Mute Outtakes takes a short piece of film discovered on the DVD extras of the modernist writer BS Johnson’s infamous short film ‘Fat Man on a Beach’ (1973) as a starting point for a new work. The outtake shows Johnson talking directly to the camera; the sound however has been lost and this acts as a departure point for my video. The absence of the authors voice is a locus for the video that collages field recordings, found footage, animated photocopies, studies of graphology and music to explore materiality and loss. The video traverses this sense of the absent voice as an investigation into the frictions between sound and image, through speculation, association, hallucination and misinterpretation