iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

His name is Tungsten and he’s very small

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What horror movie image haunts you?

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We were the correct amount of critical of Camerahead Cenobite though.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Breaking: the laws of physics no longer seem to apply in my apartment’s tea cupboard. Retrieve the chamomile at your own risk.

Box of tea resting, improbably, on the ceiling

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Got this email 2 hours before I’m scheduled to see Backrooms. Bold of AMC to seemingly build a theater with its own backroom auditorium

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

One of the many crimes of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd — cutting a chorus that includes Anthony Stewart Head, leaving him with a one-shot cameo in the Pirelli scene. Rest in Peace to a great character actor.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Oh this is a fun prompt. Top GBA games! (Among the first video games I played, a few of which I actually took filmmaking lessons from)

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA edition)

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Was watching an episode of Columbo the other day and suddenly pre-Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis appeared as a cranky diner waitress!

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Washington Post should face legal consequences for sending this email the morning after axing one-third of their staff

Flash sale - we have no integrity! We just want money!

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It’s an awards season sandwich, with a random documentary I watched for work in the middle!

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It’s raining in LA and my author copies for DRACULA BEYOND STOKER #7 have arrived! Seeing your words in print is a wonderful feeling. 10/10 would recommend.

an author holding copies of a fiction collection they contributed to. Clearly delighted.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

“The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.” Happy Halloween, Bluesky folk.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

On my bookshelf it’s a close second

The picture book ‘MISTER BABADOOK’ among less sinister picture books and comics

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

No real through line to this week’s viewing, besides it being a series of bangers! STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT - I may have liked this more than the first one, though for wildly different reasons. POISON - A Rosetta Stone for the entire Todd Haynes oeuvre. Not my favorite of his, but essential.

HERO (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
THE LADY EVE (Preston Sturges, 1941)
POISON (Todd Haynes, 1991)
THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT (2018)

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My #LastFourWatched are rarely so contemporary — a dizzying run of 2025 films, interrupted by a true crime documentary I put on for work

K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)
Cropsey (2009)
Drop (2025)
Eddington (2025)

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I spent way too much time this morning agonizing over my best films of the 21st-century ballot. Here it is! Lotta painful omissions but I’m happy with the group I landed on.

My personal list of best films of the century

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Why do we want to make art in a world that actively seeks to devalue artistic expression? #filmsky

Victoria Paige answering ‘why do you want to dance?’ With ‘why do *you* want to live?’ In the 1948 film THE RED SHOES

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

For whatever reason, I watched a lot of orange movies this week…

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Immortals; Ashes of Time; Havoc

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Personally, I love witnessing modern history through the lens of steadily updating Wikipedia pages.

Wikipedia's list of longest solo filibusters, listing Booker's filibuster as 'Ongoing'

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#LastFourWatched EEPHUS: Feels like an adaptation of a great American stage play. LADY VENGEANCE: One of my favorite Chan-Wook Park films! PORCO ROSSO: a Miyazaki gem. EXISTENZ: Cronenberg’s strange VR banger. There’s a bone gun that shoots teeth, what more can you ask for #LetterboxdFriday

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Someone must have asked the Lumiere Music Hall if it’s still operational.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hit all the major demographics this week: a movie made by people I know, a trashy horror film we all enjoy, a European melodrama I watched as part of work research, and Padiiington

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The cat appreciates my new reading chair better than I ever could.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For any UK-based queer film folks who follow me here, THE OCTOBER MARTYR will be screening next Monday at QueerFest Norwhich! Info in the image, as well as a list of other films that will be screening!

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Oh! And Spencer, who did some creature design on this movie that I will not share for spoiler reasons. He’s a real wizard in crafting indie film pieces! Unfortunately the only non-spoiler image I have of him from the shoot is him blowing up this tube. You’ll have to imagine what it’s for.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

While filming, I noticed that a little spider had crawled along the camera’s lens. Didn’t know if it was a good omen or bad (I’m usually quite arachnophobic) I guess that remains to be seen! But shoutout to our unofficial mascot.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Whoop! Forgot to attach an image to the last one. Here’s Denis and I surveying a wide shot

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

… and our other key performer, @loseriloveyou.bsky.social, choreographed our fight scene brilliantly. Her ability to think on her feet saved us precious hours on the day.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Not only was this a movie with an all transfemme cast (!) but having performers with strong artistic perspectives made all the difference. @cameronlaventure.bsky.social, who played the lead, is a terrific director. She offered up many suggestions that wound up saving the movie…

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

While this sounds chaotic (it was) the movie was meticulously storyboarded by yours truly. Pictured: one of 3 storyboard pages. Other two withheld for spoiler reasons.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We had two cameras rolling almost simultaneously on set to make the most of our time - an A Camera doing most of the main action, and a B camera capturing inserts and supplemental footage. Sometimes, I would even abandon A cam to direct B cam while my DP was lighting

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Although it was conceived as a low stakes project, it was uniquely challenging. I went to work without many of my usual crutches: we were shooting without dialogue, on film, in a single day.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Apropos of nothing, here are more behind the scenes pictures from my latest directing effort - a short 8mm Nightmare I’m calling INVASIVE (Currently in post production) 🧵

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I’m cheating a bit and posting two from the same film roll* - one of my roommate, the other of my cat *(Ektar 100, for the curious)

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I directed something quick and spooky earlier this December — the set photographer captured me cradling a Super8 camera like it’s my child.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This Thanksgiving, I’m gonna reprise this look from the FilmQuest green room (minus a few inches of hair)

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This November has been a great month for Letterboxd reviews of shorts I directed. Still cackling with delight at the Martyr one.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Attn Bluesky: I penned half of this podcast miniseries on DRACULA! Most of it is behind a paywall, but the first episode, which I wrote, is free on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts! 🦇 It’s a rare privilege to get paid to overanalyze one of your favorite books. wondery.com/shows/the-re...

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Went to an Awards Screening of Oppenheimer last night @ Skywalker Ranch. The sound at this theater is pretty incredible boxd.it/5k66Qz

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Last year at Another Hole in the Head, the cast & crew of THE OCTOBER MARTYR, stylish in spite of the rain - From left to right, me (director), Matt (actor), @jacobdavison.bsky.social (writer), Zoe Yale (actor), Jesse Merlin (actor) Photo taken by my high school friend Dean, with my 35mm camera

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

POV: you’re a writer who uses a fountain pen who also likes having fabulous nails.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

WTF I’m at an early screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie. Living in LA is really really cool sometimes.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Four horror movies to get to know me! (what can I say? I love the 70s)

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Don’t mind me, I’m just salvaging my best tweet from earlier this year...

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Some glimpses of the upcoming short film NO SLASHER HERE, written & directed by me! The slasher-mystery subgenre is an intrinsically summer vibe for me; it was a delight to spend Spring-Summer making this film, even if it won’t hit festivals until the fall.

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Robia Tiemstra @timestar.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Just found a notebook that I thought I’d lost back in 2020. Contained within were some crude character sketches for a Gothic Horror short film I wrote but never wound up making. I quite like these, though. For someone with no real arts training they aren’t bad.

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