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Andrew Burke

@aaburke.bsky.social
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Mostly posts about film and television, architecture and design, music and photography. Professor. Dept. of English, U of Winnipeg. he/him.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Montreal friends! The new set of 5 postcards is ready to go for the launch of SCRAPBOOK: FROM THE ARCHIVES OF DAVE BARBER on Mon, Apr 13 at @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social from 5-7pm. The featured postcard is Dave's famed 1978 letter to the editor, "Leave bacon alone"!
a postcard featuring a 1978 clipping of a letter to the editor that Winnipeg Film Group programmer Dave Barber wrote titled "Leave bacon alone."A hand holding up the set of five postcards. The only one fully visible features the cover of the book, which has a picture of Dave Barber and the title Scrapbook: From the Archives of Dave Barber.
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Cinémathèque québécoise @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🍸 5 à 7 du Winnipeg Film Group, le 13 avril à 17h dans notre café-bar! Lancement du livre "Scrapbook: From the Archives of Dave Barber", en présence des co-éditeurs Clint Enns et @aaburke.bsky.social ainsi que de Leslie Supnet, directrice du WFG!
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Pulp Covers @pulpcovers.com · 21/01/2026
The Shayne Dame These Ruthless Men Had A Hollywood Starlet At Their Mercy! via pulpcovers.com/the-shayne-d... Covers, Carried Away, Painting, Paperback, Roger Owns, Steve Harragan
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Since travel to the US is out of the question these days, I do hope that there will be a catalogue of this exhibit at the Poster House. posterhouse.org/exhibition/d...
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Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works | Poster House
Native designers are not often shown as authors of their own ideas or images, controlling neither how and when their stories are depicted, nor through what channels and mediums. Instead…
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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Cover of Svensk Bilprovning "Weak Points of Cars 1978" with the title set against a red background.
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The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com · 05/01/2026
Maigret cover with photos by Chris Marker (director of Sans Soleil)
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’ve found all the Safdie films super tedious, but giving Kevin O’Leary any screen time seems particularly reprehensible.
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars! utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
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Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 2
From award-winning amateur filmmakers to leading Canada’s busiest commercial film company by the mid-twentieth century, F.R. “Budge” Crawley and his wife Judith were responsible for an eclectic body of work. Yet tourism promotion films remained a ...
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A new adventure In which I touch on my thoughts about a follow-up to Magic Rays of Light, on the notion of "useful television", and on a pioneering application of television in an operating theatre at Guy's Hospital in 1949. Click here to read: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/a-new-advent...
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A new adventure - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: With Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain still with the printers, and on course for publication by Bloomsbury on 8 January, my thoughts have turned to new ...
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This weekend was filled with all kinds of nonsense and bother, but I did manage to make this fake 70s educational film featuring my cats.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Joining the Bong squad
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Vincent Gasparro needs to resign. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/ontario/cbsa...
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CBSA, PMO say they were not involved in MP announcing ban on Belfast band Kneecap
OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency and the Prime Minister's Office say they were not involved in an Ontario Liberal MP's announcement that members of the Belfast band Kneecap
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I really like the new K-Lone LP: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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K-LONE: sorry i thought you were someone else
Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I want to read a history of Duralex. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
The brand, which evokes nostalgia and pride, hit its €5m fundraising target within hours and orders have soared
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We love a good #amateurcinema story! "Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?” via @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?
Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time and at the forefront of a transformative period in Irish society
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The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com · 17/11/2025
Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My book came out in 2019, so I am sure I will be fine. 😬
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is such a great film. Highly recommend.
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Now available online! A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide! Available in print in early 2026. academic.oup.com/book/61621
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The WAC campaign to date More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong. cstonline.net/defending-th...
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Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New Order released Movement on this day in 1981. Peter Saville's beautiful cover was based on Fortunato Depero's Futurismo design from 1932
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This new Lynne Sachs picture sounds like my kind of film. festival.idfa.nl/en/film/50b2...
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Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2025) | IDFA Festival
Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs has collected 600 business cards—from a hairdresser, a therapist, a textile artist. Together they form an archive of encounters. The title of this imaginative e...
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Not sure why the IDFA in Amsterdam is showing a late 1970s NFB film on government bureaucracy, but I love that they are: festival.idfa.nl/en/compositi...
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Paperland: The Bureacrat Observed & Fellow Citizen | IDFA Festival
During this screening, the film Paperland: The Bureacrat Observed will be followed by Fellow Citizen.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This is the stupidest and most embarrassing way to phrase this. Universities really just want to be sports owners or something now, boarding about signings and transfers. www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
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New constellation of academic stars headed to U of T
In a “big win for Canada,” the University of Toronto is further strengthening its academic ranks with three top researchers from U.S. universities whose work ranges from the search for new planets to ...
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Toronto friends! Mark your calendars for this TIFF Lightbox screening on December 3rd of some magical films from the Winnipeg Film Group: tiff.net/events/heart...
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Heart of the World: 50 years of the Winnipeg Film Group
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Montreal friends! If you want to experience some of Winnipeg's madness, you must not miss Daniel Barrow's WINNIPEG BABYSITTER! en.dazibao.art/session-40-d...
A selection of stills from 80s Winnipeg public access cable tv. These programmes form part of Barrow's epic work WINNIPEG BABYSITTER.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Great writing in here, esp from William Prince and Bob Stanley. I am a Neil conventionalist, I suppose, cause I would go with “After the Gold Rush.”
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 10/11/2025
not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I never realized that the cover of Sloan's Navy Blues was based on a Polish film poster from 1959: posteritati.com/poster/35428...
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Night Train Original 1959 Polish A0 Movie Poster
Original 1959 Polish A0 poster by Wojciech Zamecznik for the film Night Train (Pociag) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz with Lucyna Winnicka / Leon Niemczyk / Teresa Szmigielowna / Zbigniew Cybulski.
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
WAC wrong-headedness (that's the BBC Written Archives Centre) I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
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WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
TONIGHT! A YEAR IN A FIELD screens at Winnipeg's Dave Barber Cinematheque at 5:15pm as part of the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival. See the trailer below: youtu.be/37-oipXz2WE?...
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A YEAR IN A FIELD - Teaser
YouTube video by Spectacular Optical
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Being John Smith available this week via Le Cinéma Club: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
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BEING JOHN SMITH a film by JOHN SMITH.
A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I just watched Undercurrent and loved it. This Lincoln Center season of films by Kōzaburō Yoshimura looks so good. www.filmlinc.org/daily/flc-an...
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FLC Announces “Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion,” a Retrospective of Overlooked Filmmaker from the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema, December 5–11
Film at Lincoln Center announces “Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion,” a retrospective of 13 films by one of the most accomplished yet underappreciated figures of the golden age of Japanese cinema.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
the budget, in all its emphasis on (and funds for) recruiting assistant professors internationally, seems completely oblivious to the fact that there are any number of candidates domestically who are as strong as anyone else. it is an interesting kind of national self-loathing.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Reading up on the Listers and Letterboxd controversy, which invites all kinds of questions about the drive for cinematic big years, the desire for lifers, what counts as a film, the politics of platform moderation, and a whole bunch of other things.
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Mark Slutsky @slutsky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Wow I never knew the original subtitle
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The BBC Archives have uploaded Ken Russell's The Lonely Shore, which he made for Monitor in 1962, to YouTube. I have always wanted to teach it alongside Marker's La Jetée, since they are nearly contemporaneous and complement each other in intriguing ways: youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
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1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
An incredible clip. youtu.be/0qvtAVvfAGU?...
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Françoise Hardy - Je changerais d'avis (Tilt Magazine - Diffusion 01/01/1966)
YouTube video by FrancoiseHardyVEVO
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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The power of synchronicity when doing research. I randomly purchased the April 1952 "Popular Photography" from eBay for a project where I'm tracking the number of companies that were selling commercial films to the home market. This issue is not digitized as far as I can tell.
Page forty form the April 1952 "Popular Photography." Includes two photographs showing David Bradley filming with a Bole camera and a shot from his amateur movie "Peer Gynt." The article's title and subtitle are "An Amateur Crashes Hollywood: David Bradley started making 16-mm film stories in prep school. Now he's a full-fledged director for the world's largest studio." The article is by Will Lane. The caption next to the image from "Peer Gynt" reads "Success came to David Bradley (left) after much hard work, many setbacks - as believers in the Horatio Alger legend knew it would. Bradley, at 11, borrowed a 16mm camera, shot 100 feet of film, put on a show for neighbor kids in Winnetka, Illinois. It was a flop. But he persisted, and at 15, filmed Treasure Island; at 17, Emperor Jones and A Christmas Carol, then a full-length Oliver Twist—all with a faithful old $45 obsolescent camera. Then he bought newer equipment and produced Peer Gynt (see still above)."
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Watched the Barney Miller episode with Kenneth Tigar in it last night and since learned that he is a translator (Brecht, Wedekind) as well. www.imdb.com/name/nm08630...
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Kenneth Tigar | Actor, Soundtrack
Known for: The Avengers, Lethal Weapon 3, Creator
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Mr Keyes, I’m a Medford man, Medford,Oregon. Up in Medford we take our time making up our minds.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I do like the new Cate Le Bon, but do I sound old if I admit that Cyrk remains my absolute favourite? www.newyorker.com/culture/pop-...
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The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon
The Welsh musician’s latest album, “Michelangelo Dying,” offers strange solace in chaotic times.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Super excited to see Rose of Nevada. Not sure if anyone picked it up for distribution in Canada, but I am hoping that Mongrel or Films We Like might have grabbed it. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Rose of Nevada review: Tide travel
Vividly shot on 16mm, Mark Jenkin’s film about two Cornish fishermen who return from sea to find they have slipped 30 years in the past is a tale of the fantastic, but it’s rooted in the bleak politic...
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I do highly recommend Hlynur Pálmason's NEST, which is up for free at Le Cinéma Club this week: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
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NEST
NEST a film by HLYNUR PÁLMASON.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
An incredible cover. That yellow.
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The Kristin Hersh Archives @thekharchives.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's the 40th anniversary of the release of @throwingmuses.bsky.social's "Doghouse Cassette", the blueprint for their debut album that was recorded with the help of Gary Smith and Geoff Patterson. #TMDoghouse40 Every cassette inlay was colored by hand.
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Elizabeth Klinck @eklinck.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Remembering Kris Kristofferson (1938-2024) ....Kris Kristofferson parks his bike at Oxford University, where he studied English literature as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
News via @sabzian.bsky.social that Hartmut Bitomsky has died. I've, embarrassingly, seen only a few of his works, but there's no doubt he's central to the history of the essay film. sabzian.be/news/hartmut...
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Hartmut Bitomsky (1942-2025)
The German writer, film critic, documentary and essay filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky has passed away.
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Cold Journey is a remarkable film and this new Blu comes with important extras like Defalco’s Bird of Passage as well. Essential.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Happy 40th birthday to Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain - released as a single on this day in 1985
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