Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto @csi-uoft.bsky.social The Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto offers one of Canada's most innovative Film Studies programs. CSI turned 50 in 2025.
@brenked60.bsky.social @brenked60.bsky.social Cinephile and music nerd. Retired film lecturer.
Seeking shelter from the Storm.
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row.
Rejoin the EU NOW!
COYS
Repost! Repost! @repostrepost.bsky.social Frederick Post: Amateur, Dabbler and Dilettante. Mostly Reposts + Images + Occasional AI Slop.
Berfinco @berfinco.bsky.social
Koyacat @mysteryimage.bsky.social writer, curator, cat lady, flowers
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.
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Matt Parry @mattjparry.bsky.social Forever listening to Kiss of Life by Sade
(PhD @ Cambridge Film and Screen looking at experimental East German cinema)
Skye Balou @skyebalou.bsky.social 🇺🇦🦋 #LocalHero Brit Awake
Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
AidinAzarkerdar| AidinVision @aidinvisionco.bsky.social Aidin Azarkerdar | Film Editor | Independent Researcher| humanities| Media studies | Film Studies | Pop Culture | Visual communication
He/Him
@aimeele.bsky.social @aimeele.bsky.social
Raz O'Connor @raz-oconnor.bsky.social Singer & Socialistparty.org.uk member (personal capacity) posting daily music & politics videos
https://www.tiktok.com/@raz.oconnor?_t=ZN-8zWxurMJ7cU&_r=
ry @rydotjpg.bsky.social mostly here to hang out and talk about movies 🏳️⚧️
Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social writer and editor // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, MUBI/Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social academic. i think about cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Mark Foley @markmusicbox.bsky.social Making Music in Cardiff
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
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Amy Rust @amyrust74.bsky.social Passionate Detachments @sunypress.bsky.social / Scale in the Age of Satellites and Television @mediaenviron.bsky.social
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social Film & Theatre scholar - Livecasting, remediation, intermediality, medium identity.
Thesis: Both Grand and Intimate - UK Livecasting From 2009 to Now
Actually autistic, sometimes writer, cat person. (She/Her)
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
lillian @justunderscore.bsky.social It is I, Leclerc.
Film studies, filmmaking, TV, screenwriting. film archives. @tripshuman on IG
Alex K @alexik.bsky.social Media & academia.
I write about movies, music & more.
David Lynch called me Alexander the Great.
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Herr Producer @herrproducer.bsky.social Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
Engineering serendipity on a daily basis.
Jeffrey W. Peterson @jeffwp11.bsky.social
Tomáš Jirsa @tomasjirsa.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Palacký University Olomouc
Music Video Studies | Media Theory | Affect Theory
Working in and on East-Central Europe
Author of Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (2021)
https://upol.academia.edu/TomasJirsa
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social teaching Film at KCL | editor at world picture | author of The Seduction of Space (U Minnesota Press 2025) and Hotels (Fordham UP 2025). Account not in regular use.
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
J. Makary @jmakary.bsky.social Filmmaker and PhD candidate @ Stanford. Avant-garde cinema, critical AI, and philosophy of perception.
FfS FfilmSchool.org @ffilmschool.bsky.social FfilmSchool.org is a anti-extractivist documentary film school in Dyfi, Cymru. Jan-Jun 2026.
FfS - we can make film better.
Relearning filmmaking for a radically abundant future.
Ffilm Cymru Wales & co2re funded.
james r price @iagoaprhys.bsky.social (he/him) (fe/nhw)
Doc Filmmaker. Lecturer. PAR in anti-extractivist doc-making and its education.
nahemi Green & Documentary officer.
BAFTSS Media+ Environment SIG CoConvenor.
CCFC🔴⚪️🔴
Ouseburn, Tyne, Brynaich, Prytain.
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social 💜 Movement & Arts
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social arm the scroungers
Roberto Rodríguez @robertorgvz.bsky.social Investigador predoctoral en la Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación de la Universidad de Murcia. 🌞📷
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Philippa Lovatt @philippalovatt.bsky.social
Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social The writings of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, pure metaphysician.
Hiraeth Film @hiraethfilm.bsky.social Shwmae ! We're a small YouTube channel creating in-depth documentaries on Welsh History. We believe that Wales is full of interesting stories, and we aim to bring them to a new audience on YouTube.
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
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USC Cinema & Media Studies
but opinions my own
Abby Kirby @abbykirby.bsky.social Middle school ELA// MA in Media Studies// Fandom Researcher// Gravity Falls & Psych Fan// Fanfic Enthusiast
Allison Cooper @kinolab.bsky.social Director, Kinolab; Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College; Video Essayist.
@brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social Academic. Writer. Author of Hawaii Five-O (TV Milestone) from Wayne State Univ. Press. Fascinated by TV, film, and gender studies, especially American masculinities.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Peter Roger Sutcliffe @sut79.bsky.social No, not that one…
Postgraduate Researcher, working on a project concerning the importance of cinemas to their communities.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3gR0X
He/him
Crosby, Merseyside
tyaspac @tyaspac.bsky.social
Alex Pickett @alexpickett.bsky.social Short-story collection CAMERA LAKE and novel THE RESTAURANT INSPECTOR now available (both from @uwiscpress.bsky.social). PhD researcher at the University of Westminster, UK. Website: https://www.rapickett.com/
@ianfleishman.bsky.social @ianfleishman.bsky.social
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Frank Milligan @milliganfrank.bsky.social
Michael Sherman @michaelsherman.bsky.social as solid as they come
Film and Moving Image Studies MA at Concordia University
N.Srikanth @drsrikanth.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Media Studies @GITAMUniversity, Hyderabad; PhD @IIT Tirupati; MPhil @JNU, New Delhi; MA @HydUniv; BA @EFLU, Hyderabad; first-gen student
Ben Mendelsohn @benmen.bsky.social researcher-filmmaker-educator-aspiring drummer
assistant professor of film and digital culture, portland state university
Ry Montgomery @rymontgomery.bsky.social PhD researching Francophone trans’ and queer visual cultures • 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
@cinemaparadise.bsky.social @cinemaparadise.bsky.social
Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social Mostly posts about film and television, architecture and design, music and photography. Professor. Dept. of English, U of Winnipeg. he/him.
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
Christopher Sieving @soulburger26.bsky.social Minnesota person, cinema scholar, author of Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (Indiana University Press, 2022), impostor.
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
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
Sam Reimer @sjreimer.bsky.social
Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social I teach Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University
Film, chess, backgammon, guitar, phenomenology, Lagavulin, Godard, Varda, Rohmer, Cavell, Bazin, Kracauer…
Lived Moments: Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)
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. Sooke🇨🇦 / Santa Cruz🇺🇸
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.
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.