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◡◶▿ Rotting the Image: 37 micro-essays on cinematography
🗂️ A hyperlinked guide to creating the odour of your movie's look.
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🎥 In autumn 2023, over 12 weeks, I posted 37 micro-essays on the life, death, architecture, respiratory system, materiality & otherworldliness of an appropriately-pungent cinematographic image.
Here is an annotated index. Pick the micro-essay that calls to you …and off you go.
Reposts appreciated!
Here is an annotated index. Pick the micro-essay that calls to you …and off you go.
Reposts appreciated!
"When the performance finishes, Charles struggles to even leave the stage. Wandering around, looking for something he’s dropped, oblivious to the humming audience."
◡◶▿ TIME08 | Bubble time
🏔️ Climbing the same mountain every Tuesday night: the stagnant time of Boris Lehman's debut movie. Plus: cute buttons. Final class of term. | New Systems of Time Week 8
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December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"When the performance finishes, Charles struggles to even leave the stage. Wandering around, looking for something he’s dropped, oblivious to the humming audience."
I choose to believe Steve Tiplady is related to the Jonty Tiplady who was recently unmasked as the puppetmaster behind angelicism01.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I choose to believe Steve Tiplady is related to the Jonty Tiplady who was recently unmasked as the puppetmaster behind angelicism01.
"The physics of the image volume can and must be engineered from scratch. Most filmmakers copy over the physical laws from the discarded source world.
"They install them in their image volume with only minor, unnoticeable alterations for convenience and the purposes of conventional film grammar."
"They install them in their image volume with only minor, unnoticeable alterations for convenience and the purposes of conventional film grammar."
◡◶▿ ROTT03 | Volumes
🥡 A pretend space full of things the filmmaker has photographed or conjured. Scorsese and Waters talk home movies. Almodovar doesn't. | Rotting the Image Week 03
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December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"The physics of the image volume can and must be engineered from scratch. Most filmmakers copy over the physical laws from the discarded source world.
"They install them in their image volume with only minor, unnoticeable alterations for convenience and the purposes of conventional film grammar."
"They install them in their image volume with only minor, unnoticeable alterations for convenience and the purposes of conventional film grammar."
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In 1969 Roland Barthes drew up a list of ten reasons why he imagined that he wrote. Here, to gratify or irritate you, is number seven:
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
In 1969 Roland Barthes drew up a list of ten reasons why he imagined that he wrote. Here, to gratify or irritate you, is number seven:
Pantone 11-404 "Surrender White"
Pantone announces "colour is over"
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Pantone 11-404 "Surrender White"
Pantone announces "colour is over"
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Pantone announces "colour is over"
"The feeling of a Weerasethakul film is weightless, like thought. But the substance is earthly, of human beings as human bodies.
"Even the ghosts and spirits have a kind of body odour."
"Even the ghosts and spirits have a kind of body odour."
◡◶▿ Small sounds
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's quietly noisy surfaces. Plus: an annotated index to our Advanced Amateury module. | Summer sound letter #7
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December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"The feeling of a Weerasethakul film is weightless, like thought. But the substance is earthly, of human beings as human bodies.
"Even the ghosts and spirits have a kind of body odour."
"Even the ghosts and spirits have a kind of body odour."
The IT department have flagged a security issue that's also a marketing issue.
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The IT department have flagged a security issue that's also a marketing issue.
Bouncy feelgood movie for these dark days.
The Seventh Continent - Der siebente Kontinent 1989 (trailer)
YouTube video by Dmitry Onischenko
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December 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Bouncy feelgood movie for these dark days.
Pootle along the same way for as long as it’s viable.
Gradually amass the goodwill to enjoy a late-career (retirement) renaissance.
Do it a lot more sustainably.
Achieve stardom such as your oeuvre’s limited audience allows.
Fade; occasionally re-materialise on request.
All valid career paths.
Gradually amass the goodwill to enjoy a late-career (retirement) renaissance.
Do it a lot more sustainably.
Achieve stardom such as your oeuvre’s limited audience allows.
Fade; occasionally re-materialise on request.
All valid career paths.
◡◶▿ AMAT11 | Paths
🎥 🏢 Shadow careers, or "quiet self-awarded trans-dimensional promotion" for the amateur filmmaker. A universal basic income for the serious hobbyist. | Advanced Amateury Week 11
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December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Pootle along the same way for as long as it’s viable.
Gradually amass the goodwill to enjoy a late-career (retirement) renaissance.
Do it a lot more sustainably.
Achieve stardom such as your oeuvre’s limited audience allows.
Fade; occasionally re-materialise on request.
All valid career paths.
Gradually amass the goodwill to enjoy a late-career (retirement) renaissance.
Do it a lot more sustainably.
Achieve stardom such as your oeuvre’s limited audience allows.
Fade; occasionally re-materialise on request.
All valid career paths.
I get that Notting Hill was just inside the '90s and technically ineligible, but no 'Love, Actually'? Really, Quentin?
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I get that Notting Hill was just inside the '90s and technically ineligible, but no 'Love, Actually'? Really, Quentin?
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"Who will ask Barbara Hammer, Kathleen Collins, Kira Muratova, and Sara Gómez for their lists?" www.anothergaze.com/elena-gorfin...
Against Lists - Another Gaze
Lists of films will not save you. Lists of films will not save films. Lists of films will not reorganise...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"Who will ask Barbara Hammer, Kathleen Collins, Kira Muratova, and Sara Gómez for their lists?" www.anothergaze.com/elena-gorfin...
And here's this week's newsletter's OST.
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And here's this week's newsletter's OST.
I see Mangione is sizzling in court again
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I see Mangione is sizzling in court again
My 2009 mumblecore musical "It's Nick's Birthday" is playing on the European Short Film Network's streamy platform until December 7th. "Do with that what you will."
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thisisshort.filmchief.com/hub/section/...
THIS IS SHORT
THIS IS SHORT
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December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My 2009 mumblecore musical "It's Nick's Birthday" is playing on the European Short Film Network's streamy platform until December 7th. "Do with that what you will."
thisisshort.filmchief.com/hub/section/...
thisisshort.filmchief.com/hub/section/...
"In both life and art, definition is rarely constant. It shifts, depending on culture, diet, the weather, and the company you keep.
The filmmaker may imbue the different elements of her movie with the freedom or the curse of variable definition as they flourish or rot in time."
The filmmaker may imbue the different elements of her movie with the freedom or the curse of variable definition as they flourish or rot in time."
◡◶▿ ROTT11 | Definition
💭 Where does your movie fit in the gloop matrix? Plus: how to define "experimental film"; The Stone Tape on the big screen. | Rotting the Image Week 11
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December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"In both life and art, definition is rarely constant. It shifts, depending on culture, diet, the weather, and the company you keep.
The filmmaker may imbue the different elements of her movie with the freedom or the curse of variable definition as they flourish or rot in time."
The filmmaker may imbue the different elements of her movie with the freedom or the curse of variable definition as they flourish or rot in time."
Reposted by Graeme Cole | Unfound Peoples Videotechnic ◡◶▿
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
All writers should be doing this.
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
All writers should be doing this.
"Most of a play is not a show going on but a rehearsal percolating in evenly lit rooms. For most of Don’t Stagnate’s 86 minutes, the subjects are trapped in ambient leisure time. Preserved in the amber of Tuesday night hobby club lighting."
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Most of a play is not a show going on but a rehearsal percolating in evenly lit rooms. For most of Don’t Stagnate’s 86 minutes, the subjects are trapped in ambient leisure time. Preserved in the amber of Tuesday night hobby club lighting."
Reposted by Graeme Cole | Unfound Peoples Videotechnic ◡◶▿
#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 1 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Teshigahara's arresting visual style of extreme depth of focus, immaculate detail & graceful eroticism in WOMAN OF THE DUNES (35mm) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 1 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Teshigahara's arresting visual style of extreme depth of focus, immaculate detail & graceful eroticism in WOMAN OF THE DUNES (35mm) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...
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Found Footage Magazine launches its new - now fully open access - issue!
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ISSUE #11 – Found Footage Magazine
December 2025 ISSN: 2462-2885 Online Edition | Full Open Access English Contributors Issue #11: Jiří Anger, Alejandro Bachmann, Michael Betancourt, Donald Brackett, Pamela Breda, Marie-Pierre Burquier...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Found Footage Magazine launches its new - now fully open access - issue!
foundfootagemagazine.com/online-issue...
foundfootagemagazine.com/online-issue...
Freshly dropped for filmmakers:
◡◶▿ TIME08 | Bubble time
🏔️ Climbing the same mountain every Tuesday night: the stagnant time of Boris Lehman's debut movie. Plus: cute buttons. Final class of term. | New Systems of Time Week 8
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December 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Freshly dropped for filmmakers:
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
E.g.,
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
E.g.,