James Leo Cahill
@jamesleocahill.bsky.social
Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
What level of empty gesture is it to return a diploma to a corrupt university? Looking at you UNC.
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
What level of empty gesture is it to return a diploma to a corrupt university? Looking at you UNC.
Raoul Dufy gets it. Collection of the @centrepompidou.bsky.social AM 1979-312.
February 13, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Raoul Dufy gets it. Collection of the @centrepompidou.bsky.social AM 1979-312.
Oh dang, now needing to decide whether I attend Georges Didi-Huberman's seminar at INHA or head to the Cinémathèque for the Pascal Bonitzer retrospective. (I know Didi's seminars post on YouTube but it's fun to attend...)
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Oh dang, now needing to decide whether I attend Georges Didi-Huberman's seminar at INHA or head to the Cinémathèque for the Pascal Bonitzer retrospective. (I know Didi's seminars post on YouTube but it's fun to attend...)
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Congrats Aurore! Can’t wait to read your book. Peeps in Chicago don’t miss out!
For people in the Chicago area: Please join Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social and me on March 4 at the Seminary Co-op @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social for a conversation about my book ARCHIVING THE PAST (University of California Press). www.semcoop.com/event/aurore...
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Congrats Aurore! Can’t wait to read your book. Peeps in Chicago don’t miss out!
The daintiness of the wolfman.
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The daintiness of the wolfman.
I cannot tell you (though I will try) how much fun this was and how grateful I am to have been invited to program and talk about Zéro de conduite! Thanks to all who attended, especially the crew @mediaarchives-uoft.bsky.social for everything you do.
A huge big thank you to everyone who came to our Pop-Up Cinematheque screening of Zero de Conduite! And an especially big thanks to @jamesleocahill.bsky.social for an incredible talk that perfectly set the context for Jean Vigo's stunning film! So much to learn from this anarchic gem of a film!
February 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I cannot tell you (though I will try) how much fun this was and how grateful I am to have been invited to program and talk about Zéro de conduite! Thanks to all who attended, especially the crew @mediaarchives-uoft.bsky.social for everything you do.
In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking...
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www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...
Le temps de chien: Stray exposures in shadow of Vesuvius
In 1870 Giuseppe Fiorelli and his team of archaeologists produced a plaster cast of a bubble in the earth in the ruins of Pompeii, revealed to be a dog, which they designated watchdog of the House of ...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...
Je vous dis merde! 1933 - 1943 - 2026. Come help us summon up some young devils this Monday at 6pm with a free screening of Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite. Free but seating is limited so click the link below for tickets.
February 6, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Je vous dis merde! 1933 - 1943 - 2026. Come help us summon up some young devils this Monday at 6pm with a free screening of Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite. Free but seating is limited so click the link below for tickets.
If we're friends and both in Paris on the 16th, let's go see Uncle Didi.
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
If we're friends and both in Paris on the 16th, let's go see Uncle Didi.
This looks like fun! An AI company encouraging students to record their professors' lectures in exchange for a transcripts. We are going to be forced to speak in comical accents if we don't want our ideas stripmined by third parties.
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM
This looks like fun! An AI company encouraging students to record their professors' lectures in exchange for a transcripts. We are going to be forced to speak in comical accents if we don't want our ideas stripmined by third parties.
I'm pretty sure the democratic party's whole opposition plan is counting on chloresterol to do its work by 2028.
February 2, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I'm pretty sure the democratic party's whole opposition plan is counting on chloresterol to do its work by 2028.
Few films have taken childhood, dreams, freedom, and rebellion more seriously, which is to say, with more ferocious joy and outrage. À bas la tyrannie. Vive les enfants terribles!
ZERO DE CONDUITE- a surrealist portrayal of rebellion in a boarding school - was banned for years after its release! Don't miss your chance to see this influential film on 16mm, featuring a contextual talk by Professor @jamesleocahill.bsky.social ! Feb. 9, at 6pm. Info & tix: go.utlib.ca/popup2
February 2, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Few films have taken childhood, dreams, freedom, and rebellion more seriously, which is to say, with more ferocious joy and outrage. À bas la tyrannie. Vive les enfants terribles!
this post to SCMS pedagogy award pipeline?
I solved this problem by distributing vape pens in all my large film classes. We watched Jia Zhanke’s The World this week in a haze of attentive if bloodshot eyes.
On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday.
archive.ph/GFWzW
archive.ph/GFWzW
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
this post to SCMS pedagogy award pipeline?
💯 though there we also redistribute everything in an act of communal luxury. I had a first year ask me about this film three weeks ago and I was forced to recite lengthy Lafargue passages on the right to laziness.
does it work for Peter Watkins's The Commune?
January 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
💯 though there we also redistribute everything in an act of communal luxury. I had a first year ask me about this film three weeks ago and I was forced to recite lengthy Lafargue passages on the right to laziness.
I solved this problem by distributing vape pens in all my large film classes. We watched Jia Zhanke’s The World this week in a haze of attentive if bloodshot eyes.
On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday.
archive.ph/GFWzW
archive.ph/GFWzW
January 31, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I solved this problem by distributing vape pens in all my large film classes. We watched Jia Zhanke’s The World this week in a haze of attentive if bloodshot eyes.
She loved fruit wine, we all loved her.
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
She loved fruit wine, we all loved her.
Caught up and interviewed the one person who bought a ticket for the London screening of Melania documentary. They were confused as they believed based upon the poster that it was a Frank Delfino/Hamburglar biopic.
January 30, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Caught up and interviewed the one person who bought a ticket for the London screening of Melania documentary. They were confused as they believed based upon the poster that it was a Frank Delfino/Hamburglar biopic.
First film critic to file the review: Melania : I really don’t care. Do you? Wins all of film criticism for 2026.
January 30, 2026 at 4:55 PM
First film critic to file the review: Melania : I really don’t care. Do you? Wins all of film criticism for 2026.
Find somebody who looks at you the way Jia Zhangke looks at green walls in The World.
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Find somebody who looks at you the way Jia Zhangke looks at green walls in The World.
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Registration is now open for our Pop-Up Cinematheque screening of Jean Vigo's dreamy ZERO DE CONDUITE (1933) presented by @jamesleocahill.bsky.social on Mon., Feb. 9 at 6pm. Go to go.utlib.ca/popup2 to get your free tickets!
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Registration is now open for our Pop-Up Cinematheque screening of Jean Vigo's dreamy ZERO DE CONDUITE (1933) presented by @jamesleocahill.bsky.social on Mon., Feb. 9 at 6pm. Go to go.utlib.ca/popup2 to get your free tickets!
This is how I kept up with the Smurfs after NBC cancelled them.
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is how I kept up with the Smurfs after NBC cancelled them.