edhalter.bsky.social
Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn
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Ah, Liberty!, Ben Rivers, 2008, 16mm, 19 mins
Ten Minutes Older, Herz Frank, 1978, 10 mins
Christmas at Moose Factory, Alanis Obomsawin, 1971, 13 mins
My Name Is Oona, Gunvor Nelson, 1969, 16mm, 10 mins
Excerpt from Mare’s Nest, Ben Rivers, 2025
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Right, this still remains a problem. Queer people don't need to be teaching examples for old Catholics either. Crying Game vibes.
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Anyway my take is that queer people are people, not narrative gimmicks, and Hollywood has yet to catch up with this
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Doing some film criticism for free here for yizall
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Social media, the junk food of social interaction. TLDR: Sir, this is a Wendy's
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And perhaps the most toxic nature of social media is that, as a business, it feeds on this loneliness and attempts to both slake it (momentarily) and enhance it through social discord
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This kind of loneliness is universal and at essence untreatable - we can only manage its pain thru various "defenses" - practices that keep it at bay, that entertain our time and distract from this existential fact
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These were also prompted by reading Melanie Klein on loneliness: nonoedipal.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... - by which she means not being alone but the sense of loneliness we all have even if we are surrounded by friends, family, life
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These are just some random thoughts that came to my head
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I for one long for a return to using social media as a phone call, not a brain implant
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Maybe the zombie nature of much activity here makes this more obvious
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It seems to me that Elon or not the trap of social media remains the same as television ever was, addicting our engagement to grow capital, without concern for consequences. I know this is old news, but the fact that we all know it and yet continue its dominance--more than willingly --is fascinating
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Contributed an essay on the astronomical films of Jeanne Liotta (@laliotta.bsky.social), Johan Lurf and others for Shanay Jhaveri's Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark
www.artbook.com/978375330569...
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reviewed Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow 4columns.org/halter-ed/i-...
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looked at Wolf Vostell at Harvard Art Museums 4columns.org/halter-ed/wo...
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Screen Slate SF ran an excerpt of an essay on my late friend Luther Price www.screenslate.com/articles/lut...
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Happy holidaze