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Dilman Dila
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I Write. I make films. Transmedia artist. My blog @dilman is about my works and life. I daydream a lot and want to be paid for it. Been creating #sff #scifi for […]

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#silentsunday #photography #nofilter
A view of the Osu Castle in Accra, Ghana. The walls are white, and two towers stick up in the middle of the photo, behind some greenery. One tower looks more like a security lookout post, with the top wider than the support (don't know what that thing is called). The ocean is visible on the left side of the image.
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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#silentsunday
A dirt road cuts through greenery, gardens by the roadside in a residential suburb of Kampala. High power lines tower into the sky, and red rooftops peep above the greenery. Big white clouds loiter under the blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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#silentsunday #screenshotsaturday
A still from my most recent film, The Night Dancer. There's tall grass in the foreground, three banana plants in the mid ground, and in the background a mostly clear sky with hints of the evening.
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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For this #screenshotsaturday here is what I've been working on all night (it's now 5am) the music of #thenightdancer as I once again find myself racing against my own set deadlines to have the film ready for screening by Halloween. Yeah, I finished it a couple […]

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Screenshot of Davinci Resolve video editor, showing sound files - audio wave forms very prominent, with audio tracks as well. There is a frame from a video, of an African woman seemingly upside down.
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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#silentsunday #photography
A landscape photograph of a cornfield, with a rolled up bale of hay (I think that is what it is, I may be wrong) in the foreground. A black car, a jeep perhaps, is in the mid ground, and a gray, dull sky fills up most of the upper part of the photo.
October 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I wish I knew the different names of flowers. It seems a bit rude to call them all flowers and not by their name.
#bloomscrolling #bloom
Flowers, the petals are different shades of pink (ah, I think that is pink!) Anyway it has this reddish color with splashes of white, almost like water color painting. There is a bunch of them on a shrub, which shows in the background, out of focus, greenish.
October 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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#silentsunday #bloomscrolling #bloom
A flower with bright yellow petals dominates the frame, and there are droplets of water on it after a rain. There are other flowers on the shrub, which is out of focus in the background, and the evening sky shows.
October 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#silentsunday
A shot through a car's rain smeared windscreen, of a red car driving in the rain, a watercolor-like image. Somewhere in Kampala, Uganda
October 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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So #vfxpeople I won't be continuing with mocap anymore so I'm giving up my Rokoko Smartsuit Pro 1. Included are three textiles (Large, Medium, Small) and a Smart Gloves (still boxed). If you want it please message me, offer what you think is a fair […]

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Three black outfits, made like jumpsuits, laid out on a gray tiled floor.
September 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The moon looked really pretty this evening, at the blue hour, just after sunset and before full dark. It had this orangish color, and for several seconds I thought it was the sun, but it was on the wrong side of the sky so it left me confused. I had to take a […]

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A full moon in the early evening, but had the colors of the sunset. Its the blue hour, the sky is cloudless. There is a wall fence topped with barbed wire in the foreground and red rooftops sticking above greenery behind it. A poor quality phone camera image, which failed to capture the beauty of nature.
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I just found out about #footpathfriday and I couldn't resist showing off the path I walk to work.
A footpath crossing a stream in a swamp, there is a brick in the middle of the water acting as a bridge, and the brownish earth cuts through lush greenery, with tall eucalyptus trees.
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#silentsunday
Sunrise at an airport, the wing of a plane dominates the left third of the image, a tower is in the middle in the far background and the vibrant colors of the rising sun behind it. Clouds obscur the sun but there is a bright spot indicating its position.
August 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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#silentsunday #breakfast
Two soft boiled eggs in a white bowl that has black flower designs. The yolk are like two smooth and oval-ish stones on in the white parts of the egg.
August 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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It's that part of a project where the self-imposed deadline has passed by a month, and you are spending sleepless nights trying to beat the second deadline... My #wip short film #thenightdancer is taking shape. Figuring out mocap took so long, but I hope to […]

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Screenshot of Blender software, showing a clay model of a humanoid figure placed on video footage of an actress whose body is distorted painfully, bent backwards. It's a workbench render to test animation and not the final Cycles render.
August 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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This was some fun, I totally enjoyed the questions after screening two of my short films at #worldcon also quiet an experience to watch films with people on a shared screen online.

#worldcon2025
Screenshot of a page from the Worldcon 2025 schedule, showing a screening of two of my films.
August 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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On Wednesday due to technical issues we couldn't screen my films, at #worldcon but this will now happen on Saturday,

https://seattlein2025.org/program-and-events/schedule/#VIR051

If you are participating in #worldcon2025 here is a chance to see two of my […]

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A poster for a short film, title Little Red Eve, a film by Dilman Dila. A hand comes out of a dark cloud and touches a butterfly with red wings and a red body, with strange markings on its wings indicating it is a genetically modified organism. The butterfly is the reddest thing in the image, which is generally a blue-ish color.
August 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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#silentsunday
Hibiscus tea in a red mug that sits in a hardcover copy of an anthology, Africa Risen. It is on a mahogany wood desk, which is cluttered, a little disorganized. A Pi mouse is beside the biik, and there are cables all over. And in the background is a wooden pencil holder and a paper try.
August 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Me working late into the night, the RGB stuff makes the work seem fun, as if I'm in a club or something.

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To all professionals and retirees in the #vfx industry, join the #vfxpeoplechallenge by posting photos of your work environment (including yourself […]

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Its hard to describe this photo, but it is of a desk with a computer screen on it, some 3D work on the screen, an RGB keyboad glowing, the desktop has blue lights in the background, I'm somewhere in the pic, barely visible.
August 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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#silentsunday #nature #photography
A small hill, made of rocks. There are huge boulders piled together, some standing up. Shrubs grow amid the rocks, and grass grows around the hill, but the vegetation is thin (compared to how thick the vegetation is supposed to be in this part of the tropics), the grass struggling for a green color, though it feels like dry grass. The sky is largely gray.
August 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#silentsunday
A bicycle, painted white, on the veranda of a bar, the street is in the background. There is a bunch of red roses on the hanldebars. Warm lights overhead contrast with the cold blue hour.
July 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Returned home to find a rat had eaten my sofa, and now I can't even relax on it because the whole thing stinks of rat poop.
A gray sofa, with the cloth covers eaten up at the seams and pieces of sponge from the inside are scattered about in a mess.
July 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#silentsunday
A big white building, two floors high, dominates centre stage, it has a red roof and just behind it are two green spires (I think that's what they are called, tall pointy things anyway) perhaps part of a church. It's a blue sky with lots of clouds and dark undersides. Location is Berlin, Alexanderplatz area, just opposite Alte Munze.
July 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Been flying all night, and didn't catch any sleep, so been awake for over 24hrs. First day in Berlin will be full of sleep, yet I wanted to enjoy it in the sun 😭

Then next three days will be full of books and panels and readings at the African Book Festival.
Taken from a just landed plan, whose wing is visible. In the distance is an airport control towey (I think that's what it is) almost silhouette against a rising sun.
July 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Last night I thought I had encountered my first UFO. Turned out to be the moon sneaking out from wherever it goes to hide.
The night sky, with a dash of light looking like a strip of cloud as rhe moon prepares to rise....the ground is a deep shadow,
July 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Didn't know I'd ever get such a request, to get paid to humanize the translations of an AI, yet they know my stand on AI. My reply was "why not just pay a human translator?" and they couldn't see why I had issues with using AI. What is disappointing is that […]

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I'm testing out whether I can write in Russian, run it through AI for quick translation, and work with someone to make it sound human-funny, natural, and free from all that awkward robo-language.
July 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM