Today, Bahram Beyzaie’s passing pierced my heart. He was my homeland made flesh—a guardian of cinema, theater, literature, and culture. With him gone, it feels as though I have lost my homeland once more. What remains is only an immense emptiness, a hollow that roars and churns inside me.

A thousand griefs & regrets, dear Mr. Beyzaei 🖤 You have flied for the world of shadows, and beneath the weight of this deep sorrow, I find myself thinking that perhaps The Stranger and the Fog (1974) was the pure distillation of our time: “There is no salvation. All that remains is to weep.”

🎞️ Excited to see our article & translated piece featured in new issue of Screen! Very grateful for generous mentorship & collaboration of my advisor, Dr. Kaveh Askari. If you’re interested in classical film theory & its medial foundations this might be of interest! academic.oup.com/screen/artic...

Join us for Feminist Influences: An Online Roundtable (Feb 12, 5PM EST) — featuring brilliant voices in feminist film and media studies! @hennefem.bsky.social @shelleystamp.bsky.social

Honored to have had the chance to review such an inspiring and intellectually rich work. Thank you for your brilliant scholarship and kind words! 🎞️❤️

در این بهار، بر ما چه می‌وزد جز طوفان غم؟

Join us tomorrow (6–8 PM) at @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for our roundtable: Objects to Hold Onto: Rethinking Global Film History through Loss,Fragmentation & Amnesia. Excited to be in conversation with: Dr. Grazia Ingravalle, Dr. Joshua Yumibe, Dr.Eric Hahn & Dr. Michelle Baroody! #SCMS2025

هرجا که می‌رفت و هرجا که بود، ندایی درونش زمزمه می‌کرد: من اینجا غریبم.

#SCMS25 is almost upon us! Please join me and my fellow panelists, Jane Gaines, Pam Wojcik, Carolyn Condon Jacobs, and @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social on Thursday, April 3 @ 2.15pm to discuss THE FILMS OF ALICE GUY BLACHE!

دلم برای خونه تنگه، برای چهره‌های آشنا، برای نگاه‌هایی که حرف همو میفهمن بدون اینکه چیزی بگن… ‏عیدها دلم بیشتر تنگه… As spring arrives, may it bring warmth, joy, and prosperity into our lives. Happy Nowruz!

MARJAN Directed by Shahla Riahi (Ghodrat-ol-Zaman Vafadoost) Sunday, Feb. 16, 3:30 PM Introduction and post-screening Q&A with Farzaneh Ebrahimzadeh Holasu @farzanehebh.bsky.social, Ph.D. student of film ​studies in the English department at Michigan State University. mspfilm.org/show/il-cine...

Join us for a special screening of Shahla Riahi’s Marjan (1956), the first feature film directed and produced by a woman in Iran, made through the first studio founded and owned by a woman.

Many thanks to Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld for organizing this remarkable festival, showcasing Il Cinema Ritrovato’s 2024 lineup with a focus on feminist, & anti-colonial cinemas. I’m honored to take part and discuss Marjan(1956), first Persian feature directed-produced by a woman in Iran.

🎬 2. VRAŽDA ING. CERTA (MURDERING THE DEVIL) Introduction by Alice Lovejoy Friday, February 14 • 8:30pm A feast of feminist revenge for an absurdist appetite, Murdering the Devil is the perfect Valentine’s Day date movie. mspfilm.org/show/il-cine...

🎬 1. THE BRILLIANT BIOGRAPH Introduction by Maggie Hennefeld Friday, February 14 • 6:30pm • Tickets: FREE This compilation features beautiful fragments of silent films from the earliest years of cinema. mspfilm.org/show/il-cine...

Highlighting the selections for this year's Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in Minneapolis... 🎉 📽 💓 mspfilm.org/series/il-ci... ✨️Opening night, Feb. 14, features two screenings along with a reception at 7:30 in the lobby of the Main Cinema catered by Baba's!

Cheers to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @stefansolomon.bsky.social for winning “2025 SCMS Best Edited Collection Award” for their brilliant book, Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film!What a well-deserved honor!

Folks teaching spring courses on feminism / cinema / archives, our double-issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social on "Curating Feminist Film Archives" is currently open access!!! @laurah.bsky.social would be happy to make syllabus suggestions for your course topic. 🎞️❤️ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10...

Christmas in Tehran, Iran with “Beppe Flavi” band and iconic Googoosh at Couchini café in the 1960s, located at the intersection of Kakh Street and Elizabeth (Keshavarz) Boulevard.

غمگینم و غم‌انگیز هم.

William Wyler & iconic Googoosh👑 1974,Tehran international film festival

BIG NEWS!!! After over a century of waiting, Léontine has *finally* been named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year for 2024!!!! (The previously announced pick was an incorrect rumor.) This is a big day for Léontine & for all of us at Cinema's First Nasty Women. Please join us in celebrating!!! 🎉🎞️🎶♥️

The unknown S.A.Makuxina — as Səkinə in Gilan Qizi [Gilan’s Daughter] (1928) By Leo Mur [Leonti Muraşko] Like Makuxina, the story of Gilan's daughter is also incomplete, and her desires, wishes, and struggles are not reflected (Gilan girl in the novel is so different).

Sofia Jozeffi (1906–1982) played a “dual role” in the silent film Qız qalası əfsanəsi [Legend of Maiden Tower] (1924), directed by Vladimir Ballyuzek. The movie, based on one of the versions of an Azerbaijani myth, depicted a tragic tale and became a box office hit.

The surviving fragment of VICENTA (Musidora, 1919) is now streaming online on HENRI! www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...

Fantastic FQ review of the groundbreaking collection INCOMPLETE: FEMINIST POSSIBILITIES OF THE UNFINISHED FILM!! Congrats to editors @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @stefansolomon.bsky.social Available in my Feminist Media Histories book series @ucpress.bsky.social

"A landmark contribution...By challenging the traditional notions of completeness and embracing the fragmentary, Beeston and Solomon offer a radical rethinking of film history and theory." Amazing new review of #Incomplete in @filmquarterly.bsky.social 😍😍😍 doi.org/10.1525/fq.2...

At home, I had lived most intensely in the cinema. ... In those dark spaces, I had dreamed of a life elsewhere. Now, in the place that for all those years had been the “elsewhere,” no further dream was possible.