Nathan Geyer

Experimental sound design for moving image and live art.

A dubbing studio in low light. A grainy black-and-white film frame is projected on the far wall with burnt-in timecode reading 00:02:54:08. In front of it, a Pro Tools session fills a wide curved monitor, a Dolby Atmos panner sits on a second screen, and a mixing desk and monitor speakers surround the desk.
Mix session with Tom Haines at Brain Audio, London.
2026 the thought of the innermost being Sound design · dir. Jack Jeffreys · stereo and 5.1 sound · 10 min 27 sec
  • A dark fish market at night. A figure in overalls passes through blue-lit plastic strip curtains in a doorway, reflected in the wet floor; tools and red machinery are visible in a second lit doorway across the room.
  • Two faces overlaid and semi-transparent — one in profile with lowered eyes, one larger with eyes closed — layered over reflections of a street and a bright flare of light.
  • A smeared, degraded video image of a city under construction: scaffolded tower blocks under a grey sky, a dark curved form arcing across the frame, a blurred red mass at street level.
  • Three moon jellyfish drifting in dark water, pale blue and lit from within, with specks of debris suspended around them.
Stills from the thought of the innermost being.

Fish are nightly invaders of my sleep. Work consumes my dreams. Night gives way to another commute; adverts appear before me, their faces drawn tight. The day passes again, and at night, within the walls of my workplace, a fishmonger’s in London, dreams appear again, this time, a grief-stricken reverie, memories of my father.

The film’s title is inspired by Maurice Blanchot’s The Book to Come, which incited my exploration of whether images can capture anything sacred in a world of dispossession. A diaristic, psychogeographic journey through a city that metastasises uncontrollably before me, the film captures a form of alienation that supersedes and confounds the trajectory of grief. What is lost when all becomes gloss?

Jack Jeffreys, director

Screenings

  • October 2026
    BFI London Film Festival, London, UK — Experimenta
  • November 2026
    Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany

Credits

  • Director
    Jack Jeffreys
  • Producer
    Cici Peng
  • Sound design and music
    Nathan Geyer
  • Sound mix
    Robin Fellows
2026 Gut the Fish that Birthed You Sound design · dir. Nia Fekri · stereo and 5.1 sound · 23 min 45 sec

Video excerpt

On the electric eve of a political uprising, three chronically ill women catch a signal transmission in their sleep... a riot in breath and song bearing the fertile power of mourning.

Credits

  • Director
    Nia Fekri
  • Sound design and music
    Nathan Geyer
  • Sound mix and master
    Tom Haines, Brain Audio
2024 Rain, Rain, Go Away Sound design · dir. Ronan Mackenzie · stereo sound · 12 min 37 sec

Trailer

At home in the north of England, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind.

Screenings

  • October 2024
    IndieCork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
  • January 2025
    Nominated — Best British Short Film London Short Film Festival, London, UK
  • February 2025
    PUSH Festival: HOME, Manchester, UK
  • March 2025
    Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA
  • June 2025
    Nominated — Best Experimental Short Film IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Pernik, Bulgaria
  • October 2025
    LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • October 2025
    Kerry International Film Festival, Killarney, Ireland
  • August 2026
    Winner — Best Experimental Animation Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology, Portland, Oregon, USA

Credits

  • Director
    Ronan Mackenzie
  • Sound design and music
    Nathan Geyer
2026 Inside Devised with Julia Pilkington · live art installation with custom surround sound diffusion · 20 min
Describe what is in this image.

Taking place in a simulated hotel room, Inside is a live immersive experience for one audience member, exploring conspiracy, paranoia and sonic warfare.

Devised by Julia Pilkington and Nathan Geyer.

Supported by Arts Council England.

Presented at

  • December 2026
    BOLD Theatre, London — R&D presentation
2023 The Oracle Sound design · written and performed by Julia Pilkington · solo performance

Video excerpt

The Oracle is in crisis. Whatever she does – read tea leaves, read entrails, even read the newspaper – the results are the same. Something terrible is coming. And it’s not good for business.

A pseudo-mystical solo show about forecasts, signs of doom and denial in the face of catastrophe.

Presented at

  • March 2023
    Camden People’s Theatre, London, UK
  • June 2023
    Peckham Fringe, Theatre Peckham, London, UK

Credits

  • Written and performed by
    Julia Pilkington
  • Co-direction and lighting
    Luke Wintour
  • Sound design
    Nathan Geyer
  • Dramaturg
    Alex Rugman
Portrait of Nathan Geyer.

Nathan Geyer is a sound designer working with synthesised and recorded sound for artists’ moving image and live art, based in London. He is part of Rushlight, a research-led live art company with theatre-maker Julia Pilkington.

Recent sound design credits include Jack Jeffreys’ the thought of the innermost being (2026), which has been selected for festivals including BFI London Film Festival as part of Experimenta, and Kasseler Dokfest. He has worked on other films including Gut the Fish that Birthed You (dir. Nia Fekri, forthcoming) and Rain, Rain, Go Away (dir. Ronan Mackenzie, 2024), which screened at festivals including London Short Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology, where it received the award for Best Experimental Animation.

Contact

Email
nathangeyer@protonmail.com