HippFest @hippfest.bsky.social HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s oldest cinema, featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, community events and touring. More info: http://www.hippfest.co.uk
@silentfilmbonn.bsky.social @silentfilmbonn.bsky.social Bringing you classics and hidden gems from the silent film era since 1995!
Visit us in Bonn or enjoy our programme online - from 13th to 22nd August 2026.
CHRIS Horak @filmarchivist.bsky.social Forty years as moving images preservationist. Still blogging at Archivalspaces.com and teaching film history.
San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social SFFP's mission is to restore, preserve, and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage, ensuring that films—of all genres and eras—remain accessible for future generations.
https://linktr.ee/sffilmpreserve
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.
SCMS Gender & Feminisms Caucus @scmsgfcaucus.bsky.social The caucus was founded in 1994 “to promote parity for women’s intellectual and practical work” in film and media. We are committed to promoting interdisciplinary and transnational feminist-informed work and support our members through diverse initiatives.
Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created Game Show Network's blog, was an arts reporter for NYC weekly The Villager, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts. Currently digital marketing for NYC nonprofit New Plaza Cinema.
Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social Film scholar, director of the Cinémathèque Suisse. Research @goethe_uni Frankfurt: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
🗃️ 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
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Susan Potter @specksofthings.bsky.social new to BSky ...
queer cinema history | contemporary lesbian film
archive-ology | historiography | creative practice
use: she/her - them/they also ok
www.susanpotter.me
Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social Early Popular Visual Culture (EPVC) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to stimulating research and interdisciplinary studies in relation to all forms of popular visual culture before 1930.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/repv20
FarzanehHolasu @farzanehebh.bsky.social Film and Media/Feminist Historiography/ stardom/ affective performance labor/Archives
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@karenpearlman.bsky.social @karenpearlman.bsky.social 
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
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Peer reviewed, Diamond Open Access 💎 
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
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Hiddenherstory @hiddenherstory.bsky.social “Sharing untold stories of women whose contributions shaped history, from groundbreaking scientific achievements to pivotal moments in art, politics, and beyond. Brief highlights to celebrate their lasting impact.”
DAVIF @davif.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy BMBF Research Group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History (DAVIF)" at Philipps-Universität Marburg | https://uni-marburg.de/Q85oo
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Stuart Comer @stuartcomer.bsky.social The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, MoMA
Makia Matsumura @unpianistique.bsky.social Composer/pianist/silent film accompanist in NYC. 無声映画伴奏を中心にNYを拠点に音楽活動をしています。 #silentfilm #livemusic 📽️🎞️🎹🗽
Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own. 
Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College
Scholar of feminist/queer screen media
Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum
IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner
Boston-based itinerant cinephile
mariasanfilippo.net
@bryonyd.bsky.social @bryonyd.bsky.social 
Nannina Gilder @nannina.bsky.social In 1916 Lois Weber was the highest paid director in Hollywood.
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
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.
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361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
Spectacle @spectacletheater.com Spectacle (est. 2010) is a 35-seat volunteer-run microcinema in Brooklyn.
No gods, no masters, no concessions.
124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY
https://www.spectacletheater.com/
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
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Florenci Salesas @florencisalesas.bsky.social Recollint pedretes mentre tot s'ensorra
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Zoë Viney Burgess @zoevb.bsky.social Film Curator @ Wessex Film & Sound Archive | Research Women amateur filmmakers | Neighbours Fandom | 9.5mm film geek | Senior Research Fellow UWL | All views are my own | She/her
Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social Film historian, professor, writer, doc filmmaker, lover of nature, travel, and good food. Latest book, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott." Next book: a bio of Dorothy Arzner. https://www.marshagordon.org- M @markj2.bsky.social @markj2.bsky.social
Thomas Beard @thomasbeard.bsky.social Half of @lightindustry.bsky.social
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Sarah-Mai Dang @sarahmaidang.bsky.social Film and Media Studies Scholar | Humboldt Research Fellow | Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie (UZH/ZHdK) | Digital Film and Media History | Cultural Heritage Data | Feminism | Open Science | sarahmaidang.com | @SarahMaiDang@fedihum.org
Mulher no Cinema @mulhernocinema.bsky.social O site que celebra as mulheres nas telas. Escrito pela jornalista Luísa Pécora. www.mulhernocinema.com
Bruno Mestdagh @brnomstdgh.bsky.social 
Clara Auclair @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social Film scholar and preservationist based in Stockholm, Sweden • Current DAVIF fellow at Phillips Universität Marburg • Teaches media studies at DIS Stockholm • Always happy to talk about film, archives and their stories.
Paul S Moore @psmoore.bsky.social Media Historian. Toronto Metropolitan Univ. CoAuthor: The Sunday Paper @UIllinoisPress. Hollywood Publicity | Canadian movie-going & cinemas (he/him)
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
Denis Condon @deniscondon.bsky.social A lot of this will be about cinema. My interests are global but my research is mainly on Ireland a century ago. Lecturer at Maynooth University.
The HoMER Network @homer-network.bsky.social International network of researchers interested in understanding cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Web: https://homernetwork.org/
Des femmes et des archives @womenandarchives.bsky.social Juliet Copeland
𝄐 Archive researcher / documentaliste audiovisuel & apprentie archiviste passée par @l-effet-marguerite.bsky.social
Membre @archivesdufeminism.bsky.social
Donna Hill 💙🇺🇸🐈⬛🎬 @rudyfan.bsky.social Author Rudolph Valentino the Silent Idol, decent cook, terrible housekeeper, currently researching Dorothy Gish, old movies are my jam, currently craving a good hot dog. William H. Powell is my adorable cat and I share pics of him.
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
Claire Cooley @clairescooley.bsky.social current project: sonic infrastructures & middle east & south asia film histories | vera's mom | she/her | 🍉
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
Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Proud feminists behind the WOMEN AND THE SILENT SCREEN conferences and other initiatives and events.
https://www.wfhi.org/
Stummfilm Magazin @stummfilm-magazin.bsky.social Stummfilm Magazin: Filme, Stars, Geschichte, Festivals, Kinotermine und mehr.
Ben Model @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social silent film accompanist-historian-presenter; Undercrank Prods. home video; archivist of Ernie Kovacs television collection
Kristen Hatch @khatch.bsky.social Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine. Research on stardom, film history, childhood and media.
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
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SilentFilmCalendar @silentfilmcalendar.bsky.social The listings site for silent film - your guide to what's on, when and where across the United Kingdom - silentfilmcalendar.org. 
Kristen Wagner @kmaw.bsky.social Film nerd, history nerd, nerd-nerd. Overworked adjunct. Mom to 1 human and 1 cat. Author of Comic Venus: Women & Comedy in American Silent Film
Kristina Köhler @anitsirkk.bsky.social Kunst- und Mediengeschichte @UniCologne | mit einem großen 💜 für frühe Film- und Kinogeschichte | Mode, Stoffe, Texturen, Luftschlangen, Konfetti, Diskokugel in Filmen und im Leben | mother of 2
Enri Ceballos @vitascopian.bsky.social Historia del cine mexicano. Busco a las pioneras.
Candidatura al Doctorado en Historia del Arte UNAM y Dirección General en el Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México.
Dagmar Brunow @dbrunow.bsky.social Professor of film studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Works on audiovisual archives & cultural memory; film historiography & video collectives. Likes bookshops, cinemas, libraries, and archives. 
Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film Studies, specialising in animation, early cinema, film music/sound, advertising and other useful animation.
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
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/
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬
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.
Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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Weimar Film Network @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social https://weimarfilmnetwork3.wordpress.com
Sarah Keller @skkeller.bsky.social Prof of cinema studies and art at UMass Boston, arts enthusiast, apparently resistant to self description
Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social Film & Media Scholar + Historian • Assistant Prof. in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts + Women's and Gender Studies Program, Texas A&M University • PhD '22 @UChicago • Edit. Contributor @WFPProject • Book Reviews Editor EVPC • she/her
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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social NYU.edu/orphanfilm
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social A place for people who love silent film.
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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. 
Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social Occasionally writing
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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
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
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