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Joe Fordham
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Filmmaker (glitchsite.com), writer of books, screenplays, and (2001-2021) a million-plus words for Cinefex magazine.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Aug 29
My Flashfilms website is now new and shiny. Details at the blog, or cut to the chase at flashfilms.us

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Flashfilms Redux
Flashfilms gets a makeover.
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For the first time in its history, American Cinematographer is offering a choice of covers in its December 2025 issue. Proud to see my coverage on GDT's "Frankenstein" will be one of those. Preview of the print mag at the link below. Additional online story coming soon 🌭🍺

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Inside the December 2025 Issue of American Cinematographer
AC's December 2025 issue explores the making of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wicked: For Good,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'Bugonia' and 'Train Dreams.'
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November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Tim Greiving’s new book about John Williams is a tsunami of love for movie music that pours out of its +500 pages.

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I’m halfway through, in the summer of 1982 (my own take, below). But it’s a monumental achievement. Highly recommended.

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Henry Thomas as Elliott illuminated by lamplight, eavesdropping on his mom reading to his kid sister, with his kindly extra-terrestrial friend in 1982.
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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10 years ago, Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” inspired one of my purple-prose Flashfilms reviews: shorturl.at/fHKJM Revisiting the film tonight, a scene jumped out at me where an FBI agent (Scott Shepherd) is pushing Hanks to violate his attorney/client oath. Resonant today:

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What Makes Us Americans - Bridge Of Spies (2015)
YouTube video by Willoughby Alley
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September 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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There is nothing wrong with your television set...

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TV Zanti
Arty retro TV effect
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September 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I commissioned this beautiful conceptual painting by Miles Teves for "The Dodo Man" after my story received attention as finalist for Ron Howard's Imagine Impact. Unveiled here as part of my Flashfilms redux: flashfilms.us/the-dodo-man #ScriptSky #MilesTeves 🦤

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The Dodo Man
Conceptual art by Miles Teves. Extract from 'The Dodo Man' screenplay by Joe Fordham: "Out of the undergrowth, a second bird appears – a sleeker, slighter FATHER DODO. It rams into the dog’s ribs. T...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Few films have the power of this American cinema classic. #Redford #Hoffman #Holbrook #Goldman #Willis #Shire #Pakula
Harsh cross-lighting in a parking garage illuminates the face of Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat in “All The President’s Men.”
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Poster for an animated short that I developed with some friends years ago, now featured as a screenplay link (with music) at flashfilms.us #ClaudeDebussy #animation #ScriptSky
Speculative movie poster depicting a vast cathedral-like office space with hundreds of desks lit by a piercing blue laser light, while far above them the tiny figure of a tea lady lowers from the ceiling.
September 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Music for the wee hours… Sleepless Night, and three other cues, from maestro Laurent Watteau’s score to “The Glitch” — part of Flashfilms’ new special features. flashfilms.bandcamp.com/track/the-gl...
The Glitch suite, by Laurent Watteau
track by Laurent Watteau
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September 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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My latest creature creations: 🎼 Little Creatures. Creatures of lurrve… 🎶 flashfilms8.wixsite.com/flashfilms/p...
Little Creatures
How I started sculpting little creatures.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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My Flashfilms website is now new and shiny. Details at the blog, or cut to the chase at flashfilms.us

flashfilms8.wixsite.com/flashfilms/p...
Flashfilms Redux
Flashfilms gets a makeover.
flashfilms8.wixsite.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The Bridge on the River Kwai - Madness... MADNESS!
YouTube video by Reaction & reply GIFs - With audio!
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August 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Here’s my 4EVR collaborator Sergio Pinheiro making his feature film debut. We met at DragonCon where my short The Glitch was playing with Sergio’s The Procedure. Very proud to see him knocking it out of the park with this first trailer for Wormtown. Not for the feint of heart ❤️ 🐛 🪱 💀 😱
August 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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"Boys Go To Jupiter" is wonderful.

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Inside Julian Glander’s Blender-Made Feature 'Boys Go to Jupiter'
Julian Glander’s debut feature, 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' blends surreal CG animation, Gen Z humor, and DIY production into a one-of-a-kind indie film.
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August 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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My little girl turned 13.
My woofer, Polk, and my woofer, Lucy.
July 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Happy 50th, old fish.
My 25th anniversary video postcard to "Jaws" (26 mins): vimeo.com/1899878
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Amity or Bust
In June 2005, Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce invited members of the cast and crew of Steven Spielberg's "JAWS", novelist Peter Benchley…
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June 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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My old short film never had its IMDb, until now, when I realised its BBC TV appearance likely warranted that distinction. To my happy surprise, the IMDb staff agreed. It was surreal writing the synopsis to something I made 40+ years ago.

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Board Game (Short 1986) - Reference view - IMDb
Board Game: Directed by Joe Fordham. With Richard Merry, Simon Mendes. One hot summer day at the local youth club, a Bored Boy discovers a mysterious ancient chess set.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Bravo, Gints!
flashfilms.bsky.social Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Dec 4
This eerie and spellbinding animated feature "Flow" is now playing. Highly recommended for all who appreciate animal life, imagination, and the possibilities of animation. It was fascinating speaking with the filmmaker.
#flowmovie2024 🐈‍⬛🦮🐭🐒🐦🌊
cartoonbrew.bsky.social Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · Dec 4
Gints Zilbalodis on the improvisational filmmaking style of ‘Flow.’ "After finishing the script, I did not read it again," Zilbalodis told Cartoon Brew. "Even when I was making the animatic, that was based on my memory of the script." Read the interview:
March 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Timeline cleanse. My happy girl.
Lucy, my Jindo shepherd mix, smiling.
February 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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More Williams birthday love, this struck me as particularly poignant today: my puppy happened to arrive in my life the same time as John’s sublime score for “Lincoln,” and its theme, ‘With Malice Toward None.’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjeR...
Chewy Puppy
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February 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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To celebrate John Williams turning 93 today, here’s my tribute eight years ago on his 85th, gathering some pretty silly toons, digital doodles, and a super geeky photo from one of my close encounters with the maestro over the years 🎶🔥🦈🚀👽🧚🦖🤠🪖🧙‍♂️🎩🐴🤖❤️🎶

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Maestro John Williams, lightsaber in hand, cavorts across the staves of his opening fanfare for “Star Wars.”
February 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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David Fitzsimmons’ beautifully written and chilling tribute to Ray Bradbury: The Temperature at Which Democracy Burns 🔥 davidwfitzsimmons.substack.com/p/fahrenheit...
Fahrenheit 451
The temperature at which democracy burns
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February 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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"We're all in this trip together. Keep at It." Celebrate with The David Lynch Foundation and Dr. Tony Nader, Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 10:30 am Pacific / 1:30 pm Eastern:
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Invitation to join the Celebration of the Cosmic Life of David Lynch, Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 10:30 am Pacific / 1:30 pm Eastern / 7:30 pm Paris, visit the YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram of Dr Tony Nader.
January 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Paying our respects to the ever-increasing cavalcade of cherry pies, cigarettes, donuts and other sweet tributes to maestro David Lynch at Bob's Boy Boy, Toluca Lake. My favorite: a can of Heineken, inscribed: "F**k that shit!"
Panoramic pic with some appropriately strange distortions of well-wishers at the David Lynch memorial outside Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Toluca Lake, California, Sunday lunchtime, January 19, 2025.
January 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Noon Monday (PST), be there, or be square.
The family of filmmaker and cosmic mindtraveler David Lynch invite all mindful citizens of planet Earth to cut loose from the noise on Monday, January 20 at noon Pacific Time, and join in ten minutes of global meditation to honor the sweet man from Missoula.
January 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Sad that I never got to meet him. Dogspeed, David. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/david-ly...
David Lynch, Iconic American Filmmaker Who Started As An Animator, Has Died
The enigmatic artist and filmmaker from Missoula, Montana, leaves a cosmic legacy of weirdness and magic.
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January 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM