Matt Stokes Wins Beck’s Futures Prize

“Stokes’ winning entry, Long After Tonight, is a seven-minute recording of a group of ‘soulies’ – members of the Northern Soul music phenomena in the Sixties and Seventies – collecting obscure North American soul music, and meeting in venues across the north of England. They are shown dancing hypnotically to a soundtrack as the camera occasionally cuts to ornate religious iconography in a Gothic revivalist church in Dundee.”