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kambole campbell
@kambole.bsky.social
critic @ Vulture, Cartoon Brew, Animation Magazine, Empire, Little White Lies, i-D, IndieWire, others.

1/3 of the animation newsletter re:frame: http://reframenewsletter.online/

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I interviewed Ryan Coogler about SINNERS for this beautiful issue!!
Ryan Coogler – the man himself – is in conversation with @kambole.bsky.social on going back to first principles for Sinners after the epic production of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, wanting to deliver a story rooted in personal passions, but to also reach for the IMAX cameras.
having real “you can’t disappoint a picture!!” feelings over realising that PTA may well have read my writeup of OBAA for the London Critics Circle awards pamphlets because he was actually there
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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delete computer. return to hand drawn animation brothers.
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
good, but I hope people are making plans for software that doesn't keep them hostage to the whims of an incredibly callous model. every company is aspiring to be a landlord now and it's awful
Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future.

www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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*Ip Man punches me 100 times* heh, I’ve got him on the ropes now. *Ip Man punches me 100 more times* fuck
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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in which i reveal myself as a massive hypocrite and talk about how this show is actually doing some pretty cool things visually
February 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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I mostly watched shorts at Sundance this year, but of the few features I caught, I ended up loving Adam & Zack Khalil's Aanikoobijigan most. A poetic and political work about the institutions that hold native bodies hostage and those working toward repatriation and reburial.
Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan Demands a Necessary Reclamation
Even before his campaign for the removal of indigenous people from their land in the 1800s, Thomas Jefferson was pillaging burial grounds under the guise of scientific understanding. His actions preda...
thefilmstage.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
in which i reveal myself as a massive hypocrite and talk about how this show is actually doing some pretty cool things visually
February 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Please share the now complete link for tickets to my book launch and livestream on 3 March. I really appreciate your support, sorry to chop off a vital bit of the link! tinyurl.com/2u9pcjfr
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish:

www.404media.co/icezine/
Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here
Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
www.404media.co
February 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
this is insane btw
February 3, 2026 at 12:05 AM
some kinda switch flipped in INDUSTRY round episode 7 of season 2 and they locked the fuck in, wow
February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
watching INDUSTRY, mid season 2

cackling at Gus dying his hair blue then helping a Tory with office admin
February 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Today, @kambole.bsky.social is lookin' back.

re:frame #51, out now:
Looking back before Look Back
Kiyotaka Oshiyama's solo animated short film SHISHIGARI is a gorgeous proof-of-concept short film worth hunting down.
buttondown.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Statement from Standing Rock:
January 25, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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People got so uncomfortable about that Ta-Nehisi Coates quote about how if you didn't draw the line at Gaza, you can't draw the line at democracy
I would argue there is a throughline here with every Palestinian in Gaza being called a terrorist
Stephen Miller calls the deceased “a domestic terrorist.”
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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I would argue there is a throughline here with every Palestinian in Gaza being called a terrorist
Stephen Miller calls the deceased “a domestic terrorist.”
January 24, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.

Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.

And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
zeteo.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 8:11 PM
over on twitter some dipshit goes “Sinners is only doing well because of white liberals,” this fucking guy says there’s too many “ultranationalist” Brazilians in the Academy (??), what is so far-fetched to these morons about two critically acclaimed movies getting nominations lmao
It’s started: Oliver Laxe said on Spanish television that THE SECRET AGENT is doing well because there are too many Brazilians in the Academy — “ultranationalists” who would vote for a shoe if it were Brazilian and now this is what the comment section on the SIRÂT Instagram looks like x 5,000.
January 23, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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It’s started: Oliver Laxe said on Spanish television that THE SECRET AGENT is doing well because there are too many Brazilians in the Academy — “ultranationalists” who would vote for a shoe if it were Brazilian and now this is what the comment section on the SIRÂT Instagram looks like x 5,000.
January 23, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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a man in a shirt and tie is running in a field
ALT: a man in a shirt and tie is running in a field
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I could go on and on about what was missed from the animation categories but honestly No Other Choice might be the most egregious snub for me
January 22, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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F1 lmao
January 22, 2026 at 2:06 PM