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Anton Bitel

@antbit.projectedfigures.com
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Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope. The #Horror, the #Horror Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival. London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society. ProjectedFigures.com

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
"an uncompromisingly hardcore – and often banned – study in sexual obsession": Nagisa Oshima's allegory of "Japan’s phallocentric, self-destructive imperialism" IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ai no corrida, 1976) screens 8.45pm today at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2017/09/23/t...
Sada Abe (Eiko Matsuda) leaves her lover breathless, strangling him with a red sash.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23/09/2026
AI after it has wiped out the last of the humans...
Image from the end of FINDING NEMO: having successfully made their escape from the dentist's display aquarium, in their respective plastic bags filled with water the fish float on the sea's surface, free and yet not really free at all. The caption, quoting the film's final line, reads: "Now what?"
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 21/09/2026
Tom Toro, for the New Yorker, nailing academia
At a drinks party in a living room, a man in a tie says to the couple with whom he is huddled: "Behold, as I guide our conversation to my narrow area of expertise."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 21/09/2026
"This is man, woman and chainsaw, sexed-up and stylised, exposing a Japanese housewife’s indoor appetites and anxieties": Banmei Takahashi's home invasion slasher DOOR (1988) screens 6.30pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London. projectedfigures.com/2024/12/16/s...
Housewife Yasuko Honda (director Banmei Takahashi’s wife Keiko Takahashi) lies on top of door-to-door salesman Yamakawa (Daijiro Tsusumi) in a bloody embrace on the floor.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 19/09/2026
"locates several horrors – and maybe a vampire – in a remote Spanish convent": Oscar Martín’s period gothic nunsploitationer UPIRO (2026) had its world première at Fantastic Fest. Love this unpredictable feminist dream/nightmare. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/19/u...
Novice Ana (Pauline Brisy) looks defiant while taking the communion wafer.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 18/09/2026
Nostalgia menu: the amiably postmodern DEAD MEDIA "sees a stalled Zoomer accidentally entering the world of a cursed horror DVD". US roadshow begins 10pm tonight at the Sidewalk Cinema, Birmingham, AL, with Q&A from writer/director @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/04/12/d...
Uncle Heppy (Sam Landman) holds up a DVD copy of Romero-ripoff NIGHT OF THE LURCHERSDEAD MEDIA Theatrical Roadshow
 with writer/director Joseph Scrimshaw in attendance!


Sept. 18 - Birmingham, AL - Sidewalk Cinema @ 10:00PM
Sept. 20 - Atlanta, GA - Tara Theatre @ 7:00PM

Sept. 22 - Austin, TX - Violet Crown Cinema @ 7:00PM

Sept. 23 - Dallas, TX - Violet Crown Cinema @ 7:00PM

Sept. 24 - Houston, TX - River Oaks Houston @ 7:45PM

Sept. 27 - New York City, NY - Low Cinema @ 2:00PM

Sept. 27 - New York City, NY - Cinema Village @ 8:00PM

Sept. 29 - Portland, OR - Living Room Theaters @ 7:00PM

Sept. 30 - San Francisco, CA - ATA (Artists' Television Access) @ 7:00PM

Oct. 2 - Palm Springs, CA - Festival Theaters @ 7:30PM

Oct. 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Whammy Analog @ 4:00PM
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 14/09/2026
"a chilling tragedy of families, broken and badly reconstituted": Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz's cult fairytale horror THE LODGE (2019) is on BloodStream TV from today. projectedfigures.com/2020/12/06/s...
Medium close-up of a bloody-nosed Grace (Riley Keough) with a halo-like light behind her
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13/09/2026
Latest review screener has me related to Jessica
text reads: "Licenses to : Anton Biel"
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12/09/2026
"brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare": @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social's enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD (2026) screens 5pm today at MOTELX, with Q&A. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...
A high angle in widescreen shows a solitary tree and near it a solitary tombstone, both in a field of virgin snow that is an unsullied white but for the splash of red in front of the grave, and the trail of footprints left by a uniformed woman (Toby Poser) who stands before it.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 11/09/2026
"a work of winning charm and surreal background detail, where everyone desires, but not everyone knows what – or who – they want": Bill Forsyth's coming-of-ager GREGORY'S GIRL (1980) is on @filmmovement.bsky.social Plus from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/08/11/s...
Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) with new girl Dorothy (Dee Hepburn) on the football field
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 10/09/2026
In Julia Kowalski’s witchy fable HER WILL BE DONE (Que ma volonté soit faite, 2025), "an alienated adolescent woman embraces her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy" projectedfigures.com/2026/09/10/h...
Medium close-up of teen Nawojka (Maria Wróbel) leaning over in a grassy field and licking her finger
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 08/09/2026
Drop some JACKETS 👩‍💼🖤🧑‍💼
Georges (Jean Dujardin), wearing a brown deerskin jacket, admires his reflection in a car window. From Quentin Dupieux's DEERSKIN (LA DAIM, 2019), a film obsessed with (and named after) a jacket. https://projectedfigures.com/2022/05/22/deerskin-le-daim-2019/
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 03/09/2026
"contemplates spectatorship, alterity and mystery in a trick of the light": Anders Elsrud Hultgreen’s mesmerising short film YIELD TO ITS GAZE (2026) projectedfigures.com/2026/09/03/y...
A wide shot of a lake at dusk, with a 'light orb' and its reflection on the distant horizon, and a subtitle for the voiceover that reads, "Breathe in slowly."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 25/08/2026
Social media post from brodie / knox.
There is a photo of a street set in Glasgow at night.
The text reads: "went to the Batman 2 set in Glasgow and one of the security people said that they have to search the set for Irn Bru every night because the locals are trying to sneak one into the film and they keep popping up in the bins and hot dog stands lmao"
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/08/2026
Cookie Monster appears before a commission
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/08/2026
Relatable
Medium close-up profile of a man lying supine on the ground and bloody-faced, withe the subtitle: "Grief became a sickness that consumed all that had [sic] left of Anton's humanity."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 18/08/2026
"sly, wry existential allegory of life’s disposable relationships": Sam Voutas' time-loop tragicomedy YESTERDAY ISLAND (2025) re-screens 11.15am today (19 Aug) at @melbfilmfest.bsky.social. Capsule for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/events/sci-f...
wide shot: in yellow jacket and beanie, Amos (Ivan Aristeguita) stands in front of the shabby arctic shack that might just become his forever home.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 18/08/2026
Medium close-up- of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), standing in suit with his hands clasped as though in prayer, saying, "I'm a pimp"Medium close-up- of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), standing in suit with his hands clasped as though in prayer, saying, "and pimps don't commit suicide"
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 17/08/2026
haha!
Screenshot of header from e-mail sent by Crocs. Text reads: "We got your order. (You have great taste!)"
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 15/08/2026
"sly, wry existential allegory of life’s disposable relationships": Sam Voutas' time-loop tragicomedy YESTERDAY ISLAND (2025) screens 6pm today at @melbfilmfest.bsky.social. Capsule for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/events/sci-f...
wide shot: in yellow jacket and beanie, Amos (Ivan Aristeguita) stands in front of the shabby arctic shack that might just become his forever home.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 14/08/2026
Yes I have a page open showing results of an image search for A-frame cabins. The last time this happened was when I was writing about EVIL DEAD RISE...
Screenshot of results from a DuckDuckGo image search for A-frame cabins. I.e., lots of A-frame cabins.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 08/08/2026
Never had a screener do this before. Have to wait a period of time before accessing it (and I can tell you, it has been a lot longer than 20 minutes, and it is still not ready). I just want to watch the damn film so I can write a review of it...
text: "We're applying a personalised watermark to your copy...
This usually takes 10–20 minutes. You can leave this tab open."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 07/08/2026
"a film of two apartments, and the aching gap between them": Ramon and Silvan Zürcher's bright, breezy, eccentric THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (2021) shows a young woman coming to terms with the disappearance of her social web. Now on @filmmovement.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2023/01/16/s...
Medium shot: dressed in a white shirt, Mara (Henriette Confurius) looks back over her shoulder with longing at Jan (Flurin Giger), in a black T-shirt.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 07/08/2026
"Zach Passero’s affectionate Eighties-inflected animated monster movie lets teen rites of passage camp alongside adult ritual": THE WEIRD KIDZ (2022) starts its US 'Embrace the Weird' roadshow today, via @antennareleasing.bsky.social, with Passero Q&Aing. projectedfigures.com/2022/10/15/t...
All the weird kidz sitting around a campfire, with the silhouette of a giant ant overwhelming the backgroundPoster showing the 'Embrace the Weird' tour dates, including: 
8/7 - BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS (Los Angeles)
8/9 - Art Theatre of Long Beach (Long Beach) 
8/11 - Artists' Television Access (San Francisco)
8/12 - The Dreamland Cinema (Sacramento)
8/22 - Alamo Drafthouse Winchester (Winchester, VA)
8/23 - PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia)
8/25 - TBD (New York City)
8/26 - SModcastle (Atlantic Highlands, NJ)
8/27 - TBD (Boston)
8/29 - River Oaks Theatre (Houston)
8/30 - Texas Theatre (Dallas)
8/31 - TBD (Austin)
9/4 - IN THEATERS NATIONWIDE
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 06/08/2026
our boy sure knows how to sleep well
a tom cat luxuriates on a bed, asleep with his legs in the air and his belly exposed
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 04/08/2026
Hello, kitties!
Sibling cats look up from the chair where they have been snoozing together. They are snuggled on a grey pillow, and the sister is looking right into the camera.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/07/2026
Beyond parody
text: "Trump said he does not believe Zelensky’s statement that Russia transferred satellite imagery of US facilities to Iran. "We will find out if that's true. I will ask Putin about it," the US president said."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/07/2026
Face***k post from Welcome to Night Vale: "BREAKING: There are now upwards of 25 wolves inside you."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/07/2026
Two cats sit in a cat tree. The queen looks off nonchalantly to the side, while her brother stares right into the camera - and into your soul.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 25/07/2026
I love it when a film unexpectedly switches genre
Nicole Horner (Simone Signoret) nervously declaring, "My head is about to explode." (from Henri-Georges Clouzot's LES DIABOLIQUES, 1955)
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 18/07/2026
Our tom, seven years ago, characteristically occupying two chairs at once (one green, one blue), and looking mildly put out that anyone should be surprised at this.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 17/07/2026
Asher Perlman cartoon: a bearded man who has been captured by two mobsters pleads, "Just make it fast," adding, "oh god", as he sees a fedora'd sloth approaching him with a switchblade.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 16/07/2026
Honoured to have a booklet essay ("The search for a happy ending: a writer's disability in Mike Flanagan's HUSH") in this superb two-disc Limited Edition 4K UHD release @arrowvideo.bsky.social
The package elements for Arrow's Limited Edition 4K UHD release of Mike Flanagan's HUSH (2016): the sleeve (with a picture of the Man turned away to face a cabin while holding a crossbow), the case, the booklet and the two discs) Front page of my essay ("The search for a happy ending: a writer's disability in Mike Flanagan's HUSH"), showing Maddie (Kate Siegel) staring to camera in medium close-up
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13/07/2026
(Un)sympathetic magic: Kenichi Ugana’s satirical J-horror THE CURSE (2025) "updates familiar possession tropes to the online age of the smart phone". On digital platforms in UK/Ireland/Australia/New Zealand from today via Blue Finch Film Releasing. projectedfigures.com/2025/09/19/t...
A woman whose face is covered in blood smiles broadly as she checks her smartphone
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 10/07/2026
Turn on, tune in, cutout: the offworld anthropology of René Laloux's trippily animated sci-fi allegory FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) combines cruelty and transcendence. Re-screens 4.30pm today at 부천국제판타스틱영화제 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2020/12/22/f...
A giant young blue-skinned 'Draag' holds a pet 'Om' (i.e. human) child in the palm of her hand.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 05/07/2026
It has finally happened! The main character in the film that I am currently watching is wearing black Crocs, and I find myself fully represented on screen.
Still of the lower legs and feet of two work colleagues standing side-by-side waiting for a bus late at night. She is wearing white trainers, he is wearing black Crocs. Both have umbrellas.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 03/07/2026
Donald Trump, embodying 'unsexy' like a (bullying, boorish) boss
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 02/07/2026
Heatwave red: Graham Humphreys' poster has been revealed for this year's @frightfest.bsky.social (27th -31st August). The full programme will be announced 2pm, 16th July.
A green monster towers over Odeon Leicester Square, manipulating a skeleton puppet above the heads of the crowd who seem variously awestruck and terrified.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 01/07/2026
"the werewolf myth allows traditional notions of family ties and maternal instincts to be stretched to their outer limits": the Blu-ray of Marco Dutra & @julianarojas.bsky.social's GOOD MANNERS (2017) can now be pre-ordered via @vinsyn.bsky.social. Review for BFI. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
a human hand holds a hairy, clawed, not-so-human hand
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 01/07/2026
Honoured to have contributed an essay ("Fantasy, fate and ferality in Fabián Bielinsky’s The Aura") to this home release from @umbrellaent.bsky.social, announced today. An eccentric, epileptic thriller, both underseen and must-see - and soon seeable. Order now.
A display of all the elements (sleeve, slipcase, disc, postcards, book, reversible poster) of Umbrella Entertainments home release of  Fabián Bielinsky’s THE AURA, 2005)
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 30/06/2026
From tomorrow, Umbrella Entertainment spawns UNIVERSAL HORROR: MONSTERS & CURIOSITIES, a gargantuan pack of 45 studio genre titles. Honoured to have contributed an essay ("Horror to scale: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN in the monstrous age of the atom") to its 100-page hardback booklet.
Front cover of the boxset depicting a colourful collage of Universal monstersFront cover of the boxset's booklet: a b&w still showing Elsa Lanchester, in full Bride of Frankenstein makeup, applying makeup before a purse mirrorTitle page for my essay, "Horror to scale: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN in the monstrous age of the atom", with a modernist mixed-media image showing a man on a step brandishing a sewing needle to fend off a giant spider below.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 30/06/2026
Honoured to have a piece ("Family film: alienation, abjection and errant desire in Todd Solondz's HAPPINESS (1998)") in Vol. 6 of Radiance Films' DIRTY ARTHOUSE magazine, alongside riches from @mdconterio.bsky.social, Kat Ellinger, @horrornonna.com and @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social
The black-on-red front cover of Dirty Arthouse vol. 6, depicting Harmony Korine
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 25/06/2026
Guy Venables cartoon
As a man in a T-shirt and shorts gulps from a bottle of water, a suited businessman with briefcase tells him: "Take it easy buddy. Think of the data centres."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23/06/2026
"finds something monstrous and murderous emerging into a neighbourhood’s surface calm": William Bagley’s surreal suburban satire HOLD THE FORT (2025) streams from today on digital HD in North America via Sunrise Films. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hold...
In a bourgeois suburban domestic interior, a blood-drenched, knife-wielding Lucas (Chris Mayers) and beige-cardiganed Ted (Levi Burdick) stand to either side facing a werewolf which occupies the centre of the shot with its back to the camera.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 19/06/2026
Girls just want to have fun: Donnie Hobbie’s 70s/90s-inflected feature debut JUMP SCARE (2025) "sees a heavy metal band drawn into a cannibalised horror scenario". Screens 3.45pm (and virtually) at @chattfilmfest.org, and 11.30pm at @danceswithfilms.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/04/12/j...
wide shot of a woman standing in the dark by a parked police car, facing a misty desert cabin
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 16/06/2026
Cartoon by Vaughan Tomlinson:
one of two canine defendants says to the other, "This isn't good", as their judge - a cat - enters the courtroom.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 15/06/2026
"a strange, ambiguous blend of cosmic awe and grounded humanism": it is disclosure day for Jonathan Sobol's SIGNAL ONE (2026), now on DVD via @signatureuk.bsky.social. Capsule for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/events/sci-f...
Medium close-up of computer scientist Annika (Isabelle Fuhrman) seated in a white recliner chair and dressed in a white T-shirt, with a sensor helmet on her head.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 14/06/2026
Four-panel cartoon by Theresa Scovil.
Panel 1, In my childhood: girl asks "Am I weird?"
Panel 2, In my teens: girl: "Oh no! I'm definitely weird! How do I stop being weird?"
Panel 3, In my 20s: young woman: "I need to stop being weird! It's the only way I'll succeed in life!"
Panel 4, In my 30s: woman with arms outstretched: "Out of my way! I'm weird!"
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 08/06/2026
Our tom makes a good pillow for his sister
A queen uses her tom brother as a pillow
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 04/06/2026
"three characters crossing boundaries, switching languages and breaking laws while finding agreeable compromise": Johannes Vang’s comic short film PÅ GRENSA (RÁJIIN | RAJALLA | BORDERLINE) (2026) has its N. American première, 8.30pm tonight at @imaginenative.org projectedfigures.com/2026/06/02/p...
Wide shot of a man (Sverre Porsanger) fishing by the Three-Country Cairn that marks the border between Norway, Sweden and Finnland. In the sky above is the short film's multilingual title "PÅ GRENSA | Rájiin | Rajalla | Borderline"
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