Ali Catterall
@alicatterall.bsky.social
Hello!
Writer & filmmaker - roughly in that order
ADHD
Cat lover
My co-directed debut 'Scala!!! Or the incredibly strange rise & fall of the world’s wildest cinema & how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos & misfits' is now on BFI Player/Blu-ray
Writer & filmmaker - roughly in that order
ADHD
Cat lover
My co-directed debut 'Scala!!! Or the incredibly strange rise & fall of the world’s wildest cinema & how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos & misfits' is now on BFI Player/Blu-ray
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Ali Catterall
@alicatterall.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Laurie Anderson's O Superman. By Chas & Dave.
YouTube video by alicatterall
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One I made earlier. O Superman, by Chas and Dave.
Things that haven't stopped being real just because politicians or the media have stopped talking about them.
1) Brexit damage
2) Covid / long covid
3) The cost of living
1) Brexit damage
2) Covid / long covid
3) The cost of living
February 17, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Things that haven't stopped being real just because politicians or the media have stopped talking about them.
1) Brexit damage
2) Covid / long covid
3) The cost of living
1) Brexit damage
2) Covid / long covid
3) The cost of living
Here's a painting from 1896 I'm seeing pop up quite frequently now. BlueSky thinks it shouid be censored, so I've appealed. And in a meta kinda way (that's meta the concept, not "Meta" the company), its full title translates as "Truth emerging from her well, armed with her whip to chastise humanity"
February 17, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Here's a painting from 1896 I'm seeing pop up quite frequently now. BlueSky thinks it shouid be censored, so I've appealed. And in a meta kinda way (that's meta the concept, not "Meta" the company), its full title translates as "Truth emerging from her well, armed with her whip to chastise humanity"
Reposted by Ali Catterall
SCALA!!! The soundtrack album, out now from Barry Adamson and @muterecords.bsky.social.
February 14, 2026 at 1:36 AM
SCALA!!! The soundtrack album, out now from Barry Adamson and @muterecords.bsky.social.
Please. Stop. Fucking. Raining.
February 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Please. Stop. Fucking. Raining.
SCALA!!! The soundtrack album, out now from Barry Adamson and @muterecords.bsky.social.
February 14, 2026 at 1:36 AM
SCALA!!! The soundtrack album, out now from Barry Adamson and @muterecords.bsky.social.
My new favourite waste of time is picking on AI until it humbly apologises to me. A jolly divertissement until the robots crush me underfoot.
February 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
My new favourite waste of time is picking on AI until it humbly apologises to me. A jolly divertissement until the robots crush me underfoot.
Invasion of the NHS Snatchers.
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Invasion of the NHS Snatchers.
In other news, the BBC is still looking for its spine. It's not entirely sure, but it thinks it might have left it under the settee with a old tape of Songs of Praise.
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
In other news, the BBC is still looking for its spine. It's not entirely sure, but it thinks it might have left it under the settee with a old tape of Songs of Praise.
Reposted by Ali Catterall
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
Small Prophets is ace - and Kimi the Norwegian Forest Cat agrees.
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Small Prophets is ace - and Kimi the Norwegian Forest Cat agrees.
New jokes for the new cold war:
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
February 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
New jokes for the new cold war:
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
Found myself sitting next to Paul Whitehouse and his missis, Mine, at a live panel recording last week, and was fascinated to see him turn to Mine, on mention of Mike Leigh's Nuts in May, and whisper, audibly, "Huge influence on the Fast Show, that."
February 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Found myself sitting next to Paul Whitehouse and his missis, Mine, at a live panel recording last week, and was fascinated to see him turn to Mine, on mention of Mike Leigh's Nuts in May, and whisper, audibly, "Huge influence on the Fast Show, that."
Caught Paradigm Shift at the 180 Studios on its last day - a vast collection of avant-garde installations, including this 1997 work from Pipilotti Rist on female revenge / emancipation (homaged by Beyonce in her Hold Up video). It's just 4 mins long, but I could watch it all day
youtu.be/-gd06ukX-rU
youtu.be/-gd06ukX-rU
Ever is overall Pipiloti
YouTube video by lesya Shats
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February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Caught Paradigm Shift at the 180 Studios on its last day - a vast collection of avant-garde installations, including this 1997 work from Pipilotti Rist on female revenge / emancipation (homaged by Beyonce in her Hold Up video). It's just 4 mins long, but I could watch it all day
youtu.be/-gd06ukX-rU
youtu.be/-gd06ukX-rU
Slightly inappropriate phrases to inadvertently blurt out at your Berlin premiere #1
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Slightly inappropriate phrases to inadvertently blurt out at your Berlin premiere #1
This beautiful Heroes tee-shirt, showing outtakes from the album cover session, is made and sold by the V&A. I need you to know that my dedication is such that I braved temperatures of -3 to pose in it beside Bowie and Iggy's Berlin flat, and outside Hansa Studios, where Heroes was made.
January 31, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This beautiful Heroes tee-shirt, showing outtakes from the album cover session, is made and sold by the V&A. I need you to know that my dedication is such that I braved temperatures of -3 to pose in it beside Bowie and Iggy's Berlin flat, and outside Hansa Studios, where Heroes was made.
Wowee! This just came up completely unprompted on my friend's Spotify :)
January 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Wowee! This just came up completely unprompted on my friend's Spotify :)
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At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
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How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
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The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")