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Film and other tricks of the light. Also wolves.
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'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
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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).
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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.
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WOLVES DON'T LIVE BY THE RULES
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Elisapie - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules (feat. Joe Grass)
YouTube video by Elisapie
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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.
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Le Monde in English
11 days ago
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
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Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
The French-Iranian 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/06/04/marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56_6754122_15.html
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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.
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Someone should write an Andy Burnham song to the tune of David Bowie's Andy Warhol.
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"How does one invoke the Spirit of Cinema?" Angela Carter, The Merchant of Shadows (in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, 1993)
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WHEN WORDS FALL SILENT CINEMA SPEAKS Zineb Sedira at Tate Britain
#art
#film
#Algeria
#France
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Who nose? Christel Bodenstein as the Princess in The Singing Ringing Tree/Das singende, klingende Bäumchen.(Francesco Stefani, 1957, GDR).
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#fairytale
#prosthetics
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Tish
Tish Murtha used her camera to celebrate overlooked working-class lives and to fight for social change in 1980s Britain. Her daughter, Ella, uncovers her poignant story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001xyrg/tish
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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.
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Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence Trailer
YouTube video by San Diego Italian Film Festival
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This
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plague ship story has got a very Nosferatu / End of Days vibe seeping out of it.
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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
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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.
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Graeme Swanson
about 2 months ago
I hear Iran are just weeks away from developing a ballroom.
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'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
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Rio Cinema founder honoured with plaque on 50th anniversary
In 1909, Clara Ludski opened what is now one of the UK's longest continuously running cinemas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8470334eo
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There's always someone worse off than yourself.
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Alexander Calder performing his miniature Circus. Filmed by Jean PainlevĂŠ in 1955
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Alexander Calder performs his "Circus" | Whitney Museum of American Art
YouTube video by Whitney Museum of American Art
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'D IS FOR DISTANCE' Official UK Trailer (2025) | Documentary | @britishfilminstitute
YouTube video by Indie Film Trailers Worldwide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nouf2rY8LuI
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This is a really stupid idea.
#lightpollution
#wildlife
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ele...
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Elephant and Castle skyline plan would beam lights into the night sky
Southwark Council has outlined a plan to turn the Elephant and Castle area into its own Blade Runner, by beaming lights into the night sky.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/elephant-and-castle-skyline-plan-would-beam-lights-into-the-night-sky-88543/
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John Bengtson, film historian who tracked down the locations used in Hollywood silent movies
His ability to identify locations was uncanny, and fellow film historian Kevin Brownlow asked âdoes he lay out his photos on a Ouija board?â
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/aabd427f2ce5e4b3
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J.A.Tallon
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Bruce Connerâs Visionary Experimental Films Take Over the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles
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Toothsome? Pierre Fresnay with a smiling horse.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
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2/2 Detail of child-spirit at Jacob Vrel's window. So unsettling! Not your normal Dutch Golden Age moment.
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Patrick Hamilton Love, Sorrow, and Going to The Pictures in 1920s London. Patrick Hamiltonâs "Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky"
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Love, Sorrow, and Going to the Pictures
Cinema going in 1920s London in Patrick Hamilton's "20,000 Streets Under the Sky".
https://www.ballooonmeinherr.org/home/to-hide-from-the-roaring-world
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London Review of Books
3 months ago
âWe canât avoid the fact that, if Chantal Akermanâs is a bedroom cinema, it might well be because she spent months at a time in bed. And if itâs also a manic, joyful cinema, this might be indebted to her highs.â Daniella Shreir (
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Daniella Shreir ¡ My Motherâs Prison: Chantal Akermanâs Predicament
Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/daniella-shreir/my-mother-s-prison
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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
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3 months ago
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. â
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Lotte Eisner, 5 March 1996
#film
#Expressionism
#Germany
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Tish
Tish Murtha used her camera to celebrate overlooked working-class lives and to fight for social change in 1980s Britain. Her daughter, Ella, uncovers her poignant story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001xyrg/tish
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Michèle Morgan, born 29 February 1920. With Jean Gabin in Le Quai des brumes (Marcel CarnÊ, 1938) and with Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948}
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Michèle Morgan
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(well, nearly) 29.3.1920. "T'as des beaux yeux tu sais"
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Great to see the Carry On franchise has been revived again.
#WutheringHeights
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Animation from a Victorian Magic Lantern slip slide. A clown throwing a baby up and catching it.
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ÎÎÎÎÎŁ ΤΥÎΧÎÎÎŁâ˘
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Emil van Hauth (German, 1899â1974) "Portrait of Grit Hegesa", 1925. Oil on Canvas, 93 Ă 73.5 cm. Grit Hegesa (1891â1972) was a German Dancer and Silent Film Actress. The National Gallery, London.
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#War
#Patriots
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"UNDEAD WRONG" My letter about the ending of Del Toro's Frankenstein .
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London Review of Books
4 months ago
âWho did the first monochrome? The first black painting? Whose pictorial ground was the first to be âincident-freeâ? Who invented âthe open space conceptâ? Newman claimed them all.â Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman.
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Hal Foster ¡ Zip it: Barnett Newmanâs Anarchism
For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced âas if painting never existed beforeâ, a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/hal-foster/zip-it
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"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.
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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.
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Trump engages Russian design consultancy to oversee the refurbishment of the Kennedy Centre.
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BenjamĂn Schultz-Figueroa
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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.
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Ballooon, mein Herr?
Eclectic blog about film â mainly but not exclusively the first 50 years of cinema. Classics such as Le Quai des Brumes, Mädchen in Uniform, Alice in the Cities; Alternative Christmas films; Animals ...
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Visual Anthropology and the City (Online) - Open City Documentary Festival
This course usually runs once or twice per year. If you have questions please consult our new FAQs page before contacting us. We have also updated policies for course costs/concessions and bursaries, ...
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MaĚret AĚnne Sara: 'Goavve-Geabbil' in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern
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