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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re in town for Adelaide Film Fest come see a bunch of cooked shorts made by hand, with love, on film 🎞️ by locals and some of Aus’s best experimental filmmakers. Being part of this crew has been some of the most fun I’ve had filmmaking recently: www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/2026...

Wombat Workshop - a group of people developing film in the sink of an old kitchen

A man sits on the floor surrounded by people as he shows them how to load a 16mm camera

A woman holds up a strip of 16mm film outdoors to inspect it

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Facebook is chat but niche groups still go hard. Ten year old synth accessory busted, managed to source a replacement at a reasonable price within a couple days. Shout out Mike & Music Gear Nuts 🙏

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 03/08/2026

fuck webp. all my homies hate webp

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Love this – imo gatekeeping techniques is for hacks who feel threatened because they rely on tricks, not their creativity. Share the knowledge, help someone else make something sick and we’re all better for it!

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Irankunda 🔥 guess it’s time to get back into football for the first time in 20 years 😂 also refugees and migrants make this country what it is let’s gooooo

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Stoked to be briefly back in Brisbane aka The Best City™

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Servicing film cameras as an Aussie either requires you to sell a kidney to ship it to a premium outfit in LA or call around every nerd you know until you find a fella called Chris who does cashies out of a shed in Tamworth but used to collimate the space telescopes in Canberra or some bullshit

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

6 screenings in to our national Q&A tour. We’ve had tears, laughter and hecklers – you can’t beat that in-person magic! Plenty more to come, please get along if you can: wearenotpowerless.com.au#screenings

A woman leans forward in her seat in a cinema row, talking with her hands raised.

A smiling crowd gathered in front of a large hand-made banner that says ‘Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre’

A full cinema of people chatting and smiling.

A crowd gathered on the sidewalk outside an old building with a sign that reads ‘Mount Vic Flicks’

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

my Zoom H6 finally kicked the bucket after 13 years. Survived a bunch of short films, 4 docos, a boompole to the face and sticky rubber syndrome. RIP Queen 🙏💙

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Tried to explain to some Gen X mates that eurodance is kind of back and it rules – was an uphill battle

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

4ZZZ is the best Aus independent radio station and Banh Mi is the best Aus culinary delight I’ll die on both these hills

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

jpegmafia getting hair plugs was the beginning of the end RIP

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 15/04/2026

LOGGING ON

close up of Special Agent Dana Scully looking unhappy subtitled

[disgusted sigh]

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The world is cooked but blasting your homie with a rocket launcher at point blank in Goldeneye still goes hard 🤟

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Sucker for some puzzles, vibey art & music, and a sad-sack story! Also OG super smash bros 🤷‍♂️

Cover art for 9 video games: Rez, What Remains of Edith Finch, Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros, Sword & Sworcery, Portal, Minecraft, Gorogoa, Shadow of the Colossus

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Melbourne’s sick, good job everyone 👍

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Filmmaking is just carrying lots of heavy shit around and arguing with airport security about how many batteries you’re allowed to carry on and why they can’t x-ray your film stock

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My GP’s waiting room has all the chairs facing a fishtank instead of a telly playing mindless breakfast shows. Big improvement 🐠

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Such a pleasure to watch Pasa Faho with an audience of African-Aussies + Q&A with the filmmakers. Beautiful script, performances (Okey Bakassi, Tyson Palmer and the rest of the mostly first-timer cast!), cinematography and editing. Iconic Aus film. On tour for the next month. 5/5 woven lace-ups 👞

Three African-Australian filmmakers and an MC on stage doing a Q&A in front of a large audience.

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mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

BoM website really only needs to be this

Melbourne weather forecast in plain text

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We made it!!! So proud of this film and all these amazing people. Thank you Adelaide Film Festival for putting us on and to everyone who helped make it happen 🙏 Screening again Sunday @ 12:45pm www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/2025...

Bunch of smiling faces on the Adelaide Film Festival pink carpet

4 laughing men in front of an Adelaide Film Festival photo wall

A full cinema with people standing up and applauding

A smiling Hazaragi woman on a cinema screen

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Really loved Rental Family. Seems comedy at first but gets at real shit about life, family and love. A few plot holes but so much heart and a proper tearjerker. Akira Emoto and Shannon Mahina Gorman steal the show, Jónsi & Alex Somers score beautiful as always. 4/5 Brendan Fraser Sad Smiles 🥲

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Last night at Quiz night my homie got 8/8 on the OG Mario Kart SNES lineup and I’m still in awe. Donkey Kong Jr. not DK and Koopa Trooper but no Wario?? Incredible

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Radelaide homies We Are Not Powerless is screening in Adelaide Film Fest Wed 22nd & Sun 26th October. Couldn’t be more proud to have helped get this incredible story out there, please come along if you can: www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/2025... *Rest of Aus we’ll be coming your way next year

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We Are Not Powerless - Adelaide Film Festival

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Love this @cameronwilson.bsky.social 👏 the sizzle’s doing some of my fav aus journalism atm highly recommend checking it out

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Guess I listen to Dad Rap now? 🤷‍♂️

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Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

we as a society went wrong when we stopped having casual nudity in movies

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps. Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people" Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

love the concept of mum rock in this piece 🤟 haters gonna hate but FM have the best post break-up ballads to scream along to 😂

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 31/07/2025

The two best movie lengths are “just under 90 minutes” and “just over three hours”

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Faruqui is right: past time for Labor to do, not just say. What is happening in Gaza is so obscene a “progressive” government must step up. What line has to be crossed before Labor do, rather than say something? What is Albanese waiting for? What’s the line? How much worse does it have to get?

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Glenn Charlie Dunks @glenncharliedunks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“The distance between the ABC’s news and the truth has never been more doomscrollable.”

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This weekend my friend @muzafarali.bsky.social finishes a 4,000km bike ride across Australia to raise awareness for refugee-led education and women’s education in Afghanistan. If you’re able to support please consider donating at www.rideforeducation.com

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Ride For Education – 2025

SUPPORT NOW: www.rideforeducation.com This June, Muzafar Ali and the Cisarua Learning team are embarking on a 4,000km journey from Maleny to…

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Whale Rider absolutely holds up. Incredible performances by Keisha Castle-Hughes & Rawiri Paratene w a stellar supporting cast (s/o Grant Roa what a crack up 😂). Beautiful score by Lisa Gerrard, love the dubby vibes. Witi Ihimaera is one hell of a writer. 5/5 taiaha twirls 🏌️‍♂️

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Love this! Sinners was so much fun, keen as to see what he does next. Few new ones for the to-watch list youtu.be/V_wzBKheKEE?...

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Ryan Coogler’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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