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I’ve learned so much from @rymontgomery.bsky.social, who is doing excellent work on the French queer filmmaker Lionel Soukaz. À lire absolument

Brilliant keynote for our graduate symposium delivered by an old friend, Damien Pollard. A fascinating theorisation of the voice in sound cinema, from the dubbed voices that haunt the Italian giallo to the voiceover MCs of Ugandan ‘wakaliwood’

🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media. 1/4

Almost ready to launch Hotels. If you’re around London on Wednesday evening, please come join: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hotels-...

Check out the CFP for this year’s World Picture conference hosted in collaboration w/ brilliant colleagues at UvA @jacobengelberg.bsky.social @rhysteven.bsky.social & Abe Geil in November! necs.org/news/calls-f...

Excellent new titles out today: Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by @joshuagooch.bsky.social The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by @julesod.bsky.social

second day of ‘Models’ conference with WP & ICI, Berlin. Such a pleasure to be in presence of such brilliant friends and colleagues .

hugely inspiring first day of World Picture conference ‘23 at the ICI, Berlin

Details of this year’s World Picture conference at the ICI, Berlin are now out here: www.ici-berlin.org/events/model... registration opens 1 November. Hope to see you there!

reminder that World Picture ‘23 takes place at the ICI, Berlin on 17-18 November. Keynotes by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Final Party / Barry Johnston. (free) registration opens Nov 1. see you there 👀

world picture Issue 14 on theme of ‘Spell’ (Summer 2023) is now live on our new site. Ten new pieces, plus info on our upcoming conference: worldpicturejournal.com