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.
Vincent Gasparro needs to resign. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/ontario/cbsa...
CBSA, PMO say they were not involved in MP announcing ban on Belfast band Kneecap
OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency and the Prime Minister's Office say they were not involved in an Ontario Liberal MP's announcement that members of the Belfast band Kneecap
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Vincent Gasparro needs to resign. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/ontario/cbsa...
I really like the new K-Lone LP: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
K-LONE: sorry i thought you were someone else
Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I really like the new K-Lone LP: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
I want to read a history of Duralex. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
The brand, which evokes nostalgia and pride, hit its €5m fundraising target within hours and orders have soared
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I want to read a history of Duralex. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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We love a good #amateurcinema story!
"Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?” via @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
"Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?” via @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?
Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time and at the forefront of a transformative period in Irish society
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We love a good #amateurcinema story!
"Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?” via @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
"Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?” via @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
My book came out in 2019, so I am sure I will be fine. 😬
Not sure I'll finish The Beast in Me. It's good, but there's no way it can top the moment of absolute horror midway through the first episode when Mathew Rhys says, "When did your first book come out? Oh, 2018? That's a long time to go without a follow-up!"
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My book came out in 2019, so I am sure I will be fine. 😬
This is such a great film. Highly recommend.
We're halfway through #Noirvember already!
Another film to add to your line-up, that you may not have seen, is An Unsuitable Job For A Woman.
After finding her boss dead, Cordelia takes over his detective agency and gets entangled in a web of dark secrets...
Available here: tinyurl.com/5ybu5euh
Another film to add to your line-up, that you may not have seen, is An Unsuitable Job For A Woman.
After finding her boss dead, Cordelia takes over his detective agency and gets entangled in a web of dark secrets...
Available here: tinyurl.com/5ybu5euh
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is such a great film. Highly recommend.
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Now available online!
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Now available online!
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
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The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
cstonline.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
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New Order released Movement on this day in 1981. Peter Saville's beautiful cover was based on Fortunato Depero's Futurismo design from 1932
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New Order released Movement on this day in 1981. Peter Saville's beautiful cover was based on Fortunato Depero's Futurismo design from 1932
This new Lynne Sachs picture sounds like my kind of film. festival.idfa.nl/en/film/50b2...
Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2025) | IDFA Festival
Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs has collected 600 business cards—from a hairdresser, a therapist, a textile artist. Together they form an archive of encounters. The title of this imaginative e...
festival.idfa.nl
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This new Lynne Sachs picture sounds like my kind of film. festival.idfa.nl/en/film/50b2...
Not sure why the IDFA in Amsterdam is showing a late 1970s NFB film on government bureaucracy, but I love that they are: festival.idfa.nl/en/compositi...
Paperland: The Bureacrat Observed & Fellow Citizen | IDFA Festival
During this screening, the film Paperland: The Bureacrat Observed will be followed by Fellow Citizen.
festival.idfa.nl
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Not sure why the IDFA in Amsterdam is showing a late 1970s NFB film on government bureaucracy, but I love that they are: festival.idfa.nl/en/compositi...
This is the stupidest and most embarrassing way to phrase this. Universities really just want to be sports owners or something now, boarding about signings and transfers. www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
New constellation of academic stars headed to U of T
In a “big win for Canada,” the University of Toronto is further strengthening its academic ranks with three top researchers from U.S. universities whose work ranges from the search for new planets to ...
www.utoronto.ca
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is the stupidest and most embarrassing way to phrase this. Universities really just want to be sports owners or something now, boarding about signings and transfers. www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...
Toronto friends! Mark your calendars for this TIFF Lightbox screening on December 3rd of some magical films from the Winnipeg Film Group: tiff.net/events/heart...
Heart of the World: 50 years of the Winnipeg Film Group
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.
tiff.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Toronto friends! Mark your calendars for this TIFF Lightbox screening on December 3rd of some magical films from the Winnipeg Film Group: tiff.net/events/heart...
Montreal friends! If you want to experience some of Winnipeg's madness, you must not miss Daniel Barrow's WINNIPEG BABYSITTER! en.dazibao.art/session-40-d...
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Montreal friends! If you want to experience some of Winnipeg's madness, you must not miss Daniel Barrow's WINNIPEG BABYSITTER! en.dazibao.art/session-40-d...
Great writing in here, esp from William Prince and Bob Stanley. I am a Neil conventionalist, I suppose, cause I would go with “After the Gold Rush.”
The great Neil Young turns 80 tomorrow.
To celebrate, we asked 80 artists including Jeff Tweedy, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, Michael Stipe, Open Mike Eagle, Jewel, Tom Morello, Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, A-Trak, and many more about their favorite Neil song:
To celebrate, we asked 80 artists including Jeff Tweedy, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, Michael Stipe, Open Mike Eagle, Jewel, Tom Morello, Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, A-Trak, and many more about their favorite Neil song:
80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song
Happy 80th birthday, Neil Young!
stereogum.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great writing in here, esp from William Prince and Bob Stanley. I am a Neil conventionalist, I suppose, cause I would go with “After the Gold Rush.”
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not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
I never realized that the cover of Sloan's Navy Blues was based on a Polish film poster from 1959: posteritati.com/poster/35428...
Night Train Original 1959 Polish A0 Movie Poster
Original 1959 Polish A0 poster by Wojciech Zamecznik for the film Night Train (Pociag) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz with Lucyna Winnicka / Leon Niemczyk / Teresa Szmigielowna / Zbigniew Cybulski.
posteritati.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I never realized that the cover of Sloan's Navy Blues was based on a Polish film poster from 1959: posteritati.com/poster/35428...
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WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
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TONIGHT! A YEAR IN A FIELD screens at Winnipeg's Dave Barber Cinematheque at 5:15pm as part of the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival. See the trailer below:
youtu.be/37-oipXz2WE?...
youtu.be/37-oipXz2WE?...
A YEAR IN A FIELD - Teaser
YouTube video by Spectacular Optical
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
TONIGHT! A YEAR IN A FIELD screens at Winnipeg's Dave Barber Cinematheque at 5:15pm as part of the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival. See the trailer below:
youtu.be/37-oipXz2WE?...
youtu.be/37-oipXz2WE?...
Being John Smith available this week via Le Cinéma Club: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
BEING JOHN SMITH a film by JOHN SMITH.
A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.
www.lecinemaclub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Being John Smith available this week via Le Cinéma Club: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
I just watched Undercurrent and loved it. This Lincoln Center season of films by Kōzaburō Yoshimura looks so good. www.filmlinc.org/daily/flc-an...
FLC Announces “Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion,” a Retrospective of Overlooked Filmmaker from the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema, December 5–11
Film at Lincoln Center announces “Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion,” a retrospective of 13 films by one of the most accomplished yet underappreciated figures of the golden age of Japanese cinema.
www.filmlinc.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I just watched Undercurrent and loved it. This Lincoln Center season of films by Kōzaburō Yoshimura looks so good. www.filmlinc.org/daily/flc-an...
the budget, in all its emphasis on (and funds for) recruiting assistant professors internationally, seems completely oblivious to the fact that there are any number of candidates domestically who are as strong as anyone else. it is an interesting kind of national self-loathing.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
the budget, in all its emphasis on (and funds for) recruiting assistant professors internationally, seems completely oblivious to the fact that there are any number of candidates domestically who are as strong as anyone else. it is an interesting kind of national self-loathing.
Reading up on the Listers and Letterboxd controversy, which invites all kinds of questions about the drive for cinematic big years, the desire for lifers, what counts as a film, the politics of platform moderation, and a whole bunch of other things.
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reading up on the Listers and Letterboxd controversy, which invites all kinds of questions about the drive for cinematic big years, the desire for lifers, what counts as a film, the politics of platform moderation, and a whole bunch of other things.
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Wow I never knew the original subtitle
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Wow I never knew the original subtitle