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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My good friend, Victor, who is not on Bluesky has published his first book in French on the work of Radu Jude. Available to buy in French bookshops or online at 202 éditions.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A new departure in Denis’s corpus, moving more towards branding and fashion than before. Unsurprisingly, Miu Miu has not tagged Denis — as her account remains unverified and rather anonymous.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The way I misregistered this image as a still from Aki Kaurismäki’s Lights in the Dusk needs to be studied.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What a tennis ball fortune gets you.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We have strayed too far from god’s light.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Very fun movie that feels—for lack of a better word—handmade! and tangible. Good honest filmmaking.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

To whomever scanned their copy of Nancy’s The Inoperative Community to Internet Archive — great notes!

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My first conference to come with a pool. Hope I don’t get Jacques Deray’ed.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Closing the day with a panel on psychoanalytic film theory.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Louise Bouvet-Zieleskiewicz discusses Deleuze, the time-image, and the production of the “Event”.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Chiara Tognolotti and Laura Vichi discuss Germaine Dulac’s writings and gender perspective.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Day 2 of the French Theory & Contemporary Screen Studies Conference starting today, with a panel on Death Images, with presenters from NOVA University Lisbon.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Keynote speaker Sarah Cooper discussing the global circulation of film theory and its points of contact with non-western film theory.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Day 1 of the French Theory & Contemporary Screen Studies conference, in Trinity College Dublin, kicking off this morning.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Just spent a Saturday evening arguing with my phone provider.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A collaboration dreamt up in hell.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Huge moment for me, personally and intellectually.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

He should have worn an eyepatch instead, like Fritz Lang and Samuel Fuller.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Gmail’s recommended responses to a postdoc rejection.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Women love Walter Matthau. Fact.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Before Netflix hits us with forced ads, catch John Carpenter’s Starman (1984).

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Phoebe, you messaged me at a very bad time.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Watching one of my favourite films of the past few years before it leaves Netflix.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

First bit of research post-PhD. Working on something cool for Routledge.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Some examples of the 80+ screenshots in the whole thesis.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I have officially completed my PhD and submitted the final hardbound thesis to Trinity Library. It has been a privilege to study here for 8 consecutive years. My thesis is the first major scholarship on the subject of Alexandre Astruc’s theory in the digital age.

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Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Today I am thinking about Wiseman and among his many films — Meat (1979) — which I have only been able to watch once. Its genealogy starts with Franju and recently Andrea Arnold’s Cow (2022).