Ben ‘Oh’ Pah @benspatz.bsky.social Conflict-avoidant revolutionary. Critical planetary theorist. Creative practice researcher at University of Birmingham.
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com
filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social Film is Fabulous! is an initiative to preserve vulnerable film collections held privately in the United Kingdom.
FaceBook Page https://rb.gy/owgxjr
United Kingdom filmisfabulous.org.uk
Helen Wheatley (she/her) @helenwheatley.bsky.social Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Jessica Wax-Edwards @waxwards.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow @ University College Cork.
Working on AMLO/Mexico + visual populism in social media, film etc using videographic methods .
HMU to collaborate. 
@followingred.bsky.social @followingred.bsky.social 
Digbeth Estate @digbethestate.bsky.social Shining a spotlight on the people and creative businesses that call Digbeth their home.
Niina Oisalo @elo-et-liike.bsky.social Writing, videos, somatic practices, natural movement, audiovisual & ecocritical studies
Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social Archive TV viewer, writer, pint drinker: time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. Regular at @cathoderays.bsky.social
“general excellent taste”
“incredibly good company”
“very nice”
📺 http://visualmutterings.com
⏪️ https://backintimefortv.co.uk
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social Opinion haver. Writer. Filmmaker. Video Essayist. Among other things. Not a geologist.
Cultural Studies • Class Theory • Genre Theory • Fantasy and Sci-Fi • Practice-Based Research
https://linktr.ee/jdhdoveton
http://jdhdoveton.wordpress.com
She/her
Laura Rascaroli 🇪🇺 @larascaroli.bsky.social Prof in Film & Screen Media @ucc.ie
Editor-in-Chief, @alphavillej.bsky.social
Essay film, documentary, art film, European & World Cinemas
https://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/L.Rascaroli@ucc.ie
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social https://www.alphavillejournal.com/
Published by @uccfilmscreenmedia.bsky.social at University College Cork
Editor @larascaroli.bsky.social
Communications Officer @gwendayoung.bsky.social
Peer reviewed, Diamond Open Access 💎 
@williamfallows.bsky.social @williamfallows.bsky.social 
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
David Evans-Powell @davidep82.bsky.social Theatre, horror, Doctor Who, Eurovision, history, arts, old British TV and film. Loves the kitsch and the weird. Mini schnauzer dad 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights.
Co-host of Rambling Through Eternity:
https://shorturl.at/S5Iuw
Insta: @davidevanspowell
Alex Taylor @alexjjtaylor.bsky.social Journalist, filmmaker, tortoise-owner.
Director of Michael Rosen Doc
Featured in the Birmingham Dispatch, the Mill, the Fence Magazine
Worked with The Sunday Times
Nilüfer @nnarslan.bsky.social 
Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social https://fragments.video/
Dario Llinares @darioll.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, educator.
Contact: drdario22@gmail.com
Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists
Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social Official account for the University of Birmingham.
Changing how the world works.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
Dr Rosemary 'Rosy' Alexander-Jones @rosemaryaj.bsky.social Teaching Fellow (Inquiry and Research Skills) at Warwick University. Specialisms include heritage media, historical filming locations and understanding authenticity in heritage media.
Sarah Gibson Yates @sgyates.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, researcher, senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Researcher in #screenwriting #filmmaking #film_practice #creativeAI #ethicalAI #creative_practice #creative_writing
Rory Gleeson @rorygleeson.bsky.social Writerfella: Rockadoon Shore | Blood in the Dirt | Psychic
Print, Screen & Audio stylings for BBC, Granta, RTÉ, Dublin Review.
I was on The Chase.
https://linktr.ee/rorygleeson
✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿ @lrjdmnr.bsky.social senior lecturer in TV and media @ the university of salford ❈ women & UK comedy book: https://shorturl.at/iD3Q5 ❈ tv & class project: https://shorturl.at/uIkTP ❈ l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk
https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/1178868/laura-minor
Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
Simeon Smith @simeonsmith.bsky.social Half Human / Half Snorlax
Multidisciplinary artist in Swansea.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies #BAFTSS2026
Ellen Shobrook @ellensho.bsky.social UCU, University of Birmingham. Here for building connection and community for positive change. Resisting the temptation to despair (mostly). All views my own (is this still a thing we have to say?). Profile pic is at least a decade old.
@joelburges.bsky.social @joelburges.bsky.social 
David Forrest @davidforrest.bsky.social Professor in Film and Television Studies - work on British cinema, television and literature with a focus on class and region.
Deputy VP Education at The University of Sheffield.
Football, fiction, music, running and cricket the rest of the time.
Philip Józef Brubaker @bolddecade.bsky.social Essayist/Filmmaker • Master of Ceremonies • Herzog Film School '10 | Fandor | MUBI |tecmerin | [in]Transition | Vague Visages | Substack
https://linktr.ee/philipjozefbrubaker
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializing Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
Richard Langley @richardlangley.bsky.social 
Brum Radio @brumradio.com Music, Arts & Culture - The Alternative Sound For #Birmingham
WhatsApp the studio +441216335534 🇪🇺
🔊 Online | Smart Speaker | iTunes | TuneIn | App
Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social Emmy Noether Research Group "Hollywood Memories" based at Leibniz University Hannover, funded by @dfgpublic.bsky.social.
Hollywood movies | memories | generations | remakes | sequels | franchises
https://hollywood-memories.com/
Aaron Taylor @aarontaylorphd.bsky.social Professor of Cinema, University of Lethbridge.
Researches screen acting, cognitive media theory, and comics.
Recirculated received wisdom aside, opinions are my own.
CSTonline @cstonline.bsky.social We are a website devoted to TV studies in Europe, North America, and beyond. Feedback and submissions welcome. Come find us at https://cstonline.net/
Abi Rhodes @abirhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Language and Communication at UoB. Researching social movement and grassroots communications. Co-convenor of PSA MPG. Trustee of Journey to Justice. Living kidney donor(She/her)
https://www.abirhodes.co.uk/
@videoessayacademic.bsky.social @videoessayacademic.bsky.social 
Cydnii Wilde Harris (she/her) @cydniiwilde.bsky.social Spelman Woman / Jedi Master of Arts / Film Scholar / Bibliophile / Come on stop trying to hit me and hit me.
Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Film Director doing a PhD in Horror
🐁 The Feral Academic
🎬 In Post: Kids Make Horror
📍 Birmingham UK 🔁 LA
Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich-based film and media prof. Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.
Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP
@necsusjournal.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social 
José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social Teacher, critic; interested in all things film. 
Video Essay Guy @videoessayguy.bsky.social I only use social media to share video essays.
Marverine Cole @tvmarv.bsky.social Journalist 🏆~ Newsreader #GMB ITV 📺 👩🏾💻 ~🍻Craft beer geek ~ Career Coach (ICF-trained) ~ Social Media mentor ~ B’ham Royal Ballet board 🩰~ Supporter of FTVC, BHF & Alzheimers Society ❤️⭐️JOIN MY TRIBE https://linktr.ee/marverinecole ⭐️
Patricia Gaytán @patriciagaytan.bsky.social Latin American Woman. 🎥 Audiovisual producer, feminist activist and doctoral student in communication and gender. 📚 Experimenting #videoessay as a methodology.
🦋 I believe in justice. 🌱 Ecocentric.
@chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social @chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social 
Stephan Schwingeler @schwingeler.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at HAWK, Germany, formerly at ZKM
Wikipedia: https://t.co/oG5vVSzMib
Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social She/Her. Film Studies/History professor at @escacub.bsky.social. Co-editor at @ComparativeCinema.bsky.social.
Writer at Sitges Film Festival.
My views are my own, and all that jazz.
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
Ella Wright @ellwrig.bsky.social Documentary film editor (current: CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN).
Audiovisual PhD candidate researching videographic criticism and the video essay.
Media & Film Technician @ University of Birmingham.
(All views my own).
🏳️🌈
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
www.evelynkreutzer.com
Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Dr Louise Coopey @loucoopey.bsky.social Doctor in film & television. Independent researcher & freelance content writer. Researching TV, representation, complexity, seriality, adaptation.
Nina Jones @ninajonesfilm.bsky.social Documentarian, currently producing a film exploring the ethics of true crime content production for a PhD at The University of Birmingham.
David F Poole - Director @davidfpoole.bsky.social Writer Director | Shorts & Art Film | Learning And Participation Manager - views are my own | Love sci-fi, books & cake | May post too many pictures of houseplants & cats
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Peet Gelderblom | Directorama @peetgelderblom.bsky.social Filmmaker • Creative Creature • Pattern Weaver
MOOI HIER ALLES | WHEN FOREVER DIES | PACT MET DE DUIVEL
directorama.net
https://beacons.ai/peet
Nelson Carvajal @nelsoncarvajal.com 📍Los Angeles ‣ Creator Manager at TikTok ‣ Webby Award winner ‣ Emmy-nominated Producer ‣ Born & raised in Chicago ‣ 📧: nelson.carvajal@tiktok.com ‣ nelsoncarvajal.com
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
James Leggott @jegleggott.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, Northumbria University.
Ariane Hudelet @arianehudelet.bsky.social Visual culture professor at Université Paris Cité; video essayist & author of written books and articles on TV series, intermediality, etc.
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
Richard Dhillon @drricharddhillon.bsky.social Sessional Tutor, Film and Television Studies, Warwick. British/queer television and film histories. 📺 he/him
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/dhillon/
Johannes Binotto @sennahojottonib.bsky.social 
Jenna Clake @jennaclake.bsky.social Novelist and poet; she/her
linktr.ee/jennaclake / jennaclake.com
James MacDowell @jamesmacdowell.bsky.social Film/media scholar & video essayist at Warwick. The Lesser Feat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelesserfeat6298
@iangarwoodfilm.bsky.social @iangarwoodfilm.bsky.social 
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd) 
Em T @emtherese.bsky.social NC mountains. Dogs and cats. LGBTQ+, antiracist, pro democracy. no DMs
Viktoria Paranyuk @vikap8.bsky.social film scholar & teacher | video essayist | occasional violinist
Desirée Garcia @dezigarcia.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com 📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary
📱 Discord server with 900+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
Will Webb @willwebbful.bsky.social Filmmaker, video essayist. Staking out this username.
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social Film historian and video essayist.
Assistant Professor at University of Warwick.
Previously at Goethe University and University of Chicago.
https://www.ritikakaushik.com/