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Up all night reading poetry (2021)

Samiir Saunders – Watch with BSL

up all night, reading poetry is a collection of music videos/poetry films based on Samiir’s EP of the same name. The films, and the EP, present themselves as ‘spooky lofi hip-hop meets sleep-deprivation-induced spoken word ramblings’. 

Having consumed too much caffeine before bed, Samiir, our narrator and protagonist, navigates feelings of isolation, nostalgia, and dissociation, as he desperately tries to consolidate a sense of self, in order to finally get a wink of sleep.