Zachary Goldkind
@zaccy.bsky.social
Filmmaker. Teacher. Programmer. Marxist pedagogy tying it all together.
Another short of mine, one that is more or less a COVID self-portrait, but I would say it’s really a film about discerning just how dysphoric you really are.
Watch here:
vimeo.com/479337721
Watch here:
vimeo.com/479337721
by Hopper (2020)
A love triangle unfurls between a boy, his head, and their bedroom window. There's an appetite for the sybaritic, just as there happens a queer light, rock…
vimeo.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another short of mine, one that is more or less a COVID self-portrait, but I would say it’s really a film about discerning just how dysphoric you really are.
Watch here:
vimeo.com/479337721
Watch here:
vimeo.com/479337721
Surely all of you Canadian or experimental film people would love to watch a cute landscape film about cultural history collapsing into a mnemonic ephemera?
I’ll be posting my films over the next little while, whenever I get the urge. This is an early short of mine, made of a single, static landscape shot. It’s an erratic piece, because I didn’t want to just remake Gottheim’s Fog Line. I like to call it my juke box musical.
vimeo.com/381732072
vimeo.com/381732072
Blanketed//Cache (2019)
Stillness only exists within the reverbs of our awareness. We can wonder what its relationship to the landscape is, but we've first to ask "How many landscapes…
vimeo.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Surely all of you Canadian or experimental film people would love to watch a cute landscape film about cultural history collapsing into a mnemonic ephemera?
I’ll be posting my films over the next little while, whenever I get the urge. This is an early short of mine, made of a single, static landscape shot. It’s an erratic piece, because I didn’t want to just remake Gottheim’s Fog Line. I like to call it my juke box musical.
vimeo.com/381732072
vimeo.com/381732072
Blanketed//Cache (2019)
Stillness only exists within the reverbs of our awareness. We can wonder what its relationship to the landscape is, but we've first to ask "How many landscapes…
vimeo.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’ll be posting my films over the next little while, whenever I get the urge. This is an early short of mine, made of a single, static landscape shot. It’s an erratic piece, because I didn’t want to just remake Gottheim’s Fog Line. I like to call it my juke box musical.
vimeo.com/381732072
vimeo.com/381732072
I need 8k to make a feature film. Who wants to hop on as a producer and help get the grant? 🫡
February 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I need 8k to make a feature film. Who wants to hop on as a producer and help get the grant? 🫡
The stupidity of our quotidian has become overwhelmingly comprehensible and incessantly maddening.
Kind of amazing that the government feels this announcement is some sort of a flex. #BikeTO
news.ontario.ca/en/release/1... #ONpoli
news.ontario.ca/en/release/1... #ONpoli
January 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The stupidity of our quotidian has become overwhelmingly comprehensible and incessantly maddening.
Everyone’s yelling to learn Chinese, but I’m just on my 11th day of regaining Hebrew via Duo… Yiddish definitely ones afterwards, but maybe I learn Chinese alongside Arabic? That won’t be difficult… two new alphabets? A breeze.
January 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Everyone’s yelling to learn Chinese, but I’m just on my 11th day of regaining Hebrew via Duo… Yiddish definitely ones afterwards, but maybe I learn Chinese alongside Arabic? That won’t be difficult… two new alphabets? A breeze.
Nickel Boys was, certainly, an expression of historical resuscitation— most acutely felt in the last moment of inferred spiritual exhumation — but its narrative confines grinds the momentum of its montage to a halt, containing, very tightly, the associational faculties of its archival essay…
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nickel Boys was, certainly, an expression of historical resuscitation— most acutely felt in the last moment of inferred spiritual exhumation — but its narrative confines grinds the momentum of its montage to a halt, containing, very tightly, the associational faculties of its archival essay…
Side/Walk/Shuttle was far more languid than I had anticipated it being. Catches you off guard in the relative patience it upholds its malleability with, almost beyond confident in its optical illusions, the machine eye a fixed and determinable tool, where everything is soft clay.
January 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Side/Walk/Shuttle was far more languid than I had anticipated it being. Catches you off guard in the relative patience it upholds its malleability with, almost beyond confident in its optical illusions, the machine eye a fixed and determinable tool, where everything is soft clay.
Filmmakers whose work explicitly articulates a political perspective, willfully attending Berlinale this year, are either obtuse, not worth their salt, or, simply, ache with the disappointing pangs of careerism. A ceasefire does not end organized calls for boycott.
January 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Filmmakers whose work explicitly articulates a political perspective, willfully attending Berlinale this year, are either obtuse, not worth their salt, or, simply, ache with the disappointing pangs of careerism. A ceasefire does not end organized calls for boycott.
On top of favourites, I have a question: Did anyone watch or make any radical fiction films in the year of 2024 that they’d like to share?
December 31, 2024 at 6:13 PM
On top of favourites, I have a question: Did anyone watch or make any radical fiction films in the year of 2024 that they’d like to share?
Not counting commercial release dates, Top 15 films of 2024:
1. exergue — on documenta 14
2. Caught by the Tides
3. Scenarios
4. Smile 2
5. Drama 1882
6. Juror #2
7. Happyend
8. Iyad
9. Trap
10. The Diary of a Sky
11. A Fidai Film
12. The Shrouds
13. Direct Action
14. Chime
15. Yintah
1. exergue — on documenta 14
2. Caught by the Tides
3. Scenarios
4. Smile 2
5. Drama 1882
6. Juror #2
7. Happyend
8. Iyad
9. Trap
10. The Diary of a Sky
11. A Fidai Film
12. The Shrouds
13. Direct Action
14. Chime
15. Yintah
December 31, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Not counting commercial release dates, Top 15 films of 2024:
1. exergue — on documenta 14
2. Caught by the Tides
3. Scenarios
4. Smile 2
5. Drama 1882
6. Juror #2
7. Happyend
8. Iyad
9. Trap
10. The Diary of a Sky
11. A Fidai Film
12. The Shrouds
13. Direct Action
14. Chime
15. Yintah
1. exergue — on documenta 14
2. Caught by the Tides
3. Scenarios
4. Smile 2
5. Drama 1882
6. Juror #2
7. Happyend
8. Iyad
9. Trap
10. The Diary of a Sky
11. A Fidai Film
12. The Shrouds
13. Direct Action
14. Chime
15. Yintah
1975,
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Barry Lyndon
- Mirror
- Nashville
- India Song
- The Travelling Players
- Welfare
- Moses and Aaron
- Atman
- Numero deux
- Harvest: 3000 years
- Four Women
- Two Solutions for One Problem
- Euridice BA 2037
- Natsik Hunting
Good year
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Barry Lyndon
- Mirror
- Nashville
- India Song
- The Travelling Players
- Welfare
- Moses and Aaron
- Atman
- Numero deux
- Harvest: 3000 years
- Four Women
- Two Solutions for One Problem
- Euridice BA 2037
- Natsik Hunting
Good year
Best Films of 1975
1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
2. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
3. Nashville
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. Night Moves
1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
2. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
3. Nashville
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. Night Moves
December 6, 2024 at 8:33 PM
1975,
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Barry Lyndon
- Mirror
- Nashville
- India Song
- The Travelling Players
- Welfare
- Moses and Aaron
- Atman
- Numero deux
- Harvest: 3000 years
- Four Women
- Two Solutions for One Problem
- Euridice BA 2037
- Natsik Hunting
Good year
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Barry Lyndon
- Mirror
- Nashville
- India Song
- The Travelling Players
- Welfare
- Moses and Aaron
- Atman
- Numero deux
- Harvest: 3000 years
- Four Women
- Two Solutions for One Problem
- Euridice BA 2037
- Natsik Hunting
Good year
Fascinating not to have seen any discourse regarding assisted suicide or Syria as I scroll. Perhaps it’s my account’s minute engagement, but the stark distinctions provoke a strange internal whiplash regarding how I affectively perceive the apps.
December 1, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Fascinating not to have seen any discourse regarding assisted suicide or Syria as I scroll. Perhaps it’s my account’s minute engagement, but the stark distinctions provoke a strange internal whiplash regarding how I affectively perceive the apps.
Best films of the decade thus far, but I’d appreciate some recommendations for accessible experimental work you feel might have opened something up these last few years
November 30, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Best films of the decade thus far, but I’d appreciate some recommendations for accessible experimental work you feel might have opened something up these last few years
I beleive it nearly impossible to make good, short fiction cinema (<20min). I’ve seen thousands of shorts and I’m convinced it’s the hardest form to be working in. Annemarie Jacir’s LIKE TWENTY IMPOSSIBLES is a staggering achievement…
November 26, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I beleive it nearly impossible to make good, short fiction cinema (<20min). I’ve seen thousands of shorts and I’m convinced it’s the hardest form to be working in. Annemarie Jacir’s LIKE TWENTY IMPOSSIBLES is a staggering achievement…
Neocons inadvertently(?) going after one another by affirming isolationist (minus philosemetic bullshit) policy is genuinely pretty funny. More woe for us, but at least there’s levity?
November 26, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Neocons inadvertently(?) going after one another by affirming isolationist (minus philosemetic bullshit) policy is genuinely pretty funny. More woe for us, but at least there’s levity?
Canada’s political climate will, and I don’t see any alternative, obliterate the arts and culture sector. Austerity will decimate our public infrastructure and it will be up to the courts to decide our fate. Might anyone have any ideas?
November 25, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Canada’s political climate will, and I don’t see any alternative, obliterate the arts and culture sector. Austerity will decimate our public infrastructure and it will be up to the courts to decide our fate. Might anyone have any ideas?
I wonder with all the bullshit happening across the political bodies of AmeriCanada, how much longer it will take before there’s a cohesive policy that sees anti-colonial protest as illegal, churning such discourse into threats against both nation state and its allies. IHRA already threatens such.
November 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I wonder with all the bullshit happening across the political bodies of AmeriCanada, how much longer it will take before there’s a cohesive policy that sees anti-colonial protest as illegal, churning such discourse into threats against both nation state and its allies. IHRA already threatens such.
Wondering about individuals’ processes in analysis: how one relates form and narrative, how one calibrates one’s reading through the ever-troubled synthesis of image (one level of film-text) and content (another level of film-text), involving the soundscape and contexts of production throughout…
November 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Wondering about individuals’ processes in analysis: how one relates form and narrative, how one calibrates one’s reading through the ever-troubled synthesis of image (one level of film-text) and content (another level of film-text), involving the soundscape and contexts of production throughout…
Will share my brief piece on Smile 2 here, a work thats affective registers continuously reaffirm the lack of agency we have against an onslaught of despair and in its formal play configured a system out of such violence: boxd.it/7JOI5P
A ★★★★½ review of Smile 2 (2024)
A reenactment: the kind of reflexive adaptation that brings to the fore both an indisputable consideration of a contemporary ethos, as well as its coupled aesthetic qualifier. First there is the beat ...
boxd.it
November 14, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Will share my brief piece on Smile 2 here, a work thats affective registers continuously reaffirm the lack of agency we have against an onslaught of despair and in its formal play configured a system out of such violence: boxd.it/7JOI5P
If you don’t boycott Berlin this year, you’re not worth your salt.
November 12, 2024 at 7:05 PM
If you don’t boycott Berlin this year, you’re not worth your salt.
“Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative.”
I’ve been recalling this quote across my reading of Freire, and it continually reconstitutes itself upon further scrutiny of the nation-state and its educational institutions as being an extension of centrifugal necropolitcs.
I’ve been recalling this quote across my reading of Freire, and it continually reconstitutes itself upon further scrutiny of the nation-state and its educational institutions as being an extension of centrifugal necropolitcs.
November 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
“Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative.”
I’ve been recalling this quote across my reading of Freire, and it continually reconstitutes itself upon further scrutiny of the nation-state and its educational institutions as being an extension of centrifugal necropolitcs.
I’ve been recalling this quote across my reading of Freire, and it continually reconstitutes itself upon further scrutiny of the nation-state and its educational institutions as being an extension of centrifugal necropolitcs.
Once again needing to curate a balance between film and politics on another social media platform…… not fun. I thought I was done with this in 2015.
November 12, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Once again needing to curate a balance between film and politics on another social media platform…… not fun. I thought I was done with this in 2015.