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Joe Fordham
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Filmmaker (glitchsite.com), writer of books, screenplays, and (2001-2021) a million-plus words for Cinefex magazine. https://linktr.ee/flashfilms
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Aug 29
My Flashfilms website is now new and shiny. Details at the blog, or cut to the chase at flashfilms.us

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Flashfilms Redux
Flashfilms gets a makeover.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 9h
I ran into a gaggle of them in DC in September 2009, while attending a film festival, and I thought, ‘What a bunch of nincompoops…’ (I turned all their placards into ads for my short film) flic.kr/p/6YRE7f
DC Shorts 2009 - 117
Saturday morning, on my way to the National Gallery before the day's batch of DC Shorts, I ran into a horde of concerned citizens exercising their democratic rites.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks. DM me if MrZ would like his art turned into a little toon (P.S. I am slow, no AI, do it all by hand)
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 1d
I could turn those awesome drawings into a public service message video (as I have done to my nephew’s art) if you are a fan of rinky-tink animation: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWL4...
Felix Blues
YouTube video by DerwentFlametube
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 4d
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Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (Video Version)
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 4d
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER 😳
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 5d
When I interviewed screenwriter Brannon Braga about "Star Trek: First Contact," he told me Virginia's performance as the disembodied head of 'Jan in the Pan' was inspiration for the Borg Queen's head being lowered onto her body. 🖖🤓
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 7d
I don't have any pics from "Brainscan," but this is from another XFX production a few years later, an abandoned production of "The Hulk" (I am in back, touching fingers with the big guy) flic.kr/p/mNmbvB
XFX Hulk 1997
Eric Fiedler, Bob Newton and crew in Steve Johnson's XFX mechanical department and some of Kerry Gammill's designs for "Hulk" blown up to life-size from December 1997.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 8d
This is on my resume—not as a writer, I hasten to add; I was a drongo at XFX, the people that did Trickster’s makeup and other nasty things *bows_extravagantly*
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 11d
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 12d
My ❤️
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 22d
10 years ago, Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” inspired one of my purple-prose Flashfilms reviews: shorturl.at/fHKJM Revisiting the film tonight, a scene jumped out at me where an FBI agent (Scott Shepherd) is pushing Hanks to violate his attorney/client oath. Resonant today:

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What Makes Us Americans - Bridge Of Spies (2015)
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 23d
There is nothing wrong with your television set...

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TV Zanti
Arty retro TV effect
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 26d
Podcast headline: Bulk Goes Balls-Out on Thunderball!
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 27d
Thanks, Leah. Impact was a while ago; but Dodo Man is still a favorite project.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 27d
I commissioned this beautiful conceptual painting by Miles Teves for "The Dodo Man" after my story received attention as finalist for Ron Howard's Imagine Impact. Unveiled here as part of my Flashfilms redux: flashfilms.us/the-dodo-man #ScriptSky #MilesTeves 🦤

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The Dodo Man
Conceptual art by Miles Teves. Extract from 'The Dodo Man' screenplay by Joe Fordham: "Out of the undergrowth, a second bird appears – a sleeker, slighter FATHER DODO. It rams into the dog’s ribs. T...
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 29d
Look, I hate to bring this up, but this isn’t sca commercial ship, not a rescue ship. And I want talk about the bonus situation. Can we just talk about the bonus situation? 👽👾🛸
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 17
Few films have the power of this American cinema classic. #Redford #Hoffman #Holbrook #Goldman #Willis #Shire #Pakula
Harsh cross-lighting in a parking garage illuminates the face of Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat in “All The President’s Men.”
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 17
Randy Newman and Caleb Deschanel, ASC, knock the cover off the ball. Was just spinning that old vinyl. Terrific work from Barry Levinson and, of course, Redford as Roy Hobbs.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 14
If a brave animator out there would be interested in resurrecting this weird little project with me, let me know #animation #debussy #weird
flashfilms.bsky.social Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 12
Poster for an animated short that I developed with some friends years ago, now featured as a screenplay link (with music) at flashfilms.us #ClaudeDebussy #animation #ScriptSky
Speculative movie poster depicting a vast cathedral-like office space with hundreds of desks lit by a piercing blue laser light, while far above them the tiny figure of a tea lady lowers from the ceiling.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 12
Poster for an animated short that I developed with some friends years ago, now featured as a screenplay link (with music) at flashfilms.us #ClaudeDebussy #animation #ScriptSky
Speculative movie poster depicting a vast cathedral-like office space with hundreds of desks lit by a piercing blue laser light, while far above them the tiny figure of a tea lady lowers from the ceiling.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 11
Music for the wee hours… Sleepless Night, and three other cues, from maestro Laurent Watteau’s score to “The Glitch” — part of Flashfilms’ new special features. flashfilms.bandcamp.com/track/the-gl...
The Glitch suite, by Laurent Watteau
track by Laurent Watteau
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 5
“Idiocracy” was a prophecy.
A still from the film “Idiocracy” portraying the destruction of the White House lawn.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 5
Gordon’s alive?!
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 4
My latest creature creations: 🎼 Little Creatures. Creatures of lurrve… 🎶 flashfilms8.wixsite.com/flashfilms/p...
Little Creatures
How I started sculpting little creatures.
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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · Sep 4
Long live the New Flesh!
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