Cognescenti Literati

Out beyond ideas of sheer stupidity and pseudo brilliance, there’s a field. I’ll meet you there.

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

If love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can.

[abiola @abxola]

real.

also, isn't it interesting how it's always the english (lit) teachers? what does that tell you about the impact and value of humanities/being able to read 'into' things

[young gun eddie coyle @ivanvespasian]

Many of us cannot properly interpret even a secondary school-level text, yet we are here denigrating others and competing to call people “olodo”.

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

In a world where Scorsese is shilling for AI applications, I guess Nolan will be our voice of reason

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Christopher Nolan on AI:

“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”

🔗 https://t.co/vyUx6mHzaH

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

@ivanvespasian Lmao, Remi!

[g @34rths]

And for my next trick I will call life beautiful and instantly watch it become so

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

Ah, after long last—traversing the highs and lows of the digital waters, I find myself here again—at the mercy of a familiar cache of anime piracy in search of forgotten treasure.

[Christopher @molochofficial]

The thing about the “woke pope” stuff is that, in a better world, assuming a cautious stance towards rapid technological change and insisting on the value of the “human” would be the obvious conservative position

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

@ivanvespasian Lmao, that bad?
Thank god I never saw it

[𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 @int6wn]

soft launching my disappearance

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

@radienblack @CatiaKyen With all due disrespect, are you insane?

[African Film Press @africafilmpress]

Tunisian filmmaker, critic, and historian Férid Boughedir’s 1983 documentary "Caméra d’Afrique" screens in 2K restoration at the 33rd New York African Film Festival today, Saturday, May 9, at noon.

The film premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 1983 and returned to Cannes Classics in 2019 after restoration by France’s Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée with support from the Institut français.

"Caméra d’Afrique" brings together film extracts, archival footage, and interviews with Ousmane Sembène, Med Hondo, Safi Faye, Souleymane Cissé, Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, Inoussa Ousseini, Gaston Kaboré, and Tahar Cheriaa.

Boughedir spent ten years making the film with limited money, filmmaker cooperation, and postproduction support from Andrée Davanture’s Atria, a key structure for Francophone African cinema between 1980 and 1999.

NYAFF has named Boughedir an honored pioneer. Today’s extended conversation offers a rare chance to revisit what "Caméra d’Afrique" recorded, after four more decades of African film, television, video, festivals, and streaming activity.

#AfricanCinema
#CameraDAfrique
#NYAFF2026
#FilmHistory

[Theophilus Mshelia Sokuma @Theo_Sokuma]

“Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil [Hate] is silly. It may be horrible, but at the same time it’s not a compelling idea. It’s predictable.”

-Toni Morrison.

[young gun eddie coyle @ivanvespasian]

I never thought I’d have to do this, but things have become incredibly difficult and I urgently need help. I’ve set up a fundraiser to get through this situation. If you can donate or share, I’d be deeply grateful

https://t.co/4Qiaajl9cF

[masha @masha_slp]

all roads lead back to the loneliness i felt as a child

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

In an incredible feat, my heart has kept on going despite the present torments. I wish only to languish until I see the proverbial light again.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"What are you reading?" Who cares. It's how I'm reading that matters. I'm uncovering relationships between form and content you can't even imagine

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

https://t.co/zbXy5IdygY

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

@itsssthulsss respondez s'il vous plait

[Cognescenti Literati @CognescentiLit]

I’m spent.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Not exaggerating when I say the future of our world depends on people recovering the ability to spend an unbroken hour or two reading a book without being tempted to look at their phones.