Fringe! 2025 kicks off THIS WEEKEND 🚨 🏃
Set the mood for what’s cumming with a peek at our lush trailer 👀
Head to our site to book your tix for all the films featured in the trailer + many more 💙💜💛
Trailer: Stephan Bless
Music kindly provided by: Tom Rasmussen - There’s A Lot To Be Happy About
If you want a “fun” yet “mildly stressful” experience, I would thoroughly endorse catching a screening of Jaws (1975) in 4DX.
PWYC Tickets are out for this sweet and sentimental shorts programme that I’ll be delivering an intro + Q&A for at Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest 2025! Hope to see you there. 🎥 💕
@fringefilmfest.bsky.social
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🚨 It’s time! 🚨 you can now get your filthy paws on the 2025 Fringe! programme 💋
We’re back and our 15th edition overflowing with all the queer feels Whatever you’re into, we’re not going to yuck your yum 😋
Explore the programme & book your tix ⬇️
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Mystery Train (1989) - a Japanese guy and a girl look out into the distance, the guy is styled with a 1950’s quiff and the girl is wearing pale skin toned lipstick
Trust (1990) a blonde girl is sitting down next to a brown haired man standing while smoking a cigarette
Orpheus (1950) a man is lying on the sandy ground and his reflection is seen in the puddle his face sits next to
O, Persecuted (2014) a hand is painting over a projected film with black paint
fave film firsts
march
playing catch-up!
mystery train (1989)
trust (1990)
orpheus (1950)
o, persecuted (2014)
The LFF Critics' Support Fund - helping low income journalists to attend the London Film Festival due to a lack of institutional support - is back for a third year! Find out more and apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An AI generated response for how to manifest an email.
We have fun here.
I will be delivering a paper at @rolesbham.bsky.social on Monday about trans spatialities and temporalities in the unlikely locus of the laundrette 💜 🏳️⚧️ 🧺
Can anyone recommend some side-reading to accompany my introduction to Douglas Sirk? I’m distracted by the Freud of it all.
Last night I watched In The Mood for Love (2000) for the first time, a 35mm print at The Prince Charles (classic). Couldn’t help but notice some parallels in both the theme and visuals with Umbrellas (1964) — fitting given the period of Hong Kong history Wong Kar-wai hones in on.
Photo of a hand holding open a copy of “Humanoids in Transition: Corrupted Binaries, Fluidity, and Embodied In-Between” by Sarah Dean
received a print copy of my peer-reviewed article on trans non-binary humanoids on-screen today!
digital copy available via EBSCO's Film and Television Index
Ah, wild. My piece for the journal Film Matters 15.3 is out!
This was adapted for an UG paper of mine, in which I trans David Bowie and Scarlett Johansson’s alien humanoid characters. Realised with the support of Professor Rosalind Galt. Available here:
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Enjoyed presenting my research on the shift towards trans autoethnographies in non-fiction filmmaking and trans archival practices for #baftss2025
It was lovely to learn about your research on the forest as allegory today and share the panel with you Tugce !
Pleased to share that I’ll be presenting my research on Latin American trans ethnographies at @baftss.bsky.social
conference on Global Aesthetics next week, a right of passage and an honour!
Tonally incoherent week of film viewing
Slow month for everything, especially my brain. So here’s a drawing of a dog I came across the other day:
Made a lil Letterboxd list for films that exemplify when girlhood is constructed through the male-gaze 🎀
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favourite film firsts
feb
chungking express (1994)
hiroshima mon amour (1959)
queer (2024)
can’t find a fourth for this month that wouldn’t feel disingenuous
12 Angry Men: 10 men in suits stare off camera with judgement
High Life: Robert Pattinson is holding a baby in a garden
Killers of the Flower Moon: Lilly Gladstone is surrounded by three other Osage women holding fans
A Real Pain: Kieran Culkin is hugging Jesse Eisenberg at the airport
favourite film firsts
jan
12 angry men (1957)
high life (2018)
killers of the flower moon (2023)
a real pain (2024)
We’re giving, “u k hun?” over here
This is reassuring and comforting 💜 I definitely improve a bit as I move through any presenting but it’s tough to get over the initial hurdle. Thanks for the advice, you’re such a seasoned pro!
I’m also a word-for-word script person so this advice is all very helpful, thank you!! Now to just overcome the physical shaking problem…
Ahh I will be delivering my research at a conference in March. Any advice on this is appreciated!!
Study for a Portrait alongside the proposed reference to Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Study for a Portrait by Francis Bacon. A man is screaming, framed by a 3D shape and sat behind a curtain.
study for a portrait (1952): the curtain at the height of a greasy spoon window really works for me
Also it was actually probably 4am…
Gave myself a 1am anxiety attack the other day when overthinking the lyrics to Wicked’s ‘Dancing Through Life’
There was a fairly frequent sprinkling of laughter in our (full!) screening, some moments felt deliberate others I’m not so sure
