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[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"Memory isn’t neutral. It is subject to engineering, even by seemingly benign institutions. As so many of these films demonstrate, archival knowledge is partisan because those instigating enforced forgetting are also partisan. Filmmakers, then, must become archivists, because archivists represent a guerilla force in the war against memory."

Michael Sicinski writes on short films and features from TIFF's Wavelengths section: https://t.co/6QcsbO3cyd

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@secretflix Definitely https://t.co/RIOmJBKWhm!
A 1965 Soviet film about a 1930s Soviet steelmaking factory. Pastiche from day 1.

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@laurencesmb Being picked up by Palace is itself a touch non-effusive.

[Boomkat.com @boomkatonline]

Ben Vida back with a new one for Shelter Press, feat Nina Dante, Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett and Félicia Atkinson narrating his simmering chamber-jazz, tipped FFO Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Gil Scott-Heron, Gastr Del Sol

https://t.co/FUXMa1fKdT

[Gerard-Jan Claes @gerardfranz]

The English translation of Jacques Aumont’s Montage is now freely available on the Caboose website.
→ https://t.co/toysNDKCxx

[Chris Kennedy @secretflix]

Tomonari Nishikawa’s films have rarely been seen in his home county of Japan. Help his family change that by supporting the tour Miki Nishikawa is organizing:

https://t.co/9dg22a8GN6

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@colleen_daves @secretflix @DanielGorman20 Happy to. Luck!

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@secretflix @colleen_daves @DanielGorman20 She was very responsive when I reached out to her.
Her contact details are here: https://t.co/plM9mgfODp
and I would recommend her gmail.

[Nick Feik @NickFeik]

“Malinauskus was regularly agitating for Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation... Eventually, the board relented. They had seen what had happened at Bendigo, and they did it anyway."

New: On the background to the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle

https://t.co/zL9z8F0wg4

[Chris Kennedy @secretflix]

“Where is the hope, Mr. Tarr?” - @TIFF_NET audience member at the premiere of WERKMEISTER HARMONIES

“The hope is that you are here, watching this film.” - Béla Tarr

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why not

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@cosmicjester A very good bakery and cafe. Their Chicken Caesar sandwich is special. With a very cosy layout.

[iarnbarru @iarnbarru]

TIL Peter Watkins made a film in 1991 on Australian foreign policy & the ABC’s coverage of the Gulf War (co-starring Paul Cox?) and it’s on YouTube in full: https://t.co/7fyTgdKdGh

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

Peter Watkins, 1935-2025

The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90

https://t.co/QvrViCFKoG

[Ken Jacobs @nervousken]

Fix your gaze on a detail and reverse motion and depth configuration.

[Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swen_ryan]

Rest in peace Ken Jacobs, forever one of the most unpredictable and visionary of experimental filmmakers.

[CLASH @ClashMagazine]

Optimo’s JD Twitch / Keith McIvor has died.

An inspiration, a cornerstone of Scottish rave culture, and above all else a fantastic human being. He will be missed.

https://t.co/HFvoKG1WTV