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Kasia A.
@fibularasa.bsky.social
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Repository for completely useless yet entirely uninteresting information. Archivopteryx. Film Blogger & Cosplayer. Actually Autistic. she/her. 🏳️‍🌈 📽️ ✍️ 🇵🇱 🍉

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Today marks the 102nd anniversary of the premiere of Look Your Best starring Colleen Moore and Antonio Moreno!

You can learn more about this presumed lost silent dramedy in Lost, but Not Forgotten: Look Your Best ('23):

fibularasa.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/l... #silentfilm #lostmedia
Black-and-white still of Colleen Moore in her role of Perla in Look Your Best (a.k.a. The Bitterness of Sweets) Advertisement for the premiere of Look Your Best at the Temple Theater in Detroit, Michigan. Reproduced in Moving Picture World, 9 June 1923.
February 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Kathleen Clifford photographed by Donald Biddle Keyes from Motion Picture Magazine, November 1922

original caption: "A new camera study of Kathleen Clifford who is returning to the films after an absence of several months... Remember when Kathleen used to go in for masculine impersonations?"
January 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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lackadaisy.bsky.social
Posted a little preview up on Patreon, featuring music by @bryanteohmusic.bsky.social with lyrics and vocals by @thequeencryptid.bsky.social, if you want a minor Lackadaisy Season 1 soundtrack spoiler.
Accompanying rough animation here by @smallbu.bsky.social!

patreon.com/Lackadaisy
January 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Professor Marlene L. Daut's Henry Christophe book has been enlightening reading so far, but when I read this passage, my jaw dropped. The article she's citing was written in 1805! 1805!
An article published in Haiti's Political & Commercial Gazette presciently analyzed the broader significance of the changes US-Haitian trade relations underwent under Jefferson. The author [...] wrote that the US would one day ‘occupy a distinguished rank among the masters of the sea.’ Foreseeing the inevitable decline of 🇫🇷 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, the writer warned, ‘The same thing will befall the powers that are presently dominant; they will undergo an unmistakable decline, while the US will assume the rank to which it is destined. But this era will become deadly for the Caribbean. It will simply change masters. It will come under the yoke of the US.’ As for ongoing US slavery, ‘in the states of the south, [it] is a fire that smolders under the ashes, the eventual explosion of which will one day make tremble the hardened & deaf masters who still maintain it, despite the prudent advice of their fellow citizens of the north.’ Like Boisrond-Tonnerre, who observed that the ‘key to liberty’ for the still enslaved across the Americas could be found ‘in their own hands,’ the writer [...] prophesied that 1 day ‘some audacious avengers will reclaim with interest their natural rights that have been violated.’ [...] this article asked the Haitian people not to ignore or dismiss the serious danger next door in North America: [🇫🇷's] attempts will come crashing down like the waves of the sea at the foot of the rock of our independence, & from the mountains our rescue squad will descend upon them. But a more hidden danger, & 1 far less apparent, because it is still distant for now, threatens us anyway. It will not be from Europe that our ills must come, if we are to ever experience them; it will be from the continent of the US: their proximity, the constant comings & goings of their citizens in our ports, the ambitions that they will bring with them, if our government does not restrict them, must open our eyes to the plots that they may 1 day attempt against us. “The writer did not seek ‘to place a cloud over the conduct of the Americans, nor do I think at all that, either the present government or the individuals who are linked to it through commercial relations with that country, have thus far had any plans to dominate us, nor to meditate on our enslavement.’ Yet, he said, ‘it is no less true that the possibility of such a combination could arise from a concurrence of circumstances, if ever the United States were to erect itself to become a maritime power.’ [42] “Imperial rage followed the publication of this astonishingly prescient article. Dessalines ordered Christophe to discover the identity of the author and to have him sent to Marchand/Dessalines immediately. Dessalines worried that openly and publicly criticizing the United States might propel the trade embargo being debated on the floors of Congress. [43] Christophe soon learned from the empire's printer, Pierre Roux, that the author was Joseph Rouanez, the official English translator in the empire and editor of the Gazette. [44] Dessalines must not have punished the newspaperman too harshly. Rouanez continued to work as editor of the Gazette; and despite Dessalines's evident displeasure, events on the ground made it difficult to deny the new geopolitical threat Rouanez outlined.” from The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut Additional citation: "Du Cap," Gazette politique et commerciale d'Haïti, Oct. 17, 1805, 175. 41.
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Charles Burnett's Annihilation of Fish trailer has been made public! www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...
Charles Burnett’s Lost Comedy ‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Lands 4K Theatrical Release — Watch the Trailer
Charles Burnett's lost comedy 'The Annihilation of Fish' has a 4K release.
www.indiewire.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Snow White (1916) with live harp and viola accompaniment at @cstpdx.bsky.social!
Photo from the rear of a movie theater with a title card for The Clinton Street Theater projected on the screen, a harp is beside the screen
January 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Yo, la peor de todas (1990)

Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Cinematographer: Félix Monti
January 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Library hold came in sooner than I expected!
Large hardcover library copy of The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut held up in front of bookshelves
January 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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cinejourneys.bsky.social
Hey All, @awest505.bsky.social and @biscuitkitten.bsky.social have been working on a book about A24 - the production and distribution company. We are really proud of it, but need support to finalize publishing. Please back us and share with your friends.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
The A24 New Wave - A New Book from Aaron West & Jill Blake
A new book by Aaron West and edited by Jill Blake about the film company that has challenged the status quo and achieved success.
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Some Lady LovelyLocks fanart I made, based on this vintage lingerie box I found in an antique mall. Duchess Ravenwaves FTW.
Purple and black illustration of a young woman admiring herself in a hand mirror with long flowing, curling black hair. A dramatic window illuminates in the background. A very old lingerie box with a green and black illustration of a young woman admiring herself in a hand mirror. A lacey cloak(?) sweeps out around her, like the hair in the previous illustration. Dramatic window behind her. Other vintage ephmera rests at the foot of the box.
December 1, 2023 at 7:57 PM
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Kneel at the feet of the Sidewalk Prince! Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
Black and white photo of a young white girl kneeling to stroke the leg of a longhaired tabby cat lying on a sunny sidewalk.
January 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Brother-in-law said a little too late that he didn’t want my annual cookies this year so now I’m preparing for a sugar high that will launch me into orbit this weekend 🚀
Photo of a mound of chocolate chip walnut cookies on a decorative red plate
January 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Because you all deserve a treat this year, I’ve gone and more than doubled the resolutions of all the Dark Science pages (with a few brand new extras) in the archive! So now’s a great time to revisit the series or check it out for the first time!
January 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Make time for #ChantelAkerman this year…
January 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Watch More Movies ’24: Annual Roundup has arrived!

On the blog you'll find: favorite 1st-time watches, deets on the when, where, who, and why of what I watched, chatter about some film-related books, & a summary of my researching/writing/cosplaying in '24.

fibularasa.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/w...
Collage graphic with text in a decorative font that reads: "2024 Year in Review" The collage is of films stills from some of my favorite first-time viewings of '24. Pictured: Si muero antes de despertar (1952), Eugenia Grandet (1946), The Vourdalak (2023) Quilombo (1984), Yo, la peor de todas (1990), Wedding in Galilee (1987), Le altre (1969), Eleven P.M. (1928), and Smouldering Fires (1925)
January 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Something being “difficult to read” isn’t a bad thing. Careful study, rereading, being challenged is key to reading — and to life. If you only want to “easy” art, maybe you don’t enjoy art at all so much as having your outlook supported and unchallenged.
January 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Any publisher friends interested in an anthology of big cinematic pulpy crack archaeology (aka, be gay do anticolonial crimes) stories from marginalized folks? Let's talk.
January 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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hi
Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.
January 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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First library holds of '25 successfully obtained!
Photograph of two books and a flyer sitting on a brown, patterned scarf. The first book is Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies. The second book is If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga. The flyer is An Afrofuturism Reading List.
January 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Sardine! 1903. www.facebook.com/DallasMuseum...
Oil painting of a white and tabby medium-haired cat with a huge bushy dark tail, lying on a green surface that looks like it's the back of a couch or chair. The cat has one foreleg outstretched with claw extended and its eyes are HUGE the way their eyes get when they are focusing in on prey or a toy. It looks to me like a moment where someone is playing with the cat and they're REALLY into it, very excited.
January 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Surviving one more trip around the sun means the photo on the left is now 20 years old. I might be older. I might be wiser. But I still pull the same faces.
January 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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My author copy of CINEMA HER WAY arrived this morning! I recorded an unboxing video and revealed the names of the nineteen women featured in the book here:
Cinema Her Way: Unboxing and Interview Subject Reveal
After a ten year journey, I'm an author!
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December 28, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Cosplay the Classics: Alida Valli in Walk Softly, Stranger ('50) has arrived!

Over on the blog I dig into the background of Valli's American period & her penultimate film before returning to Europe:
fibularasa.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/c...
Black-and-white medium close-up, self-portrait of me styled after Alida Valli as Elaine Corelli in Walk Softly, Stranger (1950).
December 20, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Illustration of Alla Nazimova by Ralph Barton from Photoplay, August 1921
Black and white caricature drawing of actress Alla Nazimova
December 11, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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lackadaisy.bsky.social
There's lots of new stuff in the Lackadaisy Shop, including a little tater guy.
You just have to pause and reassure him sometimes that he hasn't done anything wrong. Except for the gang slayings...

Everything's on sale until Cyber Monday! lackadaisyshop.com
A round, little ginger tabby cat plushie, based of the character Freckle McMurray from Lackadaisy.
November 23, 2024 at 6:27 PM