Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Doug Eacho @dougeacho.bsky.social asst prof of theatre and performance studies at the national university of singapore. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦.
writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
Adam the K 🍜 @adamthek.bsky.social off-hours cinephile.
Letterboxd: @AdamTheK https://boxd.it/tiz
Laura Major @majorl.bsky.social Nitrate handler, cat mom
Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
Ryan Wu @ryanwu.bsky.social Lawyer and cinephile.
Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social Writer, Film Curator
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
gina telaroli @grtela.bsky.social /// filmmaker
\\\ cavs fan
/// the film foundation
\\\ nyff
/// anthology film archives
\\\ new york city
/// sunset park, bk
@karinalongworth.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social
Anton Jackson @antonjackson.bsky.social Montgomery Film Festival Director & Programmer • Dream Video Division • multimedia art
Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social Raised on Blackpool postcards and Benny Hill, religious nut, Film Nerddom's Jake LaMotta, Japan WW2 apologist, loyal adherent to the disco movement, Deplorable. I block headshrinkers.
Michael Snydel @snydel.bsky.social He/him. Periodic writer about movies, regular musings about everything else. Former writer/podcaster; now i'm just trying to post through it.
San Francisco Cinematheque @sfcinematheque.bsky.social www.sfcinematheque.org
Cinematheque is one of the most respected showcases of experimental film & video in the world, including our CROSSROADS festival.
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social artist trying to learn from machines.
Not posting here anymore except announcements, please follow me on Mastodon.
site: https://joostrekveld.net
research: https://labyratoire.joostrekveld.net
mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@joost_rekveld
location: BXL
Jason Halprin @j-halprin.bsky.social Mostly water
Experimental Filmmaker | Post-Ac | analog enthusiast | Editor & Colorist | lapsed cinephile | 🎥 & 📽️ 16mm/Super8 🎞️ | 🎶 🎧🪩| 🇺🇸 in Montréal, Québéc 🇨🇦
films @CanyonCinema
JasonHalprin.com
YouTube.com/@JasonHalprin
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
Ithaca Underground @ithaca-underground.bsky.social We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit founded in 2007 to organize a local underground music community in Ithaca, NY; we aim to nurture a sustainable, all ages environment where music and art outside of the mainstream is encouraged and able to flourish
Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com Philadelphia, elections, baseball, databases. Dadge oak arborist. Movies from four years ago, and 104 years ago. https://letterboxd.com/rgodfrey/
Signal: rgo.99
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Francisco Rojas @dogstarfran.bsky.social
La Liotta @laliotta.bsky.social Artist & filmmaker, native New Yorker, Bard MFA Faculty, Prof Emerita CU Boulder, represented by Microscope Gallery and Lightcone Films.
Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
LoVid @lovidlovid.bsky.social Artist- duo-media-material-fam-📼
Upcoming things-process-living-thoughts-🫂
Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social Writer and critic, mostly contemporary art, sometimes food, always politics. New York Times and Hyperallergic, among other places. I’m surprisingly sweet. Live in NYC, originally from 🇨🇦
Rïse Peacock @risepeacock.bsky.social artist and cultural worker.
sayin’ the hard part out loud.
radically soft; sensy-feely with an edge.
they / she
Fox Mulder Bat Flip @mulderbatflip.net Boston Legal money
Eric Theise @erictheise.com Performance cartographer, experimental filmmaker, software engineer; reader & writer, eater & drinker. A Synesthete's Atlas is my maps-as-expanded-cinema project, collaborating w/improvising musicians.
https://linktr.ee/erictheise
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Rachel Lynett @chelalyn89.bsky.social She/they, playwright & screenwriter & everything in between…..kitchen witch, curator of chaos, happily married, and queer as f^ck 🐍
More about me here: https://canikeepthecat.com
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
steve @stevefelix.com 🎥🏀🇵🇸
Film exhibition
Now: Pittsburgh Sound + Image
Before: The Nightlight, arthouse cinema in Akron, OH
he/him
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
The Japanese Paper Film Project @kamifirumu.bsky.social The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves 1930s Japanese paper films (紙フィルム or "kami firumu") and promotes research into these rare movies.
kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu
Jean-Paul Kelly @jeanpaulkelly.bsky.social I’m an artist.
Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social
Sasha Frere-Jones @sashafrerejones.bsky.social https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
Light Industry @lightindustry.bsky.social Light Industry is a venue for cinema in all its forms, overseen by @thomasbeard.bsky.social and @edhalter.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/lightindustry
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
Thomas Beard @thomasbeard.bsky.social Half of @lightindustry.bsky.social
are.na/thomas-beard/index
Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
Jakob A. Nilsson @janilsson.bsky.social Associate professor of Film & Media Studies @ Örebro University. Author of "Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville. Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media": https://tinyurl.com/35hfke4x
Other writings: https://tinyurl.com/22h8pk2n
Views mine.
Brandy MP @brandymp.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, contemporary television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
http://campus-novel.ghost.io
Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Nathan Lee @nathanlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor (allegedly). Defrocked film critic.
Unreconstructed gay Nietzschean.
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
Ed Halter @edhalter.bsky.social Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn
@lightindustry.bsky.social
linktr.ee/edhalter
New York Film Critics Circle @nyfcc.bsky.social We are the oldest awards-bestowing film critics organization on the planet.
The Raúl Ruiz Diaries (by Jaime Grijalba) @ruizdiariesjaime.bsky.social Translator of the Raúl Ruiz Diaries - ruizdiaries.substack.com
Posts on daily entries and/or other stuff that I like.
Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social Cinephile, music lover & library worker originally from San Francisco now based in Maine. These are personal opinions that may not reflect the views of my imp lawyer.
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social Writer/editor. Past lives: The A.V. Club, Chron, Time Out Chicago. He/him/his. https://letterboxd.com/AADowd/
https://authory.com/AADowd
Steve Carlson @lcosgrove.bsky.social The lonely Magellan of disreputable exploitation cinema. Death merchant and amateur onion peeler. I like things that look like mistakes. He/him.
Jason Overbeck @bentclouds.bsky.social Editor/Assistant Editor working in film and advertising.
https://letterboxd.com/bentclouds/
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Joshua Rothkopf @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social Film Editor, Los Angeles Times | Member, LAFCA | Vice-Chair, National Society of Film Critics | I'm watching a movie right now.
Nick Schager @nschager.bsky.social Entertainment Critic for The Daily Beast / Beast Obsessed
Endlessly opinionated
Jaime “Ni!” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social probably gonna get something to eat
Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social I hate that I'm here. Director, eulogist, author of books on Tobe Hooper, John Ford, Christophe Gans, and Anthony Mann
patreon.com/honorszombie
Eric Henderson @ephender.bsky.social Minneapolis. I am a man who is married to a man. 🏳️🌈
Garage house. Cult movies. Mocktails. Community organization.
Letterboxd snark: https://letterboxd.com/ephender/
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Jeff Lambert @jefferylambert.bsky.social National Film Preservation Foundation Director, Cofounder of Lamfanti Presents, Themed Environment Enthusiast, New Beverly Gen X’er
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
EBT GOKU @ebtgoku.bsky.social Screenwriter, gamer, film lover, tran itmecarol.wordpress.com
Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social Views expressed here do not reflect the views of my employer. My employer has no views.
Beatrice Loayza @bealoayza.bsky.social Film critic // New York Times, Criterion, Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, etc.
Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social Picking a crazy apple off a stem
danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social frequent bylines at www.inreviewonline.com
member CFCA
https://letterboxd.com/danimal1/
Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Film Critic (Film Comment, Reverse Shot, Criterion). GALECA.
Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
Currently writing a book about TWIN PEAKS
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social Senior Editor at The Week plus NYU prof. Bylines: Village Voice (rip), Uproxx, Vulture, Guardian, Metro (rip), Philly Weekly. mattprigge at gmail dot com https://www.mattprigge.com
marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social swamp city cinema
https://soundcloud.com/gauntletmovies
MLP @maxluc.bsky.social Filmmaker / maxluc.net / ultradogme.com
Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social Socialist, Appalachian, union steward, I write about formalist/experimental film and horror. they/them
Tina Rivers Ryan @tinariversryan.bsky.social Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
Angelo Muredda @amuredda.bsky.social I teach English and write about movies and disability | Cinema Scope, Film Freak Central, TVO, SHARP Magazine | Reviews editor, Humber Literary Review
A l i c e @astoehr.bsky.social short story collection "again, harder" out now from feminist press ✨☠️ aliceostoehr@gmail.com https://feministpress.org/collections/coming-soon/products/9781558613898-again-harder
largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social the honorable one on The Lost Broadcasts, cohost of Get Cynical, words @ Little White Lies / Reverse Shot / rogerebert.com / Men's Health / Vinegar Syndrome, i have met two capybaras in real life
Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social Writes about extreme weather & wildfires, nature & public lands, and adaptation & resilience for Heatmap.news | Hiking, running, mountains, boats, nonfiction books, long movies, sleep deprivation (baby) |📍 Seattle/Queens
Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.