This essay builds on an on-going cinematic survey of the changing neoliberalization of UK university campuses, started in 2016 by the authors. Since then we have been filming the physical transformation that has been occurring in the lifecycle of many university campuses throughout the UK as part of a self-funded research film project entitled The Death and Life of UK Universities.6 (Figure 1) The Death and Life of UK Universities interrogates both the onsite and virtual representations of, for example, the ‘walk-through’ films of prospective university and residential architectures using Henri Lefebvre’s7 notions of space and Guy Debord’s8 writing on the spectacle as socially productive forces considering both material and medium arrangements and developing a textual reading to analyse the ideological ground of this spatial reconfiguration. Repositioning the real social and historic space of the university as a collage film works into and through the medium of architectural design and systems of codified representations that are understood to be excluding particular parts of the real space as a form of ideological specialization.