Bertrom.
@bertrom.bsky.social
In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima, and some purpose.
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A year ago today, 25 November.
Very festive…
Very festive…
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A year ago today, 25 November.
Very festive…
Very festive…
Prince Street Girls.
Susan Meiselas.
Her series documented the daily lives of a group of local Italian-American pre-teen girls, who in the mid-1970s made the corner of Prince Street and Mott street their stomping ground.
Susan Meiselas.
Her series documented the daily lives of a group of local Italian-American pre-teen girls, who in the mid-1970s made the corner of Prince Street and Mott street their stomping ground.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Prince Street Girls.
Susan Meiselas.
Her series documented the daily lives of a group of local Italian-American pre-teen girls, who in the mid-1970s made the corner of Prince Street and Mott street their stomping ground.
Susan Meiselas.
Her series documented the daily lives of a group of local Italian-American pre-teen girls, who in the mid-1970s made the corner of Prince Street and Mott street their stomping ground.
Jack Hulme.
Fryston, West Yorkshire.
Mr Nutter of Kells.
The kitchen was our classroom Where we learned to read and write.
Old lass Morgan laid people out. That’s her and her sister.
My parents were so close and devoted.
They even soaked their false teeth together in the same glass.
Fryston, West Yorkshire.
Mr Nutter of Kells.
The kitchen was our classroom Where we learned to read and write.
Old lass Morgan laid people out. That’s her and her sister.
My parents were so close and devoted.
They even soaked their false teeth together in the same glass.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Jack Hulme.
Fryston, West Yorkshire.
Mr Nutter of Kells.
The kitchen was our classroom Where we learned to read and write.
Old lass Morgan laid people out. That’s her and her sister.
My parents were so close and devoted.
They even soaked their false teeth together in the same glass.
Fryston, West Yorkshire.
Mr Nutter of Kells.
The kitchen was our classroom Where we learned to read and write.
Old lass Morgan laid people out. That’s her and her sister.
My parents were so close and devoted.
They even soaked their false teeth together in the same glass.
Tala Madani.
Guts.
2011.
A clownish chattering man, his punctured belly a see-through hole, attempts a comfortable conversation with his own bloody red innards, piled up in the other seat.
Guts.
2011.
A clownish chattering man, his punctured belly a see-through hole, attempts a comfortable conversation with his own bloody red innards, piled up in the other seat.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Tala Madani.
Guts.
2011.
A clownish chattering man, his punctured belly a see-through hole, attempts a comfortable conversation with his own bloody red innards, piled up in the other seat.
Guts.
2011.
A clownish chattering man, his punctured belly a see-through hole, attempts a comfortable conversation with his own bloody red innards, piled up in the other seat.
The unknown narrators of novels can tell us who other people really are; we can never know that ourselves. All we can do is read novels and love those other people anyway.
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A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre explores what it’s like being human in relation to other human beings
A tale of one friendship over 20 years between a narrator and doomed woman.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The unknown narrators of novels can tell us who other people really are; we can never know that ourselves. All we can do is read novels and love those other people anyway.
theconversation.com/a-leopard-sk...
theconversation.com/a-leopard-sk...
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
A blend of beautiful music and socially conscious lyrics became a core part of his artistry.
A blend of beautiful music and socially conscious lyrics became a core part of his artistry.
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
A blend of beautiful music and socially conscious lyrics became a core part of his artistry.
A blend of beautiful music and socially conscious lyrics became a core part of his artistry.
If I was still teaching my photography classes, I would be putting together a huge retrospective of his work.
I love his journey so much.
Truly remarkable.
I love his journey so much.
Truly remarkable.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If I was still teaching my photography classes, I would be putting together a huge retrospective of his work.
I love his journey so much.
Truly remarkable.
I love his journey so much.
Truly remarkable.
Walker Evans.
“With the Polaroid SX-70, Evans exposed photography to its core essence; the art of seeing, selecting and capturing”.
“With the Polaroid SX-70, Evans exposed photography to its core essence; the art of seeing, selecting and capturing”.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Walker Evans.
“With the Polaroid SX-70, Evans exposed photography to its core essence; the art of seeing, selecting and capturing”.
“With the Polaroid SX-70, Evans exposed photography to its core essence; the art of seeing, selecting and capturing”.
Gertrude Abercrombie.
The Church.
1938.
The Church.
1938.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Gertrude Abercrombie.
The Church.
1938.
The Church.
1938.
On screen, he had an immediate charisma, which lent itself well to playing eccentric types such as Boudu the tramp. It was a role that Renoir wrote for Simon, to bring out what the film-maker identified as his complex, nonconformist nature.
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Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’ — The Guardian
Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos
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November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
On screen, he had an immediate charisma, which lent itself well to playing eccentric types such as Boudu the tramp. It was a role that Renoir wrote for Simon, to bring out what the film-maker identified as his complex, nonconformist nature.
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I took the bus to Liverpool recently.
I know the streets like the back of my hand. I spent years, since the 80s directing plays, teaching, making films, that enriched my life immeasurably. Then I saw this.
Liverpool has changed so much. I understand that life moves on. But at what cost?
I know the streets like the back of my hand. I spent years, since the 80s directing plays, teaching, making films, that enriched my life immeasurably. Then I saw this.
Liverpool has changed so much. I understand that life moves on. But at what cost?
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I took the bus to Liverpool recently.
I know the streets like the back of my hand. I spent years, since the 80s directing plays, teaching, making films, that enriched my life immeasurably. Then I saw this.
Liverpool has changed so much. I understand that life moves on. But at what cost?
I know the streets like the back of my hand. I spent years, since the 80s directing plays, teaching, making films, that enriched my life immeasurably. Then I saw this.
Liverpool has changed so much. I understand that life moves on. But at what cost?
Been here before.
A path I have travelled so often.
A path I have travelled so often.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Been here before.
A path I have travelled so often.
A path I have travelled so often.
The Future is Now: Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’ Paints a Bleak Picture of a World Devoid of Humanity.
A brilliant prescient film by an astonishing director and DOP; Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki.
A masterpiece of cinema.
cinephiliabeyond.org/children-of-...
A brilliant prescient film by an astonishing director and DOP; Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki.
A masterpiece of cinema.
cinephiliabeyond.org/children-of-...
The Future is Now: Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’ Paints a Bleak Picture of a World Devoid of Humanity • Cinephilia & Beyond
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki. Production stills by Jaap Buitendijk © Universal Pictures By Koraljka Suton Almost two decades ago, director Alfonso Cuarón’s fourth feature, the 2001 sexual road co...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Future is Now: Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’ Paints a Bleak Picture of a World Devoid of Humanity.
A brilliant prescient film by an astonishing director and DOP; Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki.
A masterpiece of cinema.
cinephiliabeyond.org/children-of-...
A brilliant prescient film by an astonishing director and DOP; Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki.
A masterpiece of cinema.
cinephiliabeyond.org/children-of-...
Ragnar Axelsson.
'His face seemed to reach right back to the Vikings'
Guðjón, a farmer takes a walk along the black volcanic beach.
He was looking for a mink that had been killing his eider ducks. There was a moody atmosphere.
1995.
'His face seemed to reach right back to the Vikings'
Guðjón, a farmer takes a walk along the black volcanic beach.
He was looking for a mink that had been killing his eider ducks. There was a moody atmosphere.
1995.
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Ragnar Axelsson.
'His face seemed to reach right back to the Vikings'
Guðjón, a farmer takes a walk along the black volcanic beach.
He was looking for a mink that had been killing his eider ducks. There was a moody atmosphere.
1995.
'His face seemed to reach right back to the Vikings'
Guðjón, a farmer takes a walk along the black volcanic beach.
He was looking for a mink that had been killing his eider ducks. There was a moody atmosphere.
1995.
Krass Clement.
Drum: A Place in Ireland.
1996.
His series pursues “the exploration of place as a reflection of the inner psyche”.
This man appears to be a personification of both the dingy bar and the lonely, foggy town of Drum.
Drum: A Place in Ireland.
1996.
His series pursues “the exploration of place as a reflection of the inner psyche”.
This man appears to be a personification of both the dingy bar and the lonely, foggy town of Drum.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Krass Clement.
Drum: A Place in Ireland.
1996.
His series pursues “the exploration of place as a reflection of the inner psyche”.
This man appears to be a personification of both the dingy bar and the lonely, foggy town of Drum.
Drum: A Place in Ireland.
1996.
His series pursues “the exploration of place as a reflection of the inner psyche”.
This man appears to be a personification of both the dingy bar and the lonely, foggy town of Drum.
André Kertész.
Polaroids.
In 1979 Kertész was selected as one of an exclusive group of artists who trialled the SX-70 camera for the Polaroid Corporation.
Polaroids.
In 1979 Kertész was selected as one of an exclusive group of artists who trialled the SX-70 camera for the Polaroid Corporation.
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
André Kertész.
Polaroids.
In 1979 Kertész was selected as one of an exclusive group of artists who trialled the SX-70 camera for the Polaroid Corporation.
Polaroids.
In 1979 Kertész was selected as one of an exclusive group of artists who trialled the SX-70 camera for the Polaroid Corporation.
Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty.
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise.
New Brighton.
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise.
New Brighton.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty.
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise.
New Brighton.
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise.
New Brighton.
Hadžihalilović might intend us to notice in one shot a movie poster for The Red Shoes, but the Powell/Pressburger film that this more resembles is surely Black Narcissus with its female desire and delirium in the bitter mountain cold.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale
Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unwholesome story of yearning
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hadžihalilović might intend us to notice in one shot a movie poster for The Red Shoes, but the Powell/Pressburger film that this more resembles is surely Black Narcissus with its female desire and delirium in the bitter mountain cold.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Dawoud Bey was given his first 35 mm camera at age 15. Several years later, in 1975, he’d begin one of the most influential careers in photography.
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Dawoud Bey was given his first 35 mm camera at age 15. Several years later, in 1975, he’d begin one of the most influential careers in photography.
Yes.
Another one of those days.
Another one of those days.
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yes.
Another one of those days.
Another one of those days.
Merry Christmas From Lee Friedlander.
Is Christmas in America a religious holiday? A commercial precept? An ironic commentary? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? All or none of the above?
Is Christmas in America a religious holiday? A commercial precept? An ironic commentary? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? All or none of the above?
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Merry Christmas From Lee Friedlander.
Is Christmas in America a religious holiday? A commercial precept? An ironic commentary? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? All or none of the above?
Is Christmas in America a religious holiday? A commercial precept? An ironic commentary? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? All or none of the above?