Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

‼️ ALERT. The Trump Administration is dismantling NASA’s Goddard Library and destroying irreplaceable archives. While Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Jared Isaacman talk about Mars, Russ Vought pushes deep cuts to NASA Science. You do not reach Mars by burning knowledge.

A stellar lineup of the year’s best Canadian films from @hertzbarry.bsky.social, including Measures For A Funeral at #6!

Happy Friday! If you're a paid subscriber to SHINY THINGS, you just got my reviews of THE SECRET AGENT, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG and MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL in this week's What's Worth Watching newsletter. And if you're not, I'm sad for you! It's fun to be in the loop! (You can subscribe at the link.)

To tell a tall, uncontrived, surprising tale in picture and sound and re-define what a story can be. “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of the soul.” Ingmar Bergman #oscars2026

perfectly a strangeness shortlisted for Short Doc! @academyawards.bsky.social @secondsightinc.bsky.social

Three Netflix Titles Plus An ‘Undesirable’ Film Make Oscar Doc Feature Shortlist, Matthew Carey reports for @deadline.com mailchi.mp/docnyc.net/m...

"This whole nightmare would end if someone would just tell Trump that Obama can hold his breath for 15 minutes."

Seasons greetings, or whatever

Really incredible full map of the star-studded sky.

perfectly a strangeness shortlisted for Short Doc! @academyawards.bsky.social @secondsightinc.bsky.social

Oscar Contender ‘Perfectly A Strangeness’ Imagines Donkey Perspective One of the most cinematic documentaries of the year comes in short form, with no dialogue. Alison McAlpine’s Oscar contender perfectly a strangeness, winner of more than a dozen awards at film festivals around the world, runs a…

I'm not a subscriber, but I imagine this story for the FT by Anj on the idea of AI data centres in space is a must-read. www.ft.com/content/cc07...

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

The Cinema Eye Honors 2026 Short List has recognized perfectly a strangeness! It's a great honour to be included with the other great short films on the list 🎞️ 🎉 #perfectlyastrangeness #shortfilm #filmfestival

🎬 perfectly a strangeness will be screening in New York and Los Angeles as part of the 2026 Cinema Eye Honors Shorts List. With the other great films being shown, it's not one to miss! New York: www.dctvny.org/s/firehousec... Los Angeles: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-... #cinemaeyehonors

The clippity-clops of donkey hooves fuel the offbeat donkumentary 'perfectly a strangeness', screening this weekend as part of TIFF's Canada's Top Ten. 🫏 povmagazine.com/alison-mcalp...

SpaceX claims close approach to Starlink satellite by payload from Chinese launch A reported close approach between a Starlink satellite and a recently launched Chinese spacecraft highlights the challenges of coordinating spacecraft operations and verifying potential close calls in orbit.

Measures for a Funeral: my favorite type of ghost story, one where the resonances of reality flicker back and forth with the spiritual, asking the viewer how it reflects upon them. if not for April, i would call this the best sound design since Memoria. incredible autistic-coded lead performance

finally watched the last thing i really care abt for the year last night so, favorite movies of 2025

#astrophotography #lightpollution #satellites #astronomy #starlink Not good for the future of astronomy and night skies. Nothing new, just another article that is depressing....and infuriating. darksky.org/news/how-sat...

SHIFTING BASELINES plays like a black & white dystopian science fiction tale from the 1950's except it's true and about Elon Musk's Space X trying to shoot rockets into space and destroying a Texas community. See it at @DOCNYCfest www.unseenfilms.net/2025/11/shif...

Canadian docs THE PINK PILL, SHIFTING BASELINES, and A VIEW FROM HOME among @docnycfest.bsky.social winners: povmagazine.com/three-canadi...

Sofia Bohdanowicz's elegant and emotional MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL screens at noon on Sunday at TIFF Lightbox, and you owe it to yourself to see it in a big loud auditorium.

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Canadian Film: Joan Chen, Montreal My Beautiful Runners-up: Deragh Campbell, Measures for a Funeral; Vincent Cassel, The Shrouds #TFCAawards

Director Sofia Bohdanowicz on her new film Measures for a Funeral, partly made in Montreal

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞́𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬! 🚀 Le film est toujours à l'affiche au Québec! Cinéma Public, Cinéma Moderne et Cinéma Beaumont! ✨ Billets : f3m.ca/en/film/shifting-baselines @lesfilmsdu3mars.bsky.social • @greenground-prod.bsky.social

🏆 The 2025 DOC NYC Kaleidoscope Competition Grand Jury Prize goes to SHIFTING BASELINES, “its striking black-and-white cinematography and bold artistic choices draw the viewer into a story that feels both urgent and universal.” Watch it online thru 11/30 at: www.docnyc.net/film/shiftin...

🏆 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 @docnycfest.bsky.social ! We’re thrilled to announce that Shifting Baselines has been awarded the Grand Jury Prize in the Kaleidoscope Competition! 🎉 A heartfelt thank you to the Kaleidoscope Jury for this extraordinary recognition. 🚀 ___ @greenground-prod.bsky.social

🚀 Shifting Baselines just received a 𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐲'𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in the International Competition at FIDOCS! ___ @greenground-prod.bsky.social

SHIFTING BASELINES In the Texan town of Boca Chica, Elon Musk’s SpaceX annexes the land and skies, upending ecosystems and community, in a dystopian look at what happens when greed and ego have no visible boundaries. www.docnyc.net/film/shiftin...

Toronto film pals! The Fox is screening Julien Élie's documentary SHIFTING BASELINES Saturday afternoon. I saw it at #WIFF last month and it's very good -- a moody, monochrome look at the ruin being wrought by Elon Musk's obsession with blowing up rockets.

SHIFTING BASELINES Sat, Nov 15 at 9:30 PM | Village East by Angelika www.docnyc.net/film/shiftin...

Shifting Baselines, Julien Elie’s gorgeous black and white essay on #SpaceX #Spacejunk #BocaChica and the fate of humanity on today at #DocNYC!

Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell's MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL closes out (or maybe expands) the Audrey Benac cinematic universe with tremendous ambition and haunting mystery. A revealing, rich coda for Canadian film's most rigorously obsessive collaborators. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

#NYC! 🚀 Shifting Baselines will be screened this Saturday November 15 at 9:30 PM at @docnycfest.bsky.social as part of the Kaleidoscope Competition! 🗓️ Saturday November 15 at 9:30 PM 📍 Village East by Angelika 🎟️ Tickets 👉 www.docnyc.net/film/shifting-baselines @greenground-prod.bsky.social

🚀 #Toronto! Come see Shifting Baselines by Julien Elie at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, November 15 at 12:45 p.m.!✨ 🎟️ Tickets 👉 www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/shifting-baselines @lesfilmsdu3mars.bsky.social • @greenground-prod.bsky.social #SpaceX #Astronomy #Environment

Où voir le film au Québec cette semaine? Billets : f3m.ca/film/shifting-baselines

🚨Three Chinese astronauts couldn’t return to Earth after space junk hit their spacecraft. Scientists warn this could be just the first of more accidents caused by orbital debris. The situation is concerning. “There are a lot of people up there,” one source told me. My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪

Let's ruin the night sky some more... www.scientificamerican.com/article/alar...

Measures for a Funeral review – virtuosic classical music drama is like a Tár companion piece | Movies https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/93813/ This high-minded, dense and in many ways impressive drama about classical music from Canadian director Sofia Bohdanowicz could…

Ashes to Ashes ...Toronto to Oslo - we got the exclusive trailer first look for Sofia Bohdanowicz's Measures for a Funeral bit.ly/4oHt2Dj

Coming to theatres across Canada in the coming weeks!!

Le film est toujours en salle! 👉 f3m.ca/en/film/shifting-baselines @lesfilmsdu3mars.bsky.social • @greenground-prod.bsky.social

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! 🚀 Shifting Baselines received a Special Mention at the @docsmx.bsky.social Festival in Mexico! A huge thank-you to the festival and congratulations to the whole team! 🎉 @greenground-prod.bsky.social | @lesfilmsdu3mars.bsky.social

¡𝐂𝐈𝐔𝐃𝐀𝐃 𝐃𝐄 𝐌𝐄́𝐗𝐈𝐂𝐎! No se pierdan 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, la última película de Julien Elie, director del documental 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐬, at @docsmx.bsky.social - en competencia Global Docs. La película se proyectará los días 27 y 28 de octubre, con la presencia del director. Más información: bit.ly/496PmBZ

Sold out screening at Cinema Beaubien today for @shiftingbaselines.bsky.social and a great Q&A with @angryastropanda.bsky.social

🪐 Encore merci @matthieudugal.bsky.social pour vos beaux mots! Vous pouvez réécouter la chronique dans l'émission Moteur de recherche du 21 octobre, disponible sur RC OHdio : bit.ly/MoteurdeRecherche_21octobre 🎬 À l'affiche tous les jours! 🎟️ Billets 👉 f3m.ca/film/shifting-baselines