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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

An amazing week comes to a close. Thank you to all the FfS conspirators. You’ve been fantastic.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

So the embodied carbon in the ink doesn’t count? Why’s that? Because of its (predicted) longevity?

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So what makes it GGR or not? (Asking for a friend)

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Ychydig ddyddiau i wneud cais am FfS-Dyfi! Cyflwynwch erbyn diwedd dydd Sul, Tachwedd 30ain. Cyfweliad awtomatig os oes gennych gysylltiad cryf â'r ardal a'ch bod yn: · O aelwyd incwm isel · O'r Mwyafrif Byd-eang · Byddar, anabl neu'n niwroamrywiol · Cymraeg fel iaith gyntaf

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Last few days to apply for FfS-Dyfi! Automatic interview if you’re strongly connected to the Dyfi, Rheidol, Ystwyth & you identify as one or more of: • living in a low-income, low-asset household, • a member of the Global Majority • d/Deaf, disabled or Neurodivergent • Welsh as first language

Ffilm School Dyfi poster with black and white bitmapped image of Llyfnant Valley Celtic rainforest, taken by an unknown photographer uploaded to lostrainforestsofbritain.org. Apply by Sunday 30th November

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CO₂RE – The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub @co2rehub.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Reminder: just a few days left to apply for a place on the Ffilm School programme! Submit your application by 30 Nov: ffilmschool.org/home/. @iagoaprhys.bsky.social @ffilmschool.bsky.social @ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social @smithschool.ox.ac.uk @undaunted-hq.bsky.social

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Cheers for reposting @bertrussell.bsky.social! I’m looking forward to seeing @kmilb.bsky.social presenting Radical Abundance tonight with @majorityuk.bsky.social Newcastle upon Tyne

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

FfS-Dyfi: Filmmaking for a Flourishing Future 🌱 6 PAID places to (re)learn doc filmmaking centring future wellbeing. For people connected to the Dyfi, Rheidol & Ystwyth watersheds. Apply by 30.11.25 → FfilmSchool.org FfS: we can make film better. @ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social @co2rehub.bsky.social

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

FfS-Dyfi: Ffilmio ar gyfer Dyfodol Llesol 🌱 6 lle TALW i ail-ddysgu ﬃlm dogfen gan ganolbwyntio ar les y dyfodol. I bobl sydd â chysylltiad â dyﬀrynnoedd Dyfi, Rheidol & Ystwyth. Ceisiwch tan 30.11.25→ FfilmSchool.org FfS: gallwn wneud ﬃlm yn well. @ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social @co2rehub.bsky.social

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CO₂RE – The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub @co2rehub.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Applications are open for @ffilmschool.bsky.social! FfS-Dyfi: Filmmaking for a Flourishing Future 🌱6 PAID places to (re)learn doc filmmaking centring future wellbeing. For people connected to the Dyfi, Rheidol & Ystwyth watersheds. Apply by 30.11.25 → FfilmSchool.org

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

a thaflenni FfilmSchool! and FfilmSchool fliers!

Thaflenni FfilmSchool fliers yn / at Sploj, Machynlleth

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Posteri FfilmSchool yn mynd i fyny ledled ardal Dyfi! FfilmSchool posters going up all over the Dyfi area!

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I found possibly my worst ever example of a obliterated public footpath today at Cerrig-tranau-uchaf by the Dyfi floodplain. Signs gone, barbed wire, overgrown brambles and a bridge reduced to a steel bar!

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

@righttoroam.bsky.social Des i ar draws, efallai, yr enghraifft waethaf erioed o lwybr cyhoeddus wedi’i ddinistrio heddiw yn Cerrig-tranau-uchaf ger cors Dyfi. Dim arwyddion, gwifren bigog, mieri wedi tyfu’n wyllt, a phont wedi’i lleihau i far dur yn unig! [English follows]

llun POV o goesau a trainers rhedeg yn symud yn ofalus ar draws bar dur dros ffos ddraenio.

POV image of legs and running shoes edging across a steel bar over a drainage ditch

Mieri trwchus lle mae llwybr cyhoeddus wedi’i farcio.

Thick brambles where a public footpath is marked

Ordnance Survey Explorer map showing the public footpath which has been obliterated.

Map Explorer yr Ordnance Survey yn dangos y llwybr cyhoeddus sydd wedi’i ddinistrio.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

On my way to FfS’s Dyfi home. A stop at Rhug for an overpriced snack. There are pictures of Charles and Camilla in 2013 suspiciously receiving a bouquet. Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. Quite a statement of colonial domination that - Cymru and Kernow, handled by the next Anglo in line.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Very excited to have made a major infrastructural move for FfS today. A secondhand (of course) @frame.work laptop running @mxlinux.bsky.social and @kdenlive.bsky.social A major step towards the anti-extractivist Ffilm School. Freedom from Adobe, Apple and Avid. 1/

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

6/* I’m interested in talking through these tensions. If a creative commons of film and a post-extractivist filmmaking economy is the aim, how do we navigate getting there?

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

5/* there is also the question of the right to refuse use of your knowledges (rushes). Non-commercial restrictions don’t prevent extractivist colonising purposes.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

4/* talking with @paulakahumbu.bsky.social at the 2023 @bectu.bsky.social Autumn Gathering she spoke of her frustration, as a maker of African-led nature documentaries, that the non-commercial restrictions inhibited the possibility of a successful indigenous filmmaking, keeping the power in the UK

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

3/* you can see that by doing this you build a non-capitalist filmmaking ecology. However, while this prefigures a (from our perspective) desirable post-extractivist filmmaking economy, the restriction to be non-profit makes it difficult to exist in the world as it is.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

2/* And that this would be done on a non-commercial and share-alike basis (meaning whatever is made is made available on the same terms - the film it is used in can also not be used in for-profit filmmaking). This is an anti-capitalist position.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

1/* There are unresolved tensions we identify in Creative Commons. FfS holds as an ideal that all rushes would end up in an open access commons which filmmakers could browse and braid into new films.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The lowest impact form of filmmaking is reuse. ♻️ Imagine a filmmaking ecology where all rushes entered the Creative Commons. Here’s a start: sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk Available on a by attribution non-commercial licence.

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BBC Sound Effects

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thank you NSotA cymrawd! Website soon to be updated. FfS soon to be launched recruiting for 6 PAID participants - residential phase August 15-30. Solidarity!

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In 2014 my family and I planted a host of trees in Heartwood forest, north of St Albans, to mark what would have been my elder brother Edward’s 40th birthday. Two of the trees were from the survivor English elms, Castle Acre and Pottersbury, ancestrial homes of each side of the family. They live.

Leaves emerging from the uppermost buds of an English elm, silhouetted against the sky and against the scrubby fringes of Heartswood, a new forest generated from arable farmland in Hertfordshire. The elm is still young, planted in 2014 as a sapling. Greyscale.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

FfS founder james r price wins in the #BAFTSS 2025 awards. If theory is your thing, this article stands with the anti-extractivist principles underlying FfS. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/18261...

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

That is, an ontology of land as private property. He recommends E P Thompson’s ‘Customs in Common’ 1991 for further reading. archive.org/details/cust...

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Customs in common : E. P. Thompson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Speaking after with 1st witness, historian James Vaughn (Chicago): enclosure began earlier under the Tudors, yet the shareholders of the EIC intersected heavily with the landed classes. The two processes intersect. More, enclosure provided the ontological basis for EIC model of colonialism.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The answer is it requires further research, but it demonstrates the interlinked dynamics of the nexuses of power between state and corporate actors, and the individuals who benefit from these legal fictions of state and corporation.

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

FfS asked Advocate Swarti Srivastava about the relationship between the East India Company and enclosure of the commons in the UK, and the subsequent advance of monoculture agriculture.

Greyscale image. Swarti Srivastava in a red dress in front of the court and a video caption which reads “Members of the Public Jury question Advocate Swarti Srivastava”

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FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

FfS was at the first session of the 3rd CICC [Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes]. Case 1: The East India Company and the British Crown: Partners in Crimes Against Ecologies and Communities. www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/cou...

The Court room of the CICC at AmbikaP3, London. The court is located on a yellow wedge, modelled on El Lissitzky’s 1919 red wedge. There are human jurists around the two long sides of the wedge. An indigo plant comrade sits in attendance in a circle cut in the centre of the wedge, with large lightbox images of other subcontinental plant comrades exploited by the defendants. A video screen is placed behind the judge and other court officials to show evidence. Presiding judge Radha D’Souza is explaining how the court will proceed.

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