Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social Canadian small press publisher of film + pop culture books, developer/producer/distributor of independent film. Owned by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social
www.spectacularoptical.com
The Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies @cjfms.bsky.social Canada's leading academic peer-reviewed journal in film and media studies.
https://linktr.ee/cjfms_rcecm
Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Visit drewmcweeny.com for all my shit.
Maddy @craniumarachnid.bsky.social 
LA Filmforum @lafilmforum.bsky.social The city’s longest running home for experimental and avant-garde film and video art, documentary and animation, founded 1975. Lafilmforum.org
Innis Town Hall @innistownhall.bsky.social A theatre and cinema at the heart of Innis College, University of Toronto.
https://t.co/vwU7EBt0CS
Ruairí McCann @ruairimccann.bsky.social critic, curator, illustrator & musician from Ireland (born and living in Belfast but raised in County Sligo) - co-editor of Ultra Dogme.
ultradogme.com
Kazik Radwanski @redvineski.bsky.social Toronto filmmaker/ @mdff co-founder
Tower (2012) How Heavy This Hammer (2015) Anne at 13,000 ft (2019) Matt and Mara (2024) Available on MUBI, CBC and AppleTV.
Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.social A cheerleader for Toronto film culture.
J. Makary @jmakary.bsky.social Filmmaker and PhD candidate @ Stanford. Avant-garde cinema, critical AI, and philosophy of perception.
WittnerCinetec.com @wittnercinetec.bsky.social Wittner Cinetec offers Super 8, Double 8 and 16mm filmstock and a large selection of accessories like film reels, cans, splicing tape, splicers, bulbs, spare parts and more!
Imprint: www.wittnercinetec.com/imprint
-> WEBSHOP: www.wittnercinetec.com/en_GB
stephanie barber @stephaniebarber.bsky.social filmmaker, writer, artist
or
artist
https://www.stephaniebarber.com/
Deanna Bowen @narrowrooms.bsky.social Artist. Educator. Rebel Rouser: https://linktr.ee/narrowrooms
Karly McCloskey @karlymccloskey.bsky.social Artist in Halifax 🌈
I create posters, logos, animations, music videos, creative video editing, and cinematography!
Ella Morton @ellasharpmorton.bsky.social Visual artist
Experimental photo and film 🎞️🎥
www.ellamorton.com
@justine-olivia.bsky.social @justine-olivia.bsky.social 
Annaëlle Winand @annaellewd.bsky.social Archives, politics & cinema. Horror & experimental. Ex-underground film programmer | Video collage loser | Clumsy boxer | Assistant professor | Easily distracted | she/her | https://mastodon.social/@annaellewd
Mehdi Jahan @jahanoir.bsky.social Filmmaker | Assistant Professor @Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.
www.mehdijahan.com
@sirahfb.bsky.social @sirahfb.bsky.social Anti zionist, artist, mother.
All things that make you tired, but in good company.
@kareldoing.bsky.social @kareldoing.bsky.social 
Joel Schlemowitz @joelschlemowitz.bsky.social https://www.joelschlemowitz.com Artist/experimental filmmaker. Magic lanternist. Educator. Miniaturist. Author.
@laurapaolini.bsky.social @laurapaolini.bsky.social 
Charlene Heath @charleneheath.bsky.social Photo Historian. Research Archivist at The Image Centre. Jo Spence Memorial Archive. Berenice Abbott Archive, Wendy Snyder MacNeil Archive and more.
Julian Ross @rossjulian.bsky.social head of film programming & distribution @ Eye Filmmuseum
http://www.rossjulian.com/
Louis Pelletier @pelletieroscope.bsky.social 
Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social Official page of the Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of @SCMStudies. Sign up for our newsletter 'Nontheatrical News’ by emailing: nontheatricalnews@listserv.dfn.de
@counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social 🎞️ Network dedicated to activating and preserving Canada’s audiovisual heritage through digitization initiatives, artist residencies, symposia, & more 🔍 Works by Indigenous peoples, POCs, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities - counterarchive.ca
Allison Cooper @kinolab.bsky.social Director, Kinolab; Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College; Video Essayist.
@necsusjournal.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social 
SCMS Digital Humanities & Videographic Criticism SIG @videoessays.bsky.social This is the official Scholarly Interest Group account of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Digital Humanities & Videographic Criticism group. 
MediArXiv @mediarxiv.bsky.social Non-profit, scholar-led preprint (articles, chapters, books) server for media & communication studies. Founded 2019. Follow also on Mastodon: @mediarxiv@hcommons.social
www.mediarxiv.com
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
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
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.
Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person
Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
thom @poi.bsky.social thom from mecha yuri and other places on the internet
6t8upoi on discord
i don't use this account
Franci Duran @franciduran.bsky.social I am a Chilean-Canadian experimental media artist and educator currently living in Tkaronto.
franciduran.art
CHRIS Horak @filmarchivist.bsky.social Forty years as moving images preservationist. Still blogging at Archivalspaces.com and teaching film history.
Nina Fonoroff @ninafonoroff.bsky.social Experimental filmmaker, artist, onetime academic.
Jen @proctorj.bsky.social Maker of images and sounds. Rider of bikes. Lover of cats and frogs. Professor of light, time, and soundwaves.
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
Jim Shedden @jimshedden.bsky.social These things matter to me: recovery, family, friends, music, film, theatre, books, art, Toronto, other cities, peace, justice, food, podcasts, public radio, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, ubu.com, DIY culture.
michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social media arts curator, block museum of art, northwestern university.
Dean Kavanagh @deankavanagh.bsky.social Filmmaker
https://www.deankavanagh.com/
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
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social Entertainment with Sharp Edges. Creating, rescuing, and releasing the world’s most provocative cinema since 2006.
linktr.ee/severinfilms
Colin Geddes @colingeddes.bsky.social Producer + Phil Tippett collaborator (Mad God), Midnight Madness programmer (TIFF 1997-2016), curator at Shudder (2014-2023), film rescuer, magician, bon vivant + married to @katarinag.
@chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social @chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social 
Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social Art and Trash, a source for video essays on underground, avant-garde, psychotronic and outsider media. We are searching for surreal encounters in the dusty, subversive and marginal corners of cinema. Hosted by Stephen Broomer.
Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
Koyacat @mysteryimage.bsky.social writer, curator, cat lady, flowers
David Sherman @davidgatessherman.bsky.social Experimental filmmaker & microcinema baker
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
Black Zero @blackzerodisc.bsky.social Black Zero is a multimedia publisher celebrating the best of Canadian underground films from the 1960s to the present.
ollor @keykode.bsky.social filmmaker | teacher | swimmer
Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social News and Resources on Experimental Films
Tomas Genevičius @tomasgen.bsky.social Film critic, Kaunas, Lithuania
kritikosatlasas.com
Derek Jenkins @derekbjenkins.bsky.social Filmmaker. Executive Director of Hamilton Artists Inc. Founder of Dandelion Film Collective. Board chair at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Worry-wart.
Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
How to Enjoy Experimental Film @h2eef.bsky.social Podcast about experimental and avant garde film featuring interviews with filmmakers and critics.
Gingerbrarian @gingerbrarian.bsky.social ginger cinema
https://letterboxd.com/glowingwabbit/
David Baeumler @davebfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker, Creative Director, Father, Useless wisdom distributor. Website: www.sometimesonsundays.com
Gabriel Linhares Falcão @falcaolinhares.bsky.social Sessão Babel e Festival Ecrã
El Cine Probablemente, Revista Limite e por aí vai
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
letterboxd.com/fuzilfalcao
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.
Barbara Goslawski @bgos923.bsky.social Film critic. RADIO/POD: Frameline, Radio Regent. WRITER: POV Magazine; Exclaim!; Screen Anarchy.
Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved critic.
MEMBER: AWFJ.
Sophia Satchell-Baeza @sophiasb.bsky.social senior managing editor at MUBI | writing for Sight & Sound, ArtReview, MUBI Notebook | website: https://sophiasatchellbaeza.co.uk | let's see how long I last on here
Spencer Barclay @miniaturespencer.bsky.social Toronto Miniature Artist, proud husband and fan of loading docks everywhere. For fabrication, 3D printing and laser cutting services, please contact me through my work website.
Personal - spencerbarclay.com
Work - loadingdocproductions.com
Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social Writer and Cantonese–English translator. Sinophone and East Asian cinema, especially from Hong Kong.
Contact: dylan.ym.cheung at gmail
La Liotta @laliotta.bsky.social Artist & filmmaker, native New Yorker, Bard MFA Faculty, Prof Emerita CU Boulder, represented by Microscope Gallery and Lightcone Films.
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.
Cinématographe @cine-matographe.bsky.social A sub-label from Vinegar Syndrome, focused on American cinema from the mid-60s through the 90s.
Curated and produced by Justin LaLiberty 
Derrick has started yet another social site @dvsch.bsky.social Post-AI artist, filmmaker and educator (ITP, independent courses). AI/Product @ Titles.xyz
Unpopular Culp @unpopulara.bsky.social Follow The Unpopular Archive on YouTube.
They/them :)
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Chuck Jackson @chuckjackson.bsky.social Film, Literature, Theory | Professor of English | HTX 
gold-star pansexual @tsion.bsky.social Look buddy, it’s transient, shifting like water | they/them
Jon Peters @omahajon.bsky.social Cinephile in the nicest definition of that word.
kate lain @katemakesfilms.bsky.social maker of experimental films, cyanotypes, cupcakes, etc.
Adam Hyman @adamhy.bsky.social Director of LA Filmforum; documentary worker, native Angeleno, reader of history and music, own too many records
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
💬 Community manager: @theessaylibrary.com
💻 kikikrazed.com
Hope Peterson @hopepeterson.bsky.social Film artist in Toronto.
Sylvia @sylvianowak.bsky.social Artist & scholar.
Organizer with 230 Fightback.
Often found at the Toronto Zine Library.
(She/Her)
sylvianowak.com
danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social frequent bylines at www.inreviewonline.com
member CFCA
https://letterboxd.com/danimal1/
Media Burn Archive @mediaburn.bsky.social Media Burn is a nonprofit dedicated to video’s overlooked histories and its most fiercely independent voices, from the 1960s to today.
Gregory Zinman @gregzinman.bsky.social Media scholar/curator/critic—associate professor, Department of Film and Media, Emory University.
Curator, Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce
Author of Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts (UCPress).
Johannes Binotto @sennahojottonib.bsky.social 
Joshua Neves @joshua-neves.bsky.social underbelly of the digital. Prof @Concordia University
books: In/Convenience / Technopharmacology / Underglobalization / Asian Video Cultures
dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social fix your hearts or die 💕
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social Queer film historian, programmer, distributor |
@muscledistribution.bsky.social | elizabethpurchell.com
Jesse (Malmed) @marmblatt.bsky.social aka jetsy merchblatt, jersi memeblatt, jpeg malware, jelly marmalade, djembe marimba, etc. artist, curator, professor: chicago, milwaukee, santa fe. jessemalmed.net 📻📽️🖼️🎤 & jetsy.biz 🧢🪧📌
cww @cww.bsky.social Fix your hearts or die.
https://boxd.it/zO6z
https://linktr.ee/podsidepicnic
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)