatore Marzolo

  31. 56:22 · on YouTube, via Blavatnik School of Government

  32. 51:39 · on YouTube, via Blavatnik School of Government

  33. 1:13:00 · on YouTube, via Lighthouse Bookshop

  34. 1:26:32 · on YouTube, via Philosophy and Medicine at KCL

  35. 48:40 · on YouTube, via Critical Theory

  36. 35:15 · on YouTube, via CompostCollective

  37. 37:59 · on YouTube, via Team Futurism

  38. 19:49 · on YouTube, via Death Panel Podcast

  39. 45:54 · on YouTube, via Josue Rodrigo

  40. 44:14 · on YouTube, via Google Play Books

Nature

  1. live · on YouTube, via Monterey Bay Aquarium

  2. live · on YouTube, via NamibiaCam

  3. 2:00:42 · on YouTube, via BBC Earth

  4. on YouTube: Darpan Majumdar

  5. 0:40 · on YouTube, via Cosmo Sheldrake

  6. on YouTube: Merlin Sheldrake

Cosmos

  1. on YouTube: liza lutz

  2. 53:55 · on YouTube, via NOVA PBS Official

  3. on YouTube: National Geographic

Weird stuff

  1. on YouTube: ContraPoints

Art

Rothko and Goldsworthy, whose work is still their own: films about it, mostly from the galleries that keep it.

  1. 5:55 · on YouTube, via Tate

  2. 17:26 · on YouTube, via Tate

  3. 5:37 · on YouTube, via The Museum of Modern Art

  4. 13:27 · on YouTube, via Rothko Chapel Official

  5. 27:48 · on YouTube, via Ensemble Intercontemporain

  6. 15:11 · on YouTube, via Great Art Explained

  7. 7:27 · on YouTube, via nationalgalleries

  8. 1:34:05 · on YouTube, via Free Movies By CONtv

Ma, Minimalism & the Void

The space between things, and the art of nothing much: Ma, minimalism, liminal spaces.

  1. 2:08 · on YouTube, via Carnegie Hall

  2. 10:54 · on YouTube, via Dans Le Gris

  3. 11:07 · on YouTube, via Dans Le Gris

  4. 4:49 · on YouTube, via Azumi Uchitani

  5. 4:37 · on YouTube, via The Art Assignment

  6. 1:51:59 · on YouTube, via National Gallery of Art Talks

  7. 21:12 · on YouTube, via Crescendex

  8. 16:54 · on YouTube, via Daniel Felix

Poetry

  1. 1:02:16 · on YouTube, via thepostarchive

  2. on YouTube: Thomas Gunter

  3. 26:02 · on YouTube, via tim24frames

  4. 55:39 · on YouTube, via vinyhilist

  5. 11:51 · on YouTube, via Zsuzsanna Uhlik

Relaxation

  1. 7:59:11 · on YouTube, via Nature Relaxation Films

  2. 2:56:32 · on YouTube, via Relaxation Ambient Music

  3. 11:11:11 · on YouTube, via Nature Relaxation Films

  4. 12:00:01 · on YouTube, via The Relaxed Guy

  5. 3:00:26 · on YouTube, via TheSilentWatcher

  6. 2:00:03 · on YouTube, via Cat Trumpet

  7. 27:51 · on YouTube, via Fairyland Cottage

  8. 1:11:11 · on YouTube, via Quiet Quest - Study Music

Films I Love

Trailers for films I love. The films themselves you may need to buy, rent or find somewhere else.

  1. 1:03 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  2. 1:55 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  3. 2:01 · on YouTube, via Arrow Video

  4. 1:22 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  5. 2:08 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  6. 1:24 · on YouTube, via StudiocanalUK

  7. 2:26 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  8. 1:54 · on YouTube, via Universal Pictures

  9. 1:42 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  10. 1:11 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  11. 2:30 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  12. 1:24 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

  13. 2:35 · on YouTube, via Disney UK

  14. 1:02 · on YouTube, via Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Things That Make Me Smile

  1. on YouTube: HBO

  2. on YouTube: Peep Show

  3. on YouTube: Paramount Plus

  4. on YouTube: Gilmore Girls

  5. on YouTube: Jeff Arcuri

Every reel read off its own page on YouTube on 2026-10-21, in the order I put them on the rails. A channel or playlist plays whatever is on it the day you press it.

The rest of the yurt, the lights, the gallery, the music and the books, is back through the cinema door.

Job marker — a ticket stub dropped under a seat

You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.

The job: A ticket under a seat

Quest code: STUB

Hand it in at the Adventurer’s Guild →