Sarah Dean
@savdean.bsky.social
working-class film writer and programmer, baby-scholar researching queer and trans film aesthetics, slowly waking up
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Sarah Dean
@savdean.bsky.social
· May 31
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
digital copy available via EBSCO's Film and Television Index
Reposted by Sarah Dean
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
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
September 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
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.
September 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
richmix.org.uk/events/belon...
@fringefilmfest.bsky.social
richmix.org.uk/events/belon...
(be)longings - Rich Mix
Sentimentality, yearnings, and romance bloom across stories of companionship and community. These rhythms run through journeys of self-discovery, missed connections, sapphic staring competitions, and ...
richmix.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
richmix.org.uk/events/belon...
@fringefilmfest.bsky.social
richmix.org.uk/events/belon...
Reposted by Sarah Dean
🚨 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 ⬇️
www.fringefilmfest.com/festival-pro...
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 ⬇️
www.fringefilmfest.com/festival-pro...
FESTIVALPROGRAMME
www.fringefilmfest.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚨 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 ⬇️
www.fringefilmfest.com/festival-pro...
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 ⬇️
www.fringefilmfest.com/festival-pro...
Reposted by Sarah Dean
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...
August 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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...
I will be delivering a paper at @rolesbham.bsky.social on Monday about trans spatialities and temporalities in the unlikely locus of the laundrette 💜 🏳️⚧️ 🧺
Reminder that registration for our conference is now open 🥳 Go to tinyurl.com/ROLES-2025 to register and join us for a wonderful day of presentations!
June 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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.
a man in a tan shirt looks up at a tree
ALT: a man in a tan shirt looks up at a tree
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June 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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.
May 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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.
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
digital copy available via EBSCO's Film and Television Index
May 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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
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:
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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:
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
April 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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:
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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:
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Enjoyed presenting my research on the shift towards trans autoethnographies in non-fiction filmmaking and trans archival practices for #baftss2025
March 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Enjoyed presenting my research on the shift towards trans autoethnographies in non-fiction filmmaking and trans archival practices for #baftss2025
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!
conference on Global Aesthetics next week, a right of passage and an honour!
March 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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!
conference on Global Aesthetics next week, a right of passage and an honour!
Tonally incoherent week of film viewing
March 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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:
March 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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 🎀
boxd.it/Ebxgk
boxd.it/Ebxgk
Girlhood Under the Male Gaze 🎀
In this list of films the male gaze is prevalent either textually, extra-textually, or both. Girlhood is therefore how girls are seen by males and how their habits, fascinations, routines, and collect...
boxd.it
March 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Made a lil Letterboxd list for films that exemplify when girlhood is constructed through the male-gaze 🎀
boxd.it/Ebxgk
boxd.it/Ebxgk
We’re giving, “u k hun?” over here
February 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We’re giving, “u k hun?” over here
Ahh I will be delivering my research at a conference in March. Any advice on this is appreciated!!
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ahh I will be delivering my research at a conference in March. Any advice on this is appreciated!!
What do you mean I have a headache? I’ve only had three consecutive cups of tea.
a black and white photo of a man drinking a cup of tea
Alt: a black and white photo of a man drinking a cup of tea
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January 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What do you mean I have a headache? I’ve only had three consecutive cups of tea.
study for a portrait (1952): the curtain at the height of a greasy spoon window really works for me
January 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
study for a portrait (1952): the curtain at the height of a greasy spoon window really works for me
Gave myself a 1am anxiety attack the other day when overthinking the lyrics to Wicked’s ‘Dancing Through Life’
January 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Gave myself a 1am anxiety attack the other day when overthinking the lyrics to Wicked’s ‘Dancing Through Life’
Reposted by Sarah Dean
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
an animated image with the words did you say free stuff
ALT: an animated image with the words did you say free stuff
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September 16, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
Nosferatu (2024) is very body-fluid forward film. This thesis shall look at Nosferatu in relation to Hippocrates four humors…
January 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Nosferatu (2024) is very body-fluid forward film. This thesis shall look at Nosferatu in relation to Hippocrates four humors…
Having an existential crisis in the Lewisham Shopping Centre branch of Chopstix. Merry Christmas!
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Having an existential crisis in the Lewisham Shopping Centre branch of Chopstix. Merry Christmas!
I adore how It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) depicts its angels.
Clarence has waited 200 years for his wings, he’s reading Tom Sawyer, yet all we see is disembodied voices flowing from the stars.
Clarence has waited 200 years for his wings, he’s reading Tom Sawyer, yet all we see is disembodied voices flowing from the stars.
December 18, 2024 at 10:45 PM
I adore how It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) depicts its angels.
Clarence has waited 200 years for his wings, he’s reading Tom Sawyer, yet all we see is disembodied voices flowing from the stars.
Clarence has waited 200 years for his wings, he’s reading Tom Sawyer, yet all we see is disembodied voices flowing from the stars.