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Holly Antrum

@hollyantrum.bsky.social

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She/Her. Artist, filmmaker and researcher (UK). Films distributed by LUX Artists' Moving Image. https://linktr.ee/holly___antrum Techne AHRC PhD w/ Kingston University and British Film Institute, 'Notes Freely Created and Kept: Researching to Imagine'

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · Jan 24

Helloooo! Here's a flighty lil' gif I actually made myself last autumn... I was inviting friends to come and fly kites with me. Perhaps starting off here is something like that. Blessings for the timeline (do we still say that on this platform?) 🦋

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 2d

Friday 10 October - Join John Troyer & artist Jordan Baseman in this participatory screening & discussion group focused on Derek Jarman’s Blue at Rame Projects, Cornwall. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deathland-...

DeathLand Reading Group w/ John Troyer. Screening of Blue by Derek Jarman.

Join John Troyer & artist Jordan Baseman in this participatory screening & discussion group focused on Derek Jarman’s Blue at Rame Projects

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 2d

Completely underestimated the amount of work for turning an informal 20-min slide talk that then became a 6000-word peer reviewed article, back into a 20-min slide talk but better.

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations 😊

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 2d

[ALBUM PREMIER: EVERYONE I LOVE IS SLEEPING AND I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH BY YARA ASMAR] - 'YARA ASMAR - EVERYONE I LOVE IS SLEEPING AND I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH'

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 2d

Radio Al-Hara is a nice place to have your ears tonight live from Palestine

www.radioalhara.net

Radio Alhara

Radio AlHara راديو الحارة

www.radioalhara.net

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8d

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 10d

ACE funding: If you're applying for Arts Council England under £30k Project Grants and use our templates, make sure you download the newest version rather than using an old one as we've updated it to reflect the new form www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar...

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 10d

Yet another reminder to the UK of what follows every time from right wing populist lawmakers - they scapegoat minorities as if to answer a country's problems.

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 10d

I follow Czech and Slovak politics a bit, many have seen this coming - if you follow certain MEPs you will have.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Slovakia marks ‘dark day’ as LGBTQ+ rights rolled back in parliament

Amendment to constitution stipulates that male and female are the only recognised sexes and makes adoption nearly impossible for same-sex couples

www.theguardian.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 11d

City Hall: Experts at King’s College London estimated that, from when the Mayor came into office in 2016, without additional action it would take 193 years for London to meet legal limits. It has been achieved in nine years.

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 11d

Amazing 💚 During a 5 yr live-work artist residency on a major London arterial road (7 lanes, constant traffic)... I used Kings College air quality mappers to learn that the address was double the legal limit of NO2 (very bad indeed). Needless to say I completed many public consultations FOR ULEZ!

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 11d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 11d

Second time I've opened up Facebook and seen that far right reels are being suggested to my page! After march on 13 September I reported a handful of the hateful comments on the reels I saw, which FB moderation rejected. This concurs with The Guardian's findings about Meta's new moderation policy.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

Guardian investigation into Facebook groups with 600k members in which the kind of extreme dehumanising language that socialises racist violence is rife. Facebook has become more permissive towards extreme content in the last year.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

www.theguardian.com

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 18d

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 12d

Looking forward to presenting an adaptation of a forthcoming journal essay (which I am very excited about, more soon hopefully) at Beyond The Pastoral Symposium on 10 October at University of Brighton. #techneahrc #academicsky

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 13d

Canadian poet, Erin Robinsong performs her poem 'Anemone' from her collection 'Wet Dream' - last Saturday on stage with acapella collective HOWL @hiddennotes.bsky.social, Stroud UK 💙 Such stage presence

(my trimmed bsky clip excludes huge applause & HOWL's beautiful musical rendering of the poem!)

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Mar 17

But you actually can’t kill beauty
So the economy is very unstable

Erin Robinsong (Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022)

THE FORCES THE FORMS

This form of life eats beauty
Eats beauty to survive

Beauty its fuel, trashed beauty
At all costs is the economy

But you actually can't kill beauty
So the economy is very unstable

So beauty, but beauty will
Eat the economy

Beauty will unmake
Computers and the shame

Shapes we made tending
Them. Love will eat our brains

When we're tired
Of not checking the source

World without brains
World without checking the source

Of the world
Without checking the source of the forces the forms

What else aren't we knowing
If we don't know
How to make beauty again
How to unstitch ourselves

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Charlie @queertranslations.bsky.social · Jun 14

anyone using cinelogue? im very curious going to subscribe next month

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 14d

Despite how much I have enjoyed using Mubi over the years, I have just cancelled my Mubi subscription until Mubi meets the demands of @filmworks4pal.bsky.social and Sequoia Capital divests from the streaming brand. Art should not serve genociders. updates.techforpalestine.org/fact-checkin...

Fact checking MUBI regarding Sequoia investment

Context: MUBI is a sort of “Netflix for Indie films”, which recently announced they had taken a $100M investment from Sequoia Capital, a famous Silicon Valley venture capital firm. MUBI’s community wa...

updates.techforpalestine.org

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 17d

Re-jigged my 2025 visiting lecture for fine art first years on film and performance to bring the AI caveats that were at the end, to the beginning - under the theme of remix, collage, textuality (and ethics / legality)... A little precursor to Dada and collage doesn't go amiss. (📷 Hannah Höch, 1930)

Close crop from Hannah Höch, Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum (Indische Tänzerin: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum)
1930. Source https://www.moma.org/collection/works/37360?artist_id=2675&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 22d

"Blowing badly on our lowest notes is an act of therapeutic exorcism, where words fail, in solidarity with all those affected by Trump and his policies. Anyone with a trumpet is invited to join the band, musicians and non-musicians - the worse the better." via @conwayandyoung on IG.

Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 22d

Bristolian artists 🎺 Trumpets Against Trump 🎺 the band gathers to perform a discordant drone piece whenever Donald Trump visits the UK during his presidency.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24d

Trumpets against Trump a favourite highlight

#TrumpDemo

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 23d

Please don't stop reading books written by humans

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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social · 23d

I LOVE how much this conversation captures big and small: localism, people power, transnational exchange, #listening, our pathological economics - and a hefty note of urgency - climate, inequality, and fascism. Democracy needs these people (and all of us). Hard to keep up @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🔥

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 24d

"That's when we become unstoppable."

🤝 @zackpolanski.bsky.social meets co-leader of New Zealand Greens Chlöe Swarbrick 💚

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