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James Leo Cahill
@jamesleocahill.bsky.social
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Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 3h
A hush fell over Morristown.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 3h
Back in a NY groove.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 9h
www.film.cam.ac.uk/events/le-te...
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 23h
My favourite moment in Bresson's Un condamné à mort s'est échappé.
A glowing white dog runs across the road in Robert Bresson's Un condamné à mort s'est échappé / A Man Escaped (1956).
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 1d
Giving a talk at Cambridge University on October 28th, details to come, but the title is "Le temps de chien: Stray exposures in the shadow of Vesuvius." Passing through London the next day, in case we're pals or should be...
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 1d
Cannot stop thinking of the footage of sleeping pigs. What a haunting film.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 2d
Rest easy D'Angelo.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 2d
ms.interpretation: feminist journal of critical her-men-eutics...
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 2d
Maud Alpi's Gorge Cœur Ventre (2016) is both extraordinarily difficult to watch and something of a miracle. Can I recommend it? Yes, if you are willing to absorb the repressed violence of carnivorous cultures.
Boston, the canine star of Maud Alpi's Gorge Cœur Ventre wandering among detritus and transfixed by a beam of sunlight.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 2d
Today's best typo: infraüstructures. It's yours if you need it fellow scholars.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 5d
Was I totally enthralled with One Battle After Another? Yeah.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 8d
I must have accidentally blocked the MacArthur Foundation again… If you’re trying to reach me, I accept! I promise to be an inspiration to lazy people everywhere.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks Pascal. I hadn't only because I'm trying to show it on Thursday, but never hurts to track a copy down so I'll check. I've seen the film at the BiFi and as part of the two other films. All of this just for a camera by a stray dog!
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 9d
My kingdom* for the Lumière's "Faux cul-de-jatte" (1897). I know it appears in Le Cinéma, une histoire des plans as well as in Lumière, l'aventure continue, but neither seem available on short notice in Canada. The library catalogue entry claimed it was on the DVD we own, but it t'wasn't. *MAV
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 16d
By the time I came back home they were gone.
A line of seven industrial vacuum or carpet cleaners basking in the morning sun by the curb of Dundas Street West. Not entirely sure which they are.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 18d
That’s an eastern carpenter bee. 🐝
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 18d
Checking in on the neighbours…
A bumble bee in flight against some flowers.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 18d
Checking in on the neighbours…
A bumble bee in flight against some flowers.
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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · 19d
But the paperbacks are beautiful and cheap -- no, not free -- but only $18.99
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19d
Clams Casino and the Baby Prof having a good time: 2 dachshund-jack Russell terrier mixes wrestling on a sofa.
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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 21d
When the sketch is not sketching, and you need to summon the old gods...
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 21d
Explaining to a graduate seminar the smell of the NJ Turnpike circa 1984…
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24d
Teaching Les Parapluies de Cherbourg this week. Not sure the students know what they're in for. "Mais, c'est etrange, le soleil et la mort voyagent ensemble..."
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24d
Love to see Jacques Demy street-teaming for Varda's Cléo...
Frame capture from Les parapluies de Cherbourg which features a prominent if torn up poster for Cléo de 5 à 7 in the background.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24d
This is all so embarrassing and stupid.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24d
Love to see Jacques Demy street-teaming for Varda's Cléo...
Frame capture from Les parapluies de Cherbourg which features a prominent if torn up poster for Cléo de 5 à 7 in the background.
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24d
Who wore it better?
Trick question, they both did.
Sailor from Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin covered in a dot pattern from the grill of the ship. Dita Parlo covered in surrealist spots in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante.
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