I updated my new #film, The Night Dancer, with cc for the hearing impaired (I doubt it's perfect, but hope it helps) but being on the #fediverse and experiencing alt text made me think that people with visual impairments would love to enjoy my films. It's quite a challenge to put alt-text on a short film, so I ended up writing it like a short story. I'll maybe try to make time to do an audio-book-imitation of the film instead! And of all my films.
https://www.dilmandila.com/lajok-the-night-dancer/
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I'm making a new film, a dark comedy set in a #solarpunk world where direct democracy thrives, no politicians, no central governments, where communities are self-sufficient and help each other to survive the climate crisis. But I need your support to imagine this future.
Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
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This film is the final step toward making a feature set in this world.
#mutualaid #creativetoots #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film
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« Malgré les désastres écologiques qui s'accumulent, nous assistons au démantèlement des politiques environnementales comme un greenbacklash planétaire. Pourquoi et comment y faire face ? »
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⦁ #CyrilDion, réalisateur du #documentaire Demain, auteur de #LaLutteEnchantée
⦁ #LaureTeulières et #JeanMichelHupé, auteurs de #GreenBacklash, qui veut la peau de l’#écologie ?
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/c-est-pas-du-vent/20251211-greenbacklash-qui-veut-la-peau-de-l-%C3%A9cologie
#écoactivisme #droitisation #film #livres #luttesÉcologiques #environnement @bookstodon
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Lo aspettavo da un sacco e non sono rimasto deluso.
Mars Express è davvero un ottimo thriller cyberpunk con un worldbuilding fantastico, mi sono perso con piacere nei dettagli.
Anche se l'incipit è abbastanza classico, nella seconda metà cominciano a venire fuori tutte le trovate più creative. Il finale è meraviglioso.
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My wife creates a lot of #stainedglass projects that are a little outside the norm. 👻
Here is one she made before #Halloween to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick's classic #film, The Shining.
Read more details about this piece at https://glass-o-lantern.com/the-shining/.
Follow her at https://www.instagram.com/glass_o_lantern/ to see what she works on next.
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MOVIE REVIEW: "ALIEN: ROMULUS"
'Alien: Romulus' ratchets up the tension for fans of the franchise.
#AlienRomulus #Alien #SciFi #Horror #20thCenturyStudios #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
https://hotchka.com/alien-romulus-review
Once described as “the most beautiful man in the movies,” Alain Delon has died at age 88. The actor was a star of the golden era of French cinema, known for his tough-guy persona on screen in hits including “The Samurai” and “Borsalino.” His health declined in recent years and he became a virtual recluse. “I thought he could never die,” one of Delon’s fans said. Read more from the BBC: https://flip.it/gd8UHt
#Culture #Entertainment #Film #Movies #AlainDelon
"The Sunshine Boys" turns 50 this week! Find out what other movies are celebrating milestone anniversaries in Hotchka's Movies by the Decade.
https://hotchka.com/movies-by-the-decade-276
#Hotchka #MoviesByTheDecade #TheSunshineBoys #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
Stoking creative fires: Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026
Until I saw it performed earlier this month, I had doubts that one could successfully adapt an unthemed magazine issue into a stage play. But that’s what the New Classics Collective did with the first and only issue of Fire!!, a literary magazine “devoted to younger Negro artists” published in Harlem in 1926. The play, which premiered at the Quintessence Theatre in my Philadelphia neighborhood, laid a light dramatic frame over a set of performances of plays, poems, stories, drawings and essays from the magazine’s sole issue, including early work by authors like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston who are still known to many readers today.
As a review in fhe Philadelphia Inquirer notes, the play, like the magazine issue that inspired it, is a bit of a hot mess as a whole, but has a lot of talent going into its various parts, and it impressed a sold-out multiracial audience the night I went. The magazine itself perished after its first issue, after a fire destroyed the publication’s office. But both the then-new magazine and the new play that’s just been created from it are bold creative experiments, and I’m confident that the people who produced and experienced the play will go on to create more and better work, whether it’s new versions of what I saw in the play’s premiere, or other work inspired by it, just as the authors and artists in the magazine did.
Along with the people who produced it, we have the public domain to thank for the experience. All 1926 publications joined the public domain in the United States just a few years ago. That makes it possible for anyone who’s found an unburnt copy of Fire!! to digitize it and put it online without needing permission from anyone, as several online book collections now have done. And it means that the New Classics Collective, or anyone else intrigued by the magazine’s content, can freely adapt and repurpose it as they like, without needing to work out deals with all of the creators whose works were adapted for the play. These new versions will have their own copyrights for a time, just as the original 1926 pieces did. But eventually, when they too join join the public domain, they will be free for all of us to remember, share, preserve, and renew as part of our common cultural heritage.
Fifty days from today, the public domain will grow further for many people around the world. In the United States, the last copyrights for 1920s publications (except for sound recordings) joined the public domain here last year. This coming January 1, a new wave of copyright expiration will reach the start of the 1930s, with all remaining publication copyrights from 1930 expiring (as well as 1925 sound recording copyrights). And starting tomorrow, I’ll be featuring selected works that will be joining the public domain here, in short daily posts that will appear on this blog, and also on some social media networks. On Mastodon and other services on the “fediverse“, you can follow this blog by following the user @everybodyslibraries.com, or the hashtag #PublicDomainDayCountdown. I’ll also boost the posts from my own personal Mastodon account (https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom). That account uses the Bridgy Fed service to connect to Blue Sky, where I believe you should be able to follow the user @JMarkOckerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. I’m not aware of any way to automatically get my posts on other large commercial social media, but folks relying on sites dependent on the likes of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg may want to diversify their information sources in any case.
If you follow my posts, I hope you’ll hear about a number of works and creators you know and love, as well as ones you might not be familiar with. You can get an even more diverse and inclusive set of works and perspectives if you also check out other sources that will be promoting the public domain (which I expect to include Wikipedia, the Public Domain Review, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and the Internet Archive as we get closer to the new year). Enjoy the countdown!
#Books #copyright #film #publicDomain #PublicDomainDayCountdown #writing
#Cinéma et #écologie: le 7ème art peut-il réenchanter le monde ?
invités
⦁ Véronique le Bris, journaliste, autrice de #100grandsFilmsBonsPourLaPlanète
⦁ Cyril Dion, cinéaste, auteur de #LaLutteEnchantée, fondateur du collectif CUT : Cinéma Uni pour la Transition
#film #cinéastes #changementsClimatiques #transitionÉcologique #livres @bookstodon
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NEW YORK CITY SCREENING PASSES - MY OLD ASS
Download passes now for the screening on Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 PM at AMC Empire 25.
Quantities are limited! Passes do not guarantee seats. Seating is first come, first served.
#MyOldAss #AubreyPlaza #MGM #AdvanceScreening #Movies #Film #Cinema #Free #NewYorkCity #NYC
https://hotchka.com/my-old-ass-new-york-city-advance-screening-passes
#art #history: what. a. face.
louise brooks, born #otd in 1906, held a universe of expression in her eyes & she lived life on her own terms, social mores be damned.
i've got words for her & i'll post them below for your pleasure.
#louiseBrooks #dandy #film #cinema #kansas #illustration
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Bonjour aux photographes débutants comme moi le développement de négatifs noir et blanc…
Je partage l'appli écrite pour me faciliter la vie, bien suivre le processus avec le révélateur monobain Bergger one
(Code source sur Codeberg)
#film #filmphotography #analog #35mm #nb #bw #bwn #negative #negatif #bergger #monobath #monobain #photographe
"The Phantom of the Opera" turns 100 this week! See what other movies are celebrating milestone anniversaries in Hotchka's Movies by the Decade!
https://hotchka.com/movies-by-the-decade-277
#Hotchka #MoviesByTheDecade #ThePhantomOfTheOpera #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
Hey, my first post here on Mastodon! Allow me to introduce myself! I am a hobbyist LEGO stop motion animator and aspiring storyteller! I like good stories focused on original concept as well as great stories around already established franchises (Sonic, etc.).
I hope to gain some traction on this new platform, and some new attention and feedback on my work as a whole!
#stopmotion #animation #lego #filmmaking #film #sonic #sonicthehedgehog #brickfilm
The Project Hail Mary trailer looks good. I hope they do justice to this story! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYsnngkS_U
"Clue" turns 40 this week! Find out what other movies are celebrating milestone anniversaries in Hotchka's Movies by the Decade.
https://hotchka.com/movies-by-the-decade-281
#Hotchka #MoviesByTheDecade #ClueTheMovie #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
My #Introduction.
I talk about life in #CambridgeMA and #Boston, #engineering, #science, #radios (#SDR, #HAM, #LoRa, #MeshCore), #pinball, #film, retro computers/video games, and more.
I collect #art, #LaserDiscs, study #horology, visit museums (The Met, MFA, Harvard Art #Museum) and support my local #library.
I read #poetry and books on #architecture, #design, and #urbanism.
I walk or take public #transit everywhere.
I practice #permacomputing and self-hosting, running #BSD where I can.
Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
https://disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-be-allowed-to-buy-warner-discovery/
#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics
MOVIE REVIEW: "THE HOUSEMAID" - IN THEATERS
'The Housemaid' is 2025's best '90s movie.
https://hotchka.com/the-housemaid-review
#TheHousemaid #Lionsgate #MovieReview #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
Favorite old movies that hold up:
Knife In the Water
Rope (Hitchcock)
Slaughterhouse 5
Harold & Maude
Proteus (2003 South African)
Shallow Grave
Moonstruck
Chinatown
Cabaret
Brazil
ZOO (a zed & two naughts, Greenaway)
Bliss (1985 Australian)
Head On (1998 Australian)
Bright Young Things
Bent (1997, w/Mick Jagger)
La Reine Margot (period piece)
Harder but worth it:
La Dolce Vita
Fellini Satyricon
Clockwork Orange
Nashville (Altman)
Feel free to add your own 20y+ films.
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New Projector Short! Sunray: Fallen Soldier is a movie made by and starring ex-Royal Marines Commandos. As you expect, all the action stuff is accurate and pretty good. The dramatic side of it, trying to tackle veterans and their PTSD, not so much. #film https://www.youtube.com/shorts/On6rIiQJCFo
James Gunn's new "Superman" film debuts next week. "While the likes of Batman and Wolverine are popular because they break the rules, Superman has to be a law-abiding, upstanding all-American Mr. Nice Guy," Nicholas Barber writes. But that hasn't always been the case for Man of Steel. Read more from @BBCNews:
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National Film Registry announces 25 films selected for preservation, including "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Dirty Dancing", "Spy Kids" and "Beverly Hills Cop".
https://www.hotchkaplus.com/2024/12/national-film-registry-2024.html
#NationalFilmRegistry #FilmPreservation #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
finished watching Nosferatu 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
Maybe, if I cared about any of the characters, I could appreciate everything this movie is excellent at. But I didn't and I couldn't.
Or maybe not, maybe I didn't care because I'm too tired of remakes and new takes and retellings and the same thing under another perspective or whatever excuse producers use this week to hide their fear of not making their ROI.
Fuck you, suits, I watched this for Eggers and Skarsgård, because I like them, because they're current, there was no need to squeeze the past yet again.
Minus too many stars because you're cowards.
#film #BillSkarsgard #Skarsgård #Nosferatu #RobertEggers #Petyr
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