Two mechanical lantern slides used to create patterned projections from a toy or domestic lantern slide projector. Mid-late 19th C. The devices themselves are shown at around 45 secs in (the video is silent).

Lina Cavalieri, singer and actor (1874-1944). Largely remembered as an opera singer, she did make a number of silent films both in Europe and the USA. This tinted postcard was circulated in the French mail at Christmas 1912.

WOLVES DON'T LIVE BY THE RULES youtu.be/9fLtMcVPDVM?...

Tinted postcard of the variety artist Mary Roesler, posed sitting on big pink thing and playing a lyre. Circulated in the French mail, Grande Marne district. 1905.

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Saw Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent" yesterday and all I can think about is the cat with two faces. Directors, do not put cats with two faces in your films if you want people to remember the rest of the story.

Someone should write an Andy Burnham song to the tune of David Bowie's Andy Warhol.

"How does one invoke the Spirit of Cinema?" Angela Carter, The Merchant of Shadows (in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, 1993)

WHEN WORDS FALL SILENT CINEMA SPEAKS Zineb Sedira at Tate Britain #art #film #Algeria #France

Who nose? Christel Bodenstein as the Princess in The Singing Ringing Tree/Das singende, klingende Bäumchen.(Francesco Stefani, 1957, GDR). #film #fairytale #prosthetics

Why do people who are being interviewed on TV from home use these filters that make them look like a watercolour that's got damp and run a bit? All it achieves is making everyone wonder what aspect of their appearance they're trying to disguise.

This #Hantavirus plague ship story has got a very Nosferatu / End of Days vibe seeping out of it.

Fear of portrait photography: Victorian magic lantern slip-slide showing an apprehensive (and possibly drunk) sitter and his worst fears being realised. mp4 animation from original slide

Magic lantern slip slide. Sliding glass plates in a hardwood frame provide a simple animation when projected. A crossing sweeper holds out his hat for a tip.

I hear Iran are just weeks away from developing a ballroom.

'The greatest curse brought down on us by technology is that it prevents us from escaping the present even for a brief time.' Stefan Zweig, 1942

There's always someone worse off than yourself.

Alexander Calder performing his miniature Circus. Filmed by Jean Painlevé in 1955 youtu.be/t6jwnu8Izy0?...

This is a really stupid idea. #lightpollution #wildlife www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ele...

Bruce Conner’s Visionary Experimental Films Take Over the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles deadline.com/2026/03/exhi...

Toothsome? Pierre Fresnay with a smiling horse.

2/2 Detail of child-spirit at Jacob Vrel's window. So unsettling! Not your normal Dutch Golden Age moment.

#BOTD Patrick Hamilton Love, Sorrow, and Going to The Pictures in 1920s London. Patrick Hamilton’s "Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky" www.ballooonmeinherr.org/home/to-hide...

‘We can’t avoid the fact that, if Chantal Akerman’s is a bedroom cinema, it might well be because she spent months at a time in bed. And if it’s also a manic, joyful cinema, this might be indebted to her highs.’ Daniella Shreir (@shreir.bsky.social) on the director. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fear of portrait photography: Victorian magic lantern slip-slide showing an apprehensive (and possibly drunk) sitter and his worst fears being realised. mp4 animation from original slide

The train window is one of the best cinema screens It forces us to stitch together narratives from the briefest glimpse. In a blurred moment whole stories race into us. We see a track and know it is older than the line we travel. We see a track and all of its treading ghosts wave to us. – #DAKilroy

#BOTD Lotte Eisner, 5 March 1996 #film #Expressionism #Germany #Weimar

Michèle Morgan, born 29 February 1920. With Jean Gabin in Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) and with Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948}

Michèle Morgan #BOTD (well, nearly) 29.3.1920. "T'as des beaux yeux tu sais"

Womensart supports and posts real art by real artists...

Great to see the Carry On franchise has been revived again. #WutheringHeights

Animation from a Victorian Magic Lantern slip slide. A clown throwing a baby up and catching it.

Emil van Hauth (German, 1899–1974) "Portrait of Grit Hegesa", 1925. Oil on Canvas, 93 × 73.5 cm. Grit Hegesa (1891–1972) was a German Dancer and Silent Film Actress. The National Gallery, London. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

#War #Patriots

"UNDEAD WRONG" My letter about the ending of Del Toro's Frankenstein . #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #arctic

‘Who did the first monochrome? The first black painting? Whose pictorial ground was the first to be “incident-free”? Who invented “the open space concept”? Newman claimed them all.’ Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"THE FOOTPRINTS OF A GIGANTIC HOUND" In the Soviet version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, Lenfilm 1981), the discovery of the body is located in a snowy wood and not, as in Conan Doyle's novel, a formal yew alley. Yevgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer.

PIPE DREAM Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons in the Soviet (Lenfilm) Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, 1981). Probably the coolest Mrs Lyons in any filmed version of Sherlock Holmes' most well-known novel.

Trump engages Russian design consultancy to oversee the refurbishment of the Kennedy Centre.

3. The Expression of Hands (1987). "Would film have developed its own sign language had silent film lasted longer?" Farocki asks this in a work all about the expressive labor performed by hands in film. This is a wonderful film, that finds poetry in moments made for utility and visa-versa.

Máret Ánne Sara: 'Goavve-Geabbil' in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern