15 journalists for a roundtable??? they’re basically organizing a second press conference 😭

there’s a beautiful chinese lady on instagram who posts videos of herself skateboarding while wearing bandage dresses and kitten heel shoes, and for me, those videos are the cinematic highlights of this month.

been asking this question every day at least to five different person since last week 🫠

Parisian friends! Join me at L’Archipel on April 27 at 8 PM, where I’ll be presenting HAMAM by Ferzan Özpetek as part of the Mirages de la vie cinema club, thanks to the gracious invitation of @joffreyspeno.bsky.social. The film will be screened with English subtitles.

Comme promis, mon entretien avec Pedro Pinho, réalisé lors de la rétrospective dédiée au cinéaste au festival Regards Satellites, est désormais disponible en ligne. À lire sur Emitaï ! (Un grand merci à @corent-le.bsky.social pour la relecture) emitai.fr/carnet/entre...

In its latest episode, @outskirtsmag.bsky.social’s Podcast explores the work of one of the most striking figures in the history of horror cinema, Zé do Caixão, who, to me, also represents a very interesting case of pre-digital multimedia practice. Listen to it here: youtu.be/xVjPgDuh6qc?...

I’ll piss people off by saying this, but Berlinale wanted theatrics to win over politics. Given all the enthusiastic reactions, which wiped from everyone’s memory the attempts to stop journalists from exercising their right to free speech, seems like their strategy worked!

the nurse who prepared my biotherapy meds today complimented me: “mademoiselle you have so beautiful, well-defined veins!!” I guess this is how people start to compliment you when you’re ill all the time.

i think people are reacting to hamnet as if they’ve never seen a single emotionally dense film in their lives. i totally get liking the film, but the way some people react to those who didn’t like it as much feels a bit like mass hysteria.

We returned to our roots this week on the podcast, discussing the founding father of Outskirts Film Magazine: the extraordinary Boris Barnet. Our guest was Hannah Yang, curator of Doc Film Chicago's ongoing retrospective of the miraculous Soviet filmmaker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYF...

Cortisone didn’t help much with the symptoms, but I experienced delicious fits of anger on this drug - which I would have otherwise suppressed and moved on from. I thoroughly enjoyed the catharsis.

Yanco platformu için hazırladığım çifte program bugün yayınlandı. Els Opsomer'in kamerasının bir 10 Kasım sabahını yakaladığı kısa filmi "10th of November | 09:05"a Cynthia Madansky'nin Chris Marker esintili İstanbul travelogue'u "Devotion" eşlik ediyor. yanco.be/en/double-bi...

Geçtiğimiz yıl Jean-Luc Godard’ın televizyon mecrasındaki üretimleri üzerine yazdığım ve Aç Yazı’da yayınlanan metni internet siteme yükledim. Kapsamlı olmaktan son derece uzak ama ilerde üzerine daha çok yazmak istediğim bu konunun zeminini oluşturuyor. feridemercury.com/2026/01/31/t...

Geçtiğimiz yıl Jean-Luc Godard’ın televizyon mecrasındaki üretimleri üzerine yazdığım ve Aç Yazı’da yayınlanan metni internet siteme yükledim. Kapsamlı olmaktan son derece uzak ama ilerde üzerine daha çok yazmak istediğim bu konunun zeminini oluşturuyor. feridemercury.com/2026/01/31/t...

I need to find a good but very good excuse to insist on living otherwise I don’t think this has any meaning anymore

weekly update: - lost 2kg (overall 5kg) - lost a lot of blood - and will definitely lose more - lost hope - corticosteroids are not working at all - either them or those stupid antibiotics give me terrible headaches and nausea - I can only a banana and a boiled potato without vomiting

super texte de @corent-le.bsky.social sur son rapport ambivalent à Apocalypse Now, à lire dans la nouvelle revue "critique et décoloniale" Emitaï (emitai.fr) : emitai.fr/essai/lodeur...

Nous suivre sur Instagram (pas de BS désolé) : www.instagram.com/emitairevue/ Nous soutenir (on a monté le projet sans argent) : www.helloasso.com/associations...

RDV sur le site pour lire notre édito ainsi que notre dossier de lancement, à l'occasion duquel chaque membre du comité de rédaction revient sur son rapport au cinéma, à la cinéphilie et à la critique. emitai.fr/carnet/edito...

⚡ emitai.fr est en ligne ⚡ Revue de cinéma critique et décoloniale. Fondée avec les camarades Héléna Alet-Quesneau, Lisa Durand, Simon Hoareau, Occitane Lacurie, Lola Maupas, Marcos Nuñez et Öykü Sofuoğlu. Avec un site magnifique conçu par Adrien Chuttarsing.

the wait is over. my annual film criticism wrapped stats are here

For Ultra Dogme, I wrote about the cinema of João César Monteiro, touching on a number of his films including God's Comedy, Recollections of the Yellow House and What Shall I Do With This Sword? through the perspective of Revolution. ultradogme.com/2025/12/26/j...

Et @feridemercury.com, @untrenoculto.bsky.social, et @aguilarcandanedo.bsky.social y vont de leurs choix aussi. Le cinéma avec tous ses grands écarts de goûts, de formes, et de géographies. Lisez et écoutez @outskirtsmag.bsky.social

@outskirtsmag.bsky.social: le podcast. Notre année 2025. J'y parle du JLG qui nous reste, de Meilleurat qui refait Mouchette pour le 21ème siècle, d'un monument de Fukasaku sans yakuza, et d'une bombe documentaire d'une 20aine de minutes sur le fascisme états-uniens open.spotify.com/episode/2UiC...

it's really hard to make peace with autoimmune and hereditary diseases. unfortunately i have a bunch of them and there's not a single day when i don't regret being who i am.

ophthalmologist today: did you know that you have a congenital retinal disease? me: (after spending my entire life half-blind) no shit?

Had the chance to write about Hlynur Pálmason’s delightful and invigorating The Love That Remains, whose unrestrained and malleable approach to narrative and visual economy I deeply adored. www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/the-l...

pierre clementi - visa de censure n° X

Ca y est, @outskirtsmag.bsky.social a son podcast. J'y serai régulièrement mais pas à chaque fois, mais ça vaudra la peine d'être écouté à chaque fois. La première sur Borowczyck, et pour le prochain, nous parlerons de nos expériences cinéma en 2025 - nouveautés et redécouvertes.

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cherche une place pour la projection de caravaggio ce soir à mk2 bibliothèque

We're delighted to announce the launch of the Outskirts Film Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between and at the peripheries. Rate, subscribe & follow us wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Episodes hosted by Alonso Aguilar, Christopher Small, and Öykü Sofuoğlu (@feridemercury.com) and will feature regular appearances by the whole Outskirts team - Diego Cepeda (@untrenoculto.bsky.social), Raymond Shik, and Nathan Letoré (@nlltr.bsky.social) - as well as other guests.

I started writing a short story in French and I have no idea whether it's good or bad. I feel excited yet insecure about it.

Quelle chance de pouvoir écrire en profondeur sur L'Agent secret, l'un de mes gros coups de cœur de l'année. Kleber Mendonça Filho délivre un film où le cinéma opère comme source, filtre et réceptacle de la mémoire collective. À lire dans Filmexplorer : www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/o-age...

Some humble musings on Kevin B. Lee's Afterlives. feridemercury.com/2025/11/18/e...

Altyazı'nın 21. Yüzyılın En İyi Filmleri çalışması için yolladığım kişisel liste:

Mon entretien avec Rita Azevedo Gomes autour de son nouveau film Fuck the Polis est désormais en ligne. Je suis très heureuse d’avoir pu discuter longuement avec elle et d’explorer sa vision du cinéma en profondeur. debordements.fr/rita-azevedo...

Luca Guadagnino (photo by yours truly)

outfit idea for my upcoming luca guadagnino interview

I don’t want to complain about it too much but after five years, I still feel like an outsider among French critics and when I go back to Turkey, I feel the same because Turkish critics always tend to ignore me and never acknowledge the work I’ve been doing. It’s exhausting.

my humble contributions to this year's viennale catalogue:

Geçtiğimiz hafta takip etme şansı bulduğum Adana Altın Koza'dan izlenimlerim yayında. Bu ülkede fikirlerimizi, eylemlerimizi, mücadelemizi, hattâ neredeyse tüm varoluşumuzu “rağmen” edatının kırılgan zemini üzerine inşa ettiğimizi hatırlatan filmlere dair... altyazi.net/yazilar/seyi...

lee kang-sheng's carbon footprint > taylor swift's carbon footprint

Had a busy few weeks after Locarno and Venice, so I’m only sharing this now: my interview with the remarkable editor Dominique Auvray, to whom we owe films by Duras, Pedro Costa, Wang Bing and many others, is in @outskirtsmag.bsky.social's 3rd issue. Many thanks to Dominique and Christopher!

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today, i went to a park.

sorry but i really don’t like when outlets commission filmmakers to write essays or interview other filmmakers. like, girl?? they already have jobs. do you see me directing films? no!! they should stick to their job and you should be commissioning me.

writing horoscopes, listening to moirée podcast and eating turkish-style pickles dipped in peanut butter... what can a girl want more

i wasn't raised in a religious family, so the only instance that feels as if i'm committing a sin is when i update my linkedin profile.