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Ahead of next week’s premiere of the Guillermo del Toro FrankensteinPo: reposting this piece I wrote back in 2018 for University of London’s Living Frankenstein event: Our cyborg bodies our cyborg selves: www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our (cyborg) bodies, our (cyborg) selves

As we prepare for our Living Frankenstein event, Dr Sarah Artt explores cinema’s enduring fascination with sexually threatening female cyborgs.

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Visual Aroma! films I watched in August: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Viewing Notes/Aromas/Tastes

Flash Gordon, All We Imagine as Light, A Room with a View, and Amadeus

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⛧𝔚𝔶𝔯𝔡 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥⛧ @wyrdwordwitch666.bsky.social · Jul 24

Girls in pink wigs in film 💖

🩷Brigitte Bardot: Two Weeks In September
🩷Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scott Pilgrim
🩷Zoë Kravitz: The Batman
🩷Scarlett Johansson: Lost In Translation
🩷Natalie Portman: Closer
#FilmSky #PinkWigs

Brigitte Bardot
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Zoe Kravitz
Scarlett Johansson
Natalie Portman

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Jul 24

New Visual Aroma! On Roger Vadim’s Barbarella open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Are you telling me you’re building the orgasmatron from Barbarella in your spare time?

Everyone should see Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Jul 14

New Visual Aroma! More about Jeanne Moreau being hot and sexy in Joseph Losey’s Eva

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Very chic. Very expensive

On the precarious glamour of Eva (Joseph Losey, 1962)

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Jun 27

A SPECIAL VISUAL AROMA: On the cult of Lana Del Rey open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Born to Die

On the Cult of Lana Del Rey

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Jun 23

New Visual Aroma! UGLY STEPSISTER: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

“Beauty is pain”

On The Ugly Stepsister/Den stygge stesøsteren (Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt, 2025)

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Jun 12

New Visual Aroma! On Leontine Sagan’s Maidens in Uniform and lending clothes open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Different from the others

On Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform and lending clothes

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · May 25

Cleaning out the garage and forgot I once purchased one of the most unhinged pieces of movie tie-in merchandise ever devised

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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · May 24

Gillian Anderson and Viola Davis at Cannes 2025

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · May 24

Ah thank you so much! I was pleased to find the time to revisit it

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · May 23

why are you getting recommendations from an algorithm when you could be getting them from a beautiful woman

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · May 23

I wrote about Picnic at Hanging Rock! New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

The Dirt and The Swoon

On Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · Apr 24

No Other Land is available to rent directly from the filmmakers (until May 9th I believe) and all proceeds will go directly to those in Masafer Yatta at supportmasaferyatta.com. You can also donate on that same page directly if you've already seen the film or want to give a larger or smaller amount.

Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Apr 23

Is there a way we can let Team Orca know about the cigar-smoking TERF ex writer on a yacht???

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · Jul 28

OMG, look what happened while we were all distracted making fun of the couch fucker
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Killer whales sink $128K yacht in 'terrifying' 2-hour Mediterranean...

"I have a feeling that this group are boat sinkers — I think they knew what they were doing, I’m sure of it."

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Apr 20

Extremely gorgeous turnout for the protest in Edinburgh yesterday #TransLiberationNow

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Apr 17

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"Like a disco ball, staying alive, whatever the cost"

On liberation

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Mar 25

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Trash viewing/comfort viewing

On the stuff you watch when you don't want to watch

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Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social · Mar 16

Linda Williams changed how we see, think, and argue about pornography, desire, and the moving image. Hard Core was the first serious study of porn as film. Porn Studies recently published a special dossier on her contributions to the field: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1....

Porn Studies

Body, Genre, Apparatus: Re-reading Linda Williams on Pornography. Volume 11, Issue 2 of Porn Studies

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Ken Loach & Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social · Mar 3

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Mar 2

If THE SUBSTANCE wins any Oscars tonight, beep me

Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Mar 2

Thank you much Kaz! Really glad this resonated with you 🖤

Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · Feb 27

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

"Strippers make you forget your problems"

On watching Anora (2024), drawing strippers, and being a client

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