Alex F 🇵🇸

Words on avant garde film etc @toneglow, @InRO @ultradogme etc. Union steward, Appalachian, historical materialist. they/them

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

I wrote about the revelatory filmography of Peter Bundy, who ought to be known as one of the great American experimental filmmakers of the late 70s/early 80s

Four of his films streaming on Ultra Dogme (online for the first time ever) and others this wknd at Tone Glow Film Fest

[ULTRA DOGME @ultradogme]

Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes:
https://t.co/QGmw4souJc

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

RIP my goat John Anderson

https://t.co/ktWliRrD2t

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

@kermiszk Unfortunately many of the best new films (and particularly experimental stuff) aren’t easily viewable no matter where you live unless it’s New York City

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

Fear of looking stupid for liking (or disliking) something is a fatal flaw for a critic, but also one that’s encouraged by a media culture where every writer has to be their own advocate on social media

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

The best writer friendships and group chats I’m in have a healthy dynamic where one person can think something is terrible and another love it and both be curious and respectful about the disagreement. Twitter is…not like that

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

Apart from its other virtues, a regular encounter with the avant garde can be a good therapy for bad ways of thinking about more conventional forms

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

people who want film viewing to be an epistemological exercise should just watch David Gatten films

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

I find most discussions of the truth status and parameters/boundaries of documentary filmmaking tedious in the same way I find most analytic philosophy tedious. Who cares! What does it *mean*?

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

To the extent these categories hold up usefully it’s as functional ones of how works ask to be engaged with. But even then the question doesn’t resolve itself into two categories called “narrative fiction” and “documentary film”

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

I find most discussions of the truth status and parameters/boundaries of documentary filmmaking tedious in the same way I find most analytic philosophy tedious. Who cares! What does it *mean*?

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

All documentaries are fiction films and aesthetic objects and all fiction films and aesthetic objects are documentaries. So many analyses obfuscate more than they reveal

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

we can’t resolve our historical contradictions individually we can only reveal and respond to them

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

you call bullshit when you see bullshit imo, it’s not about maintaining your purity it’s about maintaining a critical standpoint

[helmet girl is @ home @sbodrojan]

the thing that fucking sucks about generative AI is that it is basically infeasible to *not* unknowingly engage with it if you love art. You will love a movie with AI involved in its creation; you already do! And I don't know what to do about that!

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

Pitchfork Sunday 10.0 when

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

Perfect album

[Vermette @exovedate_ltd]

Toronto only. Starting a club. First drop-in starts this Thursday. Open to all.

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

@CommuterFilm Ah yeah I guess that just hasn’t been an issue for me because for films released before I was following new releases I default to the premiere date without worrying about when it became viewable to someone here

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

Dimensional Excursions (Peter Rose)
Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao)
Were All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Dry Leaf (Alexander Koberidze)

HMs: Caught by the Tides, Memoria, Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney, Laberint Sequences

[Hit Factory @HitFactoryPod]

Current Top 5 2020s:
Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World (Jude)
Janet Planet (Baker)
Pacifiction (Serra)
Eureka (Alonzo)
Happyend (Sora)

HM: Blue Moon, Eephus, Red Rooms, The Killer, Return to Seoul, Failed State, Miroirs No. 3

[C.J. Prince @cj_prin]

Rhayne Vermette's film Levers is available to watch for free online this month on Equinox Film. It's apocalyptic, enigmatic, and feels relevant to our current times yet somehow exists outside of time. Well worth seeing.

https://t.co/cSaIX6YEIi

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

Letterboxd version: https://t.co/M8lFNMeBAV

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

It’s that time of year (the best time of year)

https://t.co/J0sb2yyc3E

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

https://t.co/aN0yIIHLd5