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Claire Vaughan
@pixieglas.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
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Watching the incredible Glen Manby celebration 30yrs of Jazz in the Bar at Chapter Arts Centre. I've just watched American Psycho with The Evolution of Horror podcast gang, now hanging out with Peppa, the Chapter cat and generally having a lovely time.
A quartet of Jazz musicians (keys, double bass, drums, saxophone) on a raised stage in Chapter Arts Centre café bar. There is a selection of coloured lights and a big audience looking on.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I love this for him. I wish we had pap photos of Boris Karloff cos that man was also very hot.
A brooding black and white picture of Boris Karloff at a similar age to Jacob Elordi in the photo in the original post. He looks into the camera with deep intensity. Monster, my Monster.
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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May the victims of Cheney's nihilism, deep evil and self-interest rest in peace.
Comedian Limmy pointing down and saying (phonetically spelled in his Glaswegian accent) "He's doonstairs" indicating that the subject is not here, but now resides in hell.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I may flirt with other places, but I am devoted to Cardiff. Look at this gorgeous city. I'm currently sat in the cafe in the park surrounded by happy people and boisterous dogs, staring a huge, thick, sprawling oak tree on the river bank. Bliss, innit.
A picture of the Taff Trail in Cardiff City centre. There is a cycle / footpath covered in leaves sandwiched between huge trees with leaves in various autumnal colours. To the right of the picture is a wrought iron fence going towards the Taff River.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Happy anniversary to Ghostwatch! Huge thanks to Pontypridd legend Steve Volk for writing the most terrifying time I've ever had watching TV.
Children's TV legend Sarah Greene looks terrified into the camera clutching one of the scared Early children as the ghost Pipes plunges the house into darkness in the mockumentary Ghostwatch.
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Fantastic melodrama lip sync performances in the Chapter cafe from Kitsch n Sync to launch our #BFI #TooMuch season taking place this autumn.
www.chapter.org/seasons/too-...
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I can't find her on here but Mary Mack from the band Kissing Practice has just pulled my brain into focus like a dolly zoom.

"AI is a thneed"
#TheLorax #AI #LazyBabies
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Josh O’Connor as James Mooney, an art thief in the Kelly Reichardt film The Mastermind.
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Well, I quoted @bilgeebiri.bsky.social in my introduction to Hamnet tonight, warning everyone that this was going to be an emotional experience but I don't remember the last time I was sobbing so hard with 180 other people. Hamnet is an incredible film. Go see it when it opens in January.
Agnes and Will (played by Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal) stand looking at each other intensely in a clearing in the forest.
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Gorgeous, dark performance piece with 16mm, symths and magical boxes of weird noises from Laura Philips, Kieran Doe and Jo Sheehy. @shiftcardiff.bsky.social at St John's Church in Canton, Cardiff.
A screen at the altar of a traditional Victorian church with layered projections of 16mm film with the projector in mid frame operated by Laura Philips. Behind her is Jo Sheehy with a small synth with various cables sticking out ready to be connected and Kieron Doe moving his hand around a DIY theremin connected to some modulation pedals. A congregation of experimental music fans watching.
October 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Tonight we have wonders @shiftcardiff.bsky.social The wind is whipping outside, the storm thunders but inside St John's Church in Canton, Cardiff we shelter with dark beauty from South Wales Improvisers x Richard Bowers. Open till 9.30pm.
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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September 30th October 1st
Julie Harris as Abra in East of Eden. Julie Harris as Eleanor in The Haunting.
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Really moving speeches from Senedd members Alan Davies and Huw Irranca Davies; Ruth Cocks (British Council Wales); and Inna Yehorova (Ukrainian Embassy) about the importance of cultural exchange and understanding at our event to celebrate Ukrainian culture at Chapter. Truly feel a bit more inspired.
Alan Davies MS and Senedd 4 Ukraine talking at a podium about the importance of work to help the Ukrainian people in Ukraine and refugees here in Wales. Deputy First Minister of Wales Huw Irranca Davies talking at a podium in the cinema about Wales as a nation of sanctuary and how much immigrants benefit our country. Ruth Cocks from British Council Wales talks at a podium in the cinema about what it was like to get a message from colleagues showing the British Council building bombed just as the war started and how important it remains to keep up ties to each other. Inna Yehorova from the Ukraine Foreign Office talks from a podium in the cinema about how we saw each other last time, just before the war celebrating the film Mr Jones and how things have changed since her last visit to Chapter.
September 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street. Not played by a Trans actor, but a pioneering role, watched by millions of people multiple times a week in the UK through the 90s and 00s. The actress who played her Julie Hesmondhalgh is a wonderful person.
September 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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There is so much to celebrate in the life of Robert Redford. He was beautiful; a wonderful, natural actor; a perceptive filmmaker; he created an incredible film festival in a town far away from Hollywood; created a lab programme for emerging filmmakers; was an activist till the end. What a life. RIP
Robert Redford sits on a chair looking into the camera, at a photoshoot to promote his final film 'The Old Man and The Gun' in 2018, a fitting swansong that linked to the mythology of his earlier roles, reminding the audience of his talent and sparkling intelligence that remained questioning and sharp into his late 80s.
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.
A bittersweet goodbye in the film 'The Way We Were'. Robert Redford, as Hubbell Gardiner sees Katie on the street, years after they parted. We've spent the movie seeing them fall in and then painfully out of love. He excuses himself to a perfectly pretty young woman and goes to say hello to Katie. They have an awkward couple of minutes of catching up, implicitly acknowledging what they mean to each other. He says: "You never give up, do you" "Only when I'm absolutely forced to." Katie says pause "But I'm a good loser" "Better than I am" Hubbell replies. "Well I've had... more practice" Katie replies. A big, gloopy pregnant pause. "Your girl is lovely, Hubbell. Bring her for a drink when you come". pause "I can't come, Katie". "I know". He's about to leave and she touches his cheek. He looks soulfully at her. I cry every time I think about it.
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Really excited to get the latest @filmstories.bsky.social in the post. I've been reading online for years but it's more important than ever to support print media. It's packed! So many interesting articles, I had no idea. Weekend is looking good!
A colourful Film Stories magazine on a messy desk. Then cover has an illustration of superman's torso with "Support Independent Cinema" written across rather than his 'S' logo. Then many headlines including Gareth Edwards, Heather Graham, Alex Cox in conversation.
September 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Is there a better festival in the UK than @supersonicfest.bsky.social ? No other festival would open with the expression of sheer femme joy every year. 2025 Mermaid Chunky. Everyone dancing, pure joy. Bendithia Duw.
Moina from Mermaid Chunky in a pink dress with a big frilly shrug and exquisite green make up playing the saxophone. Mermaid Chunky on stage, surrounded by people in incredible day-glo costumes, like the Wicker Man if it was set on Sogo from Barbarella. Behind them is there a projection of a blowfish in a surreal choral reef. Everyone is dancing. Mermaid Chunky on stage, a little closer up. You can see the detail on Freya's darted pinky top as she plays the keyboard.
August 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Anyone I know going to see Michael Shannon do Stars in Their Eyes-REM in the Thekla? It says 6.30pm - 8.30pm on the Internet but that seems like a very stupid time for a gig.
Michael Shannon in the Criterion Closet saying "I'm such a lucky boy"
August 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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At my mum's and we're watching The Bargee on Talking Pictures. Pawb, I think I fancy Ronnie Barker.

(I have always fancied Harry H Corbett and Eric Sykes).
Ronnie Barker as Ronnie looks up knowingly at Harry H Corbett as Hemel tearing up a polka dot shirt next to a canal.
August 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A lovely cat has found her way into our office. This is the future liberals want. More Art Centres with cats please.
Kit sat at her desk on the phone stroking a black and white cat called Pepper who is looking at some artwork that is a placard saying 'do not damage this sign' Pepper the cat having a lovely time lazing on the floor beneath Tom Betts' desk in the Chapter office.
August 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I have comfortably made the weirdest meal of my life. I went in with a plan: cauliflower breaded with tumeric hummus and mango and coconut. Tried to do couscous as an accompaniment but chucked in some chia seeds and made frogspawn by mistake. These do not go together. Frankie disapproves.
A plate with this weird mix of fruit and veg on top of a serving of the offending frogspawn. Frankie, a very handsome cat is looking concerned and housemate DC Gates looks on amused, doing bunny ears above Frankie's stink face.
August 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Pet Shop Boys in Cardiff Castle was absolutely joyous. I still don't like big gigs but it is special seeing the castle keep lit up and surrounded by a loving audience having a nice time. Se a Vida é surprised me, maybe it was the setting but one of my favourite moments of the night. All bangers.
Cardiff castle keep lit up in indigo blue matching the stage in the centre of the frame. On a big screen on the right is Neil Tennant wearing a glam suit and a modernised cossack hat singing into the mic. A photo of Neil Tennant from the big screen. He is wearing sunglasses and a striking, shining silver trench coat and singing into the mic, encased in bisexual lighting. A big screen with a starkly lit, almost black and white image of Chris Lowe at the keys wearing a leather hoodie and a baseball cap saying 'Boy'. Neil Tennant, gripping a lamp post, wearing an Alec Guinness-inspired 'Man In The White Suit' trench coat. Chris Lowe stands near him, wearing a mask that looks a bit like mf doom and a tuning fork, surrounded by computer monitors and keyboards. Chris is also stood next to a lamp post, The Pet Shop Boys in perfect symmetry. They are bathed in headache-yellow lamp post light.
August 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I was able to go to the beautiful island of Tiree off the West Coast of Scotland. I got to do workshops with incredible women, swam naked in the North Sea with seals, took part in some amazing film events. This was all down to Sea Change Festival. You can go!
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Logo of the Sea Change Festival 2025 with Heanish beach at sunset behind. Beautiful rugged scenery with the blue North Sea in the background from Hynish YHA where you can stay when you're at Sea Change. The beautiful beach of Scarinish with the cohort of women from my year of Sea Change in silhouette against the big sky. We are all walking barefoot. My group of film women from Sea Change 2022 on the beach at Scarinish, some squatting and some standing. In front of us is sand, behind us is rocks and sea. The Atlantic ocean stretches out behind us.
July 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Not a surprise, but disappointing nonetheless. Until 2019 MP Stephen Doughty was a signed up "Friend of Palestine".🙄
A screenshot of the ITV website search bar. The question "Did your MP sign the letter calling on the government to recognise Palestine as a state?" then underneath 'To find out, type your MP's name or your constituency in the search bar below.' I've entered 'Cardiff' and the names displayed are: Alex Barros-Curtis (Cardiff West, Labour) Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth, Labour) Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North, Labour) Jo Stevens (Cardiff East, Labour) For all of them it says 'Did Not Sign'.
July 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM