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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I adored Nicolás Pereda’s EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE. Delightful formal play with a variety of cameras and sound recordings, compositions and performances on and off screen, and also it’s hilarious (I laughed out loud more than during anything else I’ve watched this year)

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

here’s a chronological list of the 30 best 1970s experimental/psychedelic folk albums that I made a few years ago

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In 1970 he got in trouble for a Navy Times article critical of the Vietnam war effort (that was the year he had 20 years of service and soon retired with career benefits to become a high school principal)

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Apparently I’m wrong and the first entry was 1950, when he was 19 years old and first joined the Navy, and the cover page was added later in ‘57

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My dad growing up in Japan where his dad was based as a Navy officer

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My grandpa on Mt Vesuvius in 1960

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

First and last entries from a notebook my grandpa maintained for 67 years

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“We reject that our programmers have intimidated filmmakers, that we’ve silenced filmmakers,” says Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle, and that’s why she’s going to individually contact filmmakers who signed this letter to intimidate and silence them into removing their names

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

RIP Simeon Fields, elder statesman of east Kentucky folk music, fingerpicker and bridge player extraordinaire, mortal enemy of Bush and Trump, immortal UK basketball fan, grandpa (and great-great grandpa) to a legion of us

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

they’re telling me this is a sports team mascot. no. this is the murderer in a giallo film

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

someone on the opposite side of the world in Melbourne organized a screening of avant garde Christmas films based on the list I made a couple years ago, and mailed me a copy of the program

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

drinking Fritz Lang’s favorite Riesling tonight

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I’ve already seen a number of very good films this year courtesy of the IFFR program. CHRONOVISOR is the best of them but also: THE KILLING OF MEGHNAD (Avikunthak) TYCOON (Zhang) ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOVIE IS A GUN (Sein) XTENDED RELEASE (Solondz) FOR ONCE I DREAMED OF YOU (Solar)

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Happy fifth birthday to my dog Waylon and happy twenty-fifth birthday to the song “Drops of Jupiter” by Train

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Apparently my slightly silly and fully shameless effort to get people to watch some avant garde films was the second most popular list on Letterboxd of 2025

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

In response to mass popular demand I’ve resumed my project of listing the best country albums by decade The best country albums of the 1980s:

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

RIP Joe Ely, flatlander, honky tonker, and piano key clicker. This is one of my favorite albums of all time.

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

An updated version of my avant-garde Christmas movies list, with twenty films and videos and downloadable files for eighteen of them

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I had assumed that the psychedelic horse sequence in Basma al-Sharif’s DEEP SLEEP (left) was quoting Malcolm Le Grice’s BERLIN HORSE (right) but she just told me it was created entirely by accident when her super 8 camera caught fire with that roll inside

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Gwenifer Raymond’s third LP is one of the very best albums of the year. She recalls why Fahey’s style was dubbed “American primitive” in the first place—that mysterious, ancient-feeling, string-rattling tension shared by country blues, mountain folk, and Hindustani classical

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Film noir was “a kind of modernism in the popular cinema: it used unorthodox narration; it resisted sentiment and censorship; it reveled in the ‘social fantastic’; it demonstrated the ambiguity of human motives; and it made commodity culture seem like a wasteland.”

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I wrote briefly about this year’s Light Matter experimental film program

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Far and away the best fiddle-accordion duo album I’ve heard this year, and that would probably still be true if I had heard any others

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

On that note here are ten films screening at the fest this weekend that I recommend:

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

we made a pumpkin-caramelized onion risotto with fried sage and hazelnuts

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Michael Baxandall describes a form of cultural knowledge that was lost for over four centuries after the Italian Renaissance, until the films of Straub-Huillet:

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Emerson on social media: “their every post chagrins us”

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I no longer have access to an academic library and can’t afford to buy every scholarly book I want to reference. If anyone has PDFs of any of the following I would be very grateful

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’ve been casually working on an all time favorite albums list, posting this rough top 12 now in honor of the goat Michael Hurley. RIP

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

all the sets I saw at Big Ears ranked

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Gillian Rose summarizes Ernst Bloch on Utopia and fascism. Seems familiar/relevant

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Brecht privately making fun of Stalinism in 1938, according to a memory from Walter Benjamin:

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I made a thoroughly half assed (but ranked) list of my favorite comedies. I will not defend this list if anyone questions whether these are really comedies or why I didn’t include other stuff, but I do think these are all good movies

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

As a public sector union officer I think it’s bad that the federal government is just declaring public sector union contracts void and canceling their grievances

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I made a Letterboxd list of films produced by the Barcelona School, a group of experimental and underground dissident filmmakers working in the later years of the Franco dictatorship. Might be regrettably relevant for Americans before long!

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Statement from APWU president Mark Dimondstein on Trump’s plans for a hostile takeover of the Postal Service

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I bet the Lacanians lined up for Carpenter’s film in Germany

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don’t care if people watch 16mm films on scans or cam rips or whatever but I’m organizing a movement to boycott 2D screenings of 3D films Perhaps I’m the only person willing to die on this hill; so be it, I’ll die alone

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Lenin weighs in on recent events at karagarga

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Incredible things happening on the other site

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The current horror film landscape desperately needs a revival of Woodite genre criticism

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Great film that ought to be known among the best films actively addressing the 1968 moment. Link (with English subs) in comment

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Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I made a list of the 75 best avant garde films of the first quarter of the 21st century, according to me at this particular moment Substack post: notreconciled.substack.com/p/the-21st-c... Google Drive folder with all the films I can share digitally: drive.google.com/drive/folder...