Mandy Bemis
@mjbemis.bsky.social
Filmmaker, writer and actor. My newest short film, The Devil and the Ghost, is on Vimeo and YouTube.
she/they
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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I was very inebriated last night watching my favorite movie with the two people I love the most in this world and I made the best joke I will ever mutter out of my stupid mouth and I am so grateful that there were witnesses to that magic.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I was very inebriated last night watching my favorite movie with the two people I love the most in this world and I made the best joke I will ever mutter out of my stupid mouth and I am so grateful that there were witnesses to that magic.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
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monogamists and heterosexuals are banned from making movies til they chill out a bit
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
monogamists and heterosexuals are banned from making movies til they chill out a bit
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It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
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November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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Forgot how the marketing for The Fabelmans was like "a heartfelt semi-autobiographical story of the transformative power of the movies" and the movie's actual plot is "here follow the crimes of my Sexual Mother"
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Forgot how the marketing for The Fabelmans was like "a heartfelt semi-autobiographical story of the transformative power of the movies" and the movie's actual plot is "here follow the crimes of my Sexual Mother"
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Trying to dust off the writer's block and make stuff for public consumption again.
I wrote a poem for @mjbemis.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy.
I wrote a poem for @mjbemis.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy.
Burden of Proof
For Mandy
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November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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8 Dem Senators last night
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
8 Dem Senators last night
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. I work in harm reduction, and art vs. activism are often regarded as though they’re at odds. This is a beautiful story about what’s possible when the two intersect.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. I work in harm reduction, and art vs. activism are often regarded as though they’re at odds. This is a beautiful story about what’s possible when the two intersect.
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it's Cosmo's moon
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
it's Cosmo's moon
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Something I think doesn’t really get talked about when it comes to cosmic horror is that it’s a safe way to ask questions about belief and why the mere existence of a higher power, no matter how real, is enough for people to justify being unimaginably cruel
Carpenter’s Mouth of Madness tackles head on the evil in believing in Revelation. Rapture is selfish, sociopathic. People as inward fanatics assured in faith, justified in whatever cruelty it demands of them, because they “know” how it ends. Let the world burn. “I’ve read to the end.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Something I think doesn’t really get talked about when it comes to cosmic horror is that it’s a safe way to ask questions about belief and why the mere existence of a higher power, no matter how real, is enough for people to justify being unimaginably cruel
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Good morning, faggots
Here's the opening credits sequence of VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)
Let's all go out there and suck today's dick, mmkay?
Here's the opening credits sequence of VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)
Let's all go out there and suck today's dick, mmkay?
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Good morning, faggots
Here's the opening credits sequence of VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)
Let's all go out there and suck today's dick, mmkay?
Here's the opening credits sequence of VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)
Let's all go out there and suck today's dick, mmkay?
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You need to weather the storm diva. Diva you must
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You need to weather the storm diva. Diva you must
Record store clerk (noticing my Princess Bride pin): “As you wish.” I said that to my ex-girlfriend as we were breaking up.
Me: Whoa.
Clerk: Yeah, it was brutal.
Me: I hope it was cathartic for you, at least.
Clerk: It felt amazing. Have a good day, ma’am.
Me: Whoa.
Clerk: Yeah, it was brutal.
Me: I hope it was cathartic for you, at least.
Clerk: It felt amazing. Have a good day, ma’am.
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Record store clerk (noticing my Princess Bride pin): “As you wish.” I said that to my ex-girlfriend as we were breaking up.
Me: Whoa.
Clerk: Yeah, it was brutal.
Me: I hope it was cathartic for you, at least.
Clerk: It felt amazing. Have a good day, ma’am.
Me: Whoa.
Clerk: Yeah, it was brutal.
Me: I hope it was cathartic for you, at least.
Clerk: It felt amazing. Have a good day, ma’am.
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We love you Miss Major. We love you forever.
October 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We love you Miss Major. We love you forever.
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Poster king. AI could never.
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Poster king. AI could never.
The Devil and the Ghost, our queer Halloween romcom, is perfect spooky season viewing. It’s streaming for free on Vimeo.
vimeo.com/951086486
vimeo.com/951086486
The Devil and the Ghost
Anything can happen on Halloween. A Bebeaubonne Film Starring: Victor Viero, Eisa Janis, Diana Porter, Thomas Campbell, Michael J. Blunt, Tyler Robert Girard,…
vimeo.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Devil and the Ghost, our queer Halloween romcom, is perfect spooky season viewing. It’s streaming for free on Vimeo.
vimeo.com/951086486
vimeo.com/951086486
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I've thought a lot about the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex finds out that the droogs he used to rampage with are now policemen
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I've thought a lot about the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex finds out that the droogs he used to rampage with are now policemen
If you see this, QTP with a gif of a vampire that isn’t Dracula
October 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you see this, QTP with a gif of a vampire that isn’t Dracula
The movies that taught me what movies are and can be:
2001
The Shining
Raising Arizona
Blue Velvet
Aliens
Do the Right Thing
The Silence of the Lambs
Halloween
Nashville
Raging Bull
2001
The Shining
Raising Arizona
Blue Velvet
Aliens
Do the Right Thing
The Silence of the Lambs
Halloween
Nashville
Raging Bull
a fun prompt; not necessarily my fave movies but the ones that shaped my understanding of the medium:
Boogie Nights (PTA)
Lost Highway (Lynch)
Hard Boiled (Woo)
Stalker/Solaris (Tarkovsky)
2001 (Kubrick)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
Fallen Angels (WKW)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Boogie Nights (PTA)
Lost Highway (Lynch)
Hard Boiled (Woo)
Stalker/Solaris (Tarkovsky)
2001 (Kubrick)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
Fallen Angels (WKW)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Don't wanna work so decided to zero in on the movies that expanded my understanding/idea of movies...
Hana-bi (Kitano)
La vie de Jésus (Dumont)
Inland Empire (Lynch)
Edvard Munch (Watkins)
Five Dedicated to Ozu (Kiarostami)
Elephant (Clarke)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Miike)
Hana-bi (Kitano)
La vie de Jésus (Dumont)
Inland Empire (Lynch)
Edvard Munch (Watkins)
Five Dedicated to Ozu (Kiarostami)
Elephant (Clarke)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Miike)
September 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The movies that taught me what movies are and can be:
2001
The Shining
Raising Arizona
Blue Velvet
Aliens
Do the Right Thing
The Silence of the Lambs
Halloween
Nashville
Raging Bull
2001
The Shining
Raising Arizona
Blue Velvet
Aliens
Do the Right Thing
The Silence of the Lambs
Halloween
Nashville
Raging Bull
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IT IS TIME! RELEASE DAY IS UPON US! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored w/ Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social IS HERE! Available wherever books are sold via @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social! Thanks for shares & support! 🖤
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September 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
IT IS TIME! RELEASE DAY IS UPON US! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored w/ Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social IS HERE! Available wherever books are sold via @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social! Thanks for shares & support! 🖤
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My kid’s watching Eraserhead with their boyfriend 💕
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My kid’s watching Eraserhead with their boyfriend 💕
I’m just trying to get home.
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’m just trying to get home.
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I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector
September 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector
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thing i run into a lot
(pervert transgender writers out there this is a CALL to ACTION!!!)
(pervert transgender writers out there this is a CALL to ACTION!!!)
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
thing i run into a lot
(pervert transgender writers out there this is a CALL to ACTION!!!)
(pervert transgender writers out there this is a CALL to ACTION!!!)