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

Sunday October 18th 6pm in Semaphore. Tickets are $10. Fuck AI, shout out Bryce K for making it all happen, Wombat Workshop forever 🤟

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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 · 28/07/2026

this looks rad congrats keen as!!

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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 · 24/07/2026

only correct opinions as always thank you for your service 💯🙏

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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

continuing on this just shipped a tiny film camera halfway around the world to a dude called Don in small town Wisconsin. Very normal hobby 😅

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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 · 25/05/2026

my heart is still broken about Affinity suite bruh 😔 was finally getting as proficient with it as I used to be w Adobe now it’s also slowly being suffocated by AI shit. Guess I’ll hang on to v2 till the wheels fall off 🤷‍♂️

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

Also tried to explain albino black sheep .com to my Gen Z mate. He was equally confused

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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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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

kinda mad I played it on switch even though I had a Wii U at the time. GOAT console

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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

between this shit and broadband costs man feels like a good time to get into like DVDs and low frequency radio 🙃

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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

Nintendoland 🔥🔥🔥 had way too much fun shooting arrows in that zelda game!

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

me too!! On I think my first iphone on a family road trip before final year of high school. That same trip I was reading I guess ‘alternative’ literature for the first time, Jeanette Winterson. Reckoned I was hot shit, all down hill from there 😂

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

changed my lifeeee duuuudeee I think about it all the time 😭💙

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

also gotta shout out Vectorpark, Proteus, Cibele, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Psychonauts, No Man’s Sky, Bayonetta 1 & 2, Super Mario 3D World, Journey, World of Goo. I’m a 2010s hipster till I die 😤

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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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Hamish Ludbrook @h3ymish.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Doja album slaaaapppsss been one of my favs to listen right through this year 🔥

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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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