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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This is our new zine! Members of What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective describe how our work changes and stays the same given PrEP; the adoption of the slogan, U = U; COVID; and the fallout of the second Trump presidency. Download yours today. drive.google.com/file/d/1Idxy...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

one.usc.edu/program/our-... Los Angeleneos: Please join us at ONE Archives on Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm for a night of conversation with acclaimed authors and activists to discuss AIDS activism, Asian-American identity, and our current political moment.

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Dec 3, 6-8 pm, closing in NY for HOLDING PATTERNS. A screening of clips on AIDS, displacement, queer death & survival selected by MA student E. Eriole from the VHS Activism Archive, 187 tapes, currently censored: activismvhs.omeka.net/home (contact me for access!) gaycenter.org/event/holdin...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

PLEASE HOLD ... HIV/AIDS & grief: in person! New School, Nov 10, 6:30: event.newschool.edu/pleaseholdfi... New Haven: Nov 11. 6:30 : film.yale.edu/.../2025-11-.... Amherst, Nov 13, 4:30 w/ @p8ja.bsky.social www.amherst.edu/news/events/... Noho, MA, Nov 14, 8 pm: www.eventbrite.com/.../please-h....

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

At Art Farm I wrote about my Queer Feminist Media Praxis: ideas borne from decades of collaboration; then this became fleshy and ongoing in our new zine, "Queering the Corn," and a queer feminist horror film, Corn Killz, both now available on my blog. alexandrajuhasz.com/article-arch...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A delightful and real conversation about activist video, AIDS, and triggers in @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy's "The Letter" with @Mackenzie Lukenbill www.filmcomment.com/blog/intervi...

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Interview: Alexandra Juhasz on Please Hold

Together now: the moving-image artist and scholar discusses her decades-long practice of “memory work”

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

SHAME #whitneymusemofart. ISP alums can still sign and we are about to open the letter to friends of the ISP. Please sign and share!

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ISP Alumni & Faculty

Friends, Faculty, and Alumni of the Whitney Independent Study Program

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Fresh at our video channel, "Encounters at the End of the Book," Alex Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social & friends read poetry from MY PHONE LIES TO ME: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy! As timely as ever. vimeo.com/1066715627 #OpenAccess book here: tinyurl.com/49ztv7dp

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Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event

Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event Online reading of poetry and conversation about Trump's 2nd 100 days in conversation…

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Tonight! a showcase of readings from @punctumbooks authors with all proceeds going to Crips for eSims for Gaza, an intersectional fund working to provide internet connection for Palestinians in Gaza. sign up: form.typeform.com/to/djil009w to donate: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Pride Writing Club, a yearly collaboration between CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies and MoMA. Sign up for in person (June 4) or online club (June 6) via CLAGS. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/clags.... Hope to see you there

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CLAGS x MoMA Present: Pride Writing Club with Alexandra Juhasz

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Join me for Writing Club! 06-04, 7–8:30 p.m. in person 06-06, at 12:00 p.m. ET online We’ll experiment with writing to draw connections btwn theory & practice, art & activism, oneself & others, through the lenses of queerness and feminism. www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

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Pride Writing Club at Home with Alexandra Juhasz | MoMA

Join us for a special edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once onlin...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Peaceful protest #BrooklynCollege met by police. Faculty & staff were there in support and witnessed. Why did @cunychancellor.bsky.social and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social President #MichelleAnderson bring in the @nypd.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/n...

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Police and Brooklyn College Protesters Clash After Pro-Palestinian Rally

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

1 of my abiding beliefs about radical media culture (learned from so many, like Julia Reichert, pictured below): the infrastructures we build, sustain & pass on (writing, this post) are integral to the media we need. Find it here or my website. global.oup.com/academic/pro... alexandrajuhasz.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

For the next 2 weeks, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking for everyone to call their members of Congress about the cuts to and political interference at NIH by the Trump White House. 1/ 5calls.org/issue/nation...

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Defend Scientific Progress and Protect the NIH ⭑ 5 Calls

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest sponsor of biomedical research in the world, driving essential innovations in disease detection …

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

We celebrate @laurawexler.bsky.social critical contribution to photo history and studies @Yale next week. Co-editors, authors & designer for MAGNUM AMERICA/USA, will gather to discuss "What did Magnum see in nearly 75 years of photographing the USA?" www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/magnum...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I love being in community with #katcheairs! Uptown next week in pedagogic art & education community: April 16, 4:10 pm. Can't make it? You can do what Kat did: set up a (free) screening where you live or work or remember AIDS as part of my DIY distribution! pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/scree...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Special #SCMS2025 screening of "Please Hold" on Weds April 3, 7-9 pm, Chicago hosted by Dr. AJ Christian @ downtown Northwestern campus. Invite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/scms-scree... Or you can order for free as a part of its DIY community-based release: pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/scree...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I was pleased to be interviewed by Anna Leah in this conversation about my research @cuny.edu and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social and with fellow New Yorkers, including my new film, Please Hold, and my book of community-made fake news poetry, My Phone Lies to Me.

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25 Colleges. One University.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Deeply disturbing decision to deny tenure to Steven Thrasher. As he notes, by punishing him, Medill & Northwestern are not just trying to silence him. "Their bullying may intimidate students, journalists, faculty, staff, & academics across campus & throughout the country into silencing themselves."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Woke to this 💔 news on such a ☀️ day. In a world of metastasizing cruelty, where education — at all levels — is under threat, Jonathan’s work + life remind us of what is possible + desirable. In his honor today, listen to some 🎶 (ideally not on mp3!) + imagine impairment as an opportunity for grace 💐

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm here in Columbus to attend this lovely series, honoring 35 years of the amazing, generous Film/Video Studio Residency. So many important films and people have passed through here! Thank you Wex! My friend #juanitaszczepanski is pictured from my new video Please Hold.

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Picture Lock 2025 | Wexner Center for the Arts

For the past 35 years the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio has helped hundreds of artists and filmmakers in their pursuit of picture lock: the...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Spend some quality time feeling, listening & learning with critical internet scholars, poets & activists about war, truth, history, AI & deportation. This event was a balm. You don't have 80 minutes? Drop the needle anywhere to take in a poem, song, or thoughts about words. vimeo.com/1066715627

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Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event

Encounters at the End of the Book | My Phone Lies to Me Reading Event Online reading of poetry and conversation about Trump's 2nd 100 days in conversation…

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

They are not playing 3-dimensional chess. They pulled the rug out from under their fellow Democrats from progressives to the Blue Dogs and showed the GOP their willingness to capitulate. 1/

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nonfics.bsky.social @nonfics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Walter Ruttmann is best known for directing the city symphony film 'Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis.' Two years later -- and released 96 years ago today -- he made what could be called a global symphony film, 'Melody of the World.' Watch it here:

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Melody of the World (1929) Walter Ruttmann

Melody of the World (German: Melodie der Welt) is a 1929 German film directed by Walter Ruttmann. It is also known as World Melody. The film is structured li...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My review of @Keiko Lane's important "Blood Loss: a Love Story of AIDS, Activism and Art" @dukepress.bsky.social, 2024 is available in Anarchist Review of Books with other related work including answering machine tapes by David Wojnarowicz. Link to pdf: alexandrajuhasz.com/article-arch...

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My easy-to-do exercise reveals as much as it obscures. Many attributes I cherish (dignity, agency, creativity) stay present! Without the words that have disappeared, what I believe in, have done, and will do, remains legible. I wonder how many words would have to go before I too, vanish.

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My is a process and ness IS one of its technologies

Please enjoy this sanitized version of my yet-to-be-published manifesto, now purged of “discouraged words under Trump” (plus a few more) “These Words are Disappearing in the New T…

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CNN @cnn.com · 10/03/2025

The federal government program that provides free at-home Covid-19 tests says it is “not currently accepting orders,” according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response website.

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Federal government no longer accepting orders for free Covid-19 tests | CNN

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This and other poems from "My Phone Lies to Me" punctum books, 2022 will be read at a Fake News Poetry Reading celebrating truth, science, Latin/x people & more given that this is a second 100 days of lies and fear. March 14, 10:15 am - 12 pm EST, on ZOOM Invite: www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=...

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Science is Real. This poem and more at March 14 Fake News Poetry reading

This is a poem and a video written by Jose G in October 2018 at a Fake News Poetry Workshop at Poets of Course. This and other poems from “My Phone Lies to Me” (punctum books, 2022), wi…

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Heather Schulte @dawnofheather.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We invite you to join us, learn about COVID memorial work that is well underway, and share with your networks. A recording will be available on YouTube following the event.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

SciAm: 'On COVID’s Fifth Anniversary, Scientists Reflect on Mistakes and Successes' 'Millions of people had or suffer from long COVID—a catchall phrase describing postviral symptoms that range from mild to debilitating..but treatments remain elusive.' www.scientificamerican.com/article/on-c...

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Where We Are After Five Years of COVID

Public health experts discuss lessons learned from the U.S. response to the COVID pandemic, on topics ranging from school closures to trust in science

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In 2016-17, I engaged in a daily practice for a first 100 days of a presidency, blogging about #fakenews. Participants from that project (poets, teachers, friends) will read old poems from My Phone Lies to Me #punctumbooks 2022 (free) or new poems on theme: punctumbooks.com/titles/my-ph...

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A Fake News Poetry Reading to mark the 2nd 100 March 14, 10:15 EST on Zoom

A poem by Arlene Campa from a Fake News Poetry Workshop held at Get Lit in LA in March 2018: In 2016-17, I engaged in a daily practice for the first 100 days of a presidency, blogging about fake ne…

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

As DOGE began infiltrating government agencies and targeting federal staff for termination, I started interviewing tech workers on the front lines. With the mass layoffs unfolding today, and with their permission, I'm sharing their stories. This is what it's been like to endure Musk's campaign.

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The federal tech workers facing down DOGE

What it's like to be a federal worker during the dark days of Elon Musk's DOGE campaign

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Join writers from "#AIDS & the Distribution of Crises" (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2020), as we screen & discuss Please Hold, my new experimental doc, on ZOOM, March 8, 3-5 pm EST. See more on blog post or pleaseholdvideo.com or organize your own screening for free: pleaseholdvideo.com/engage/scree...

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Online Premier “Please Hold,” featuring writers from “AIDS and the Distribution of Crises”

Please join editors and writers from the collection, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Duke 2020), as we screen together and then discuss my new experimental documentary, Please Hold (70 mins, 2…

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

NY premier of my #DIY personal documentary engaging with DIY activist media, 2 death bed/legacy videos & the wisdom of living #HIV/AIDS workers: How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go? For tix and much more see: pleaseholdvideo.com

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This conversation will interrogate interplay btwn tactics & strategy in relation to #digital forms of #queeractivism from 1980’s #AIDS crisis to the present day. #transmediale #livefeed Followed by screening of Storytelling Method no. 4: 2 or More; Media as Process. transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We are pleased to announce that our brand new issue, “Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance", guest edited by Terri Francis and Miriam Petty, is now live! You can read the editors' introduction here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

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Editors’ Introduction: A Certain Defiance: The Filmic Art, Archives, and Activism of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch

You have to have a certain sense of defiance in you so you don’t self-destruct. They can’t stop the creative thing in you.1—Camille Billops

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

#Poetry from reflection and compassion for the loss. I can't tell if my 2022 book of poems about the previous 100 days is tragic, useful, or both but it presses in community with Winter in America (Again. So glad I got to watch. Find links & video in blog post. aljean.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/p...

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New issue out of the open access journal LITERATURE FILM QUARTERLY! lfq.salisbury.edu

Screenshot of the landing page of LITERATURE FILM QUARTERLY.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/01/2025

Our big social media platforms have been *intentionally designed* to make it near impossible to find (and post) useful, timely information about disasters, as this article points out - this has been angering me for years. We need “most recent” and functional search! Which Bluesky provides.

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Social media platforms are not built for this

We have simultaneously too much and too little information.

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"Journalism is just one tool in the anti-fascist toolbox. Those of us who create it must take seriously how our responsibilities intersect with and uplift the other tools that will, together, enable people to effectively organize against authoritarianism." truthout.org/articles/a-c...

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A Call to Media Organizations: Don’t Back Down in the Face of Trump’s Threats

Trump’s attacks on press freedom aren’t separate from his attacks on oppressed communities. We must resist them all.

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Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The end of this project in a darkness [a commitment to using the internet for a week without the amplification of Meta© products concurrent with the coming into formation of a new regime] that is a different kind of light. An electric energy between decent people dependent on different technologies

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together through the process: a final summary as lights go out

It’s a rehearsing, when I speak to you. Because I trust you. And this is part of a set of conversations that have happened over time. We’re practicing as it were, what it is that I thin…

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A multi-screen video essay by the very brilliant Dayna McLeod that puts Wild at Heart (directed by David Lynch, 1990) in conversation with The Wizard of Oz (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939), to (parts of) Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game (1989). vimeo.com/651811352?sh...

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This World is Only Gonna Break Your Heart

A multi-screen video essay that puts Wild at Heart (directed by David Lynch, 1990) in conversation with The Wizard of Oz (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939), to (parts…

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