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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · 4d

Your vote could make BREAKING PLATES an AACTA Short Film Finalist!

Short Film: Round 1 - closes 11:59pm AEDT TODAY 06 Oct 2025!
AACTA members, please view + vote : tv.aacta.org/film/breakin...

"The most innovative and thought-provoking films in cinema today," Magdalena Ball, Compulsive Reader.

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · 23d

*** NEW YORK SCREENING THIS SUNDAY!! ***
@karenpearlman.bsky.social + @richardjamesallen.bsky.social in NYC for the screening of @physicaltv.bsky.social films this Sun Sept 21, 5.30pm, @columbiasoa.bsky.social, Dodge Hall 511, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA. Free, but contact for QR entry.

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Sep 1

Loyalty and friendship and art. Michelle Hiscock and Jonathan Nix. Opening Night: Thurs Sept 4, 2025, 6-8pm Australian Galleries, 15 Roylston Street , Paddington. This sensitive exhibition continues through September 27: australiangalleries.com.au/exhibitions/...

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to share that @karenpearlman.bsky.social’s BREAKING PLATES, a collaboration with nastysilents.bsky.social, is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards!

AACTAs member: please vote! Viewing link: tv.aacta.org/film/breakin...

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 22

Excited to share that Karen Pearlman’s BREAKING PLATES, a collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards!

If you are an AACTA member, please vote! Viewing link: tv.aacta.org/film/breakin...

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 21

Richard James Allen says, 'This is one of the most fun interviews I have ever had! Please have a listen! Big thanks to Belinda and @2ser.'

Find out the truth with Richard about his latest release ‘More Lies’, 2SER:FM: 2ser.com/find-out-the...

Find out the truth with Richard about his latest release 'More Lies' - 2SER

Feel like the world’s full of lies? You’re not alone. Richard James Allen lifts the curtain on the secrets behind his latest novel, More Lies. In a world where trust is slippery, who can you really be...

2ser.com

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 14

Big thanks to @karenpearlman.bsky.social & Tug Dumbly for launching @richardjamesallen.bsky.social's MORE LIES!

An experimental hybrid of fiction, poetry & monologue available in paperback, eBook or audiobook ipoz.biz/product/more... Or Spotify tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot...

Photo: Yannis Dramitinos

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 14

Big thanks to @karenpearlman.bsky.social and Tug Dumbly for launching MORE LIES!

This offbeat experimental novel - a hybrid of fiction, poetry & monologue - is available in paperback, eBook or audiobook: ipoz.biz/product/more...

Or on Spotify: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot...

Photo: Yannis Dramitinos

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 12

Which actor who turned up to play a character from MORE LIES at Richard James Allen's book and audiobook launch? The wonderful Liliya May!

MORE LIES is available in paperback, eBook or audiobook ipoz.biz/product/more... Or on Spotify: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot...

Photo by Yannis Dramitinos.

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 9

It's TODAY!! Sat Aug 9! See you at 3pm at Better Read Than Dead for the MORE LIES Launch and then on to Kelly's on King to celebrate! Details: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesLaunch

Too far away? Order paperback, eBook or audiobook: ipoz.biz/product/more...
Or listen on Spotify: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot...

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thrilled to announce the World Premiere of the MORE LIES Audiobook as a Podcast at the Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival (Aug 6-10, 2025): prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/43/...

If you are in Sydney, join us for the book launch on Saturday August 9, 3-4.30pm: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesLaunch

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Jul 14

Join @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for a performative launch of his first novel, MORE LIES, at Better Read Than Dead in Sydney on Sat Aug 9, 3pm.

"A rollercoaster romp," Emma Lee's Blog.

Register here: www.betterreadevents.com/events/more-...
Order your copy now: ipoz.biz/product/more...

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Jun 20

@physicaltv.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato this Sun, June 22, 4.30pm.

Tix: www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Join @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social Elif Kaynakci, Kate Saccone & @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the panel/Q&A!

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Jun 5

Multi-award-winning @karenpearlman.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social celebration of feminist mayhem, BREAKING PLATES, has screenings coming up in Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam, Bologna, Perth & across USA! Spread the word! If not screening near you, ask local festivals, cinematheques, & archives.

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · May 5

Cinema Reborn presents World Premiere 4K restoration of WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN (1996), Australian arthouse film directed by John Hughes, based on John A. Scott’s verse novel, tonight, Mon May 5, 6pm, Randwick Ritz (Syd); next Mon 12, 6pm Lido Cinemas (Melb). Tix: www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/what-...

What I Have Written (1996) - Ritz Cinemas

There are very few Australian films which draw their style and inspiration from European art cinema and the work of such masters as Alain Resnais and Chris Marker. What I Have Written, based on a nove...

www.ritzcinemas.com.au

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Apr 30

@richardjamesallen.bsky.social to introduce Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, THE SACRIFICE, on the Cinema Reborn Festival, tonight, Thurs May 1, 2025, 7pm at Ritz Cinemas in Randwick, Sydney: www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/the-s...

#question could a film like this be made today?

The Sacrifice (1986) - Ritz Cinemas

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

www.ritzcinemas.com.au

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Apr 4

World Premiere in London:
BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY
@karenpearlman.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social @kinolorber.com
4pm Sat April 5 2025
8th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend,
The Cinema Museum
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/8th-ken...
"Amazing, Bravo!" (Alan Berliner)

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Mar 31

@karenpearlman.bsky.social's SHIRLEY CLARKE, THINKING THROUGH MOVEMENT is the first film philosophy book on extraordinary iconic ferocious dancer-turned-film editor-turned-director Shirley Clarke. Order @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shirley... 30% discount code: NEW30

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Mar 31

@karenpearlman.bsky.social's SHIRLEY CLARKE, THINKING THROUGH MOVEMENT is the first film philosophy book on extraordinary iconic ferocious dancer-turned-film editor-turned-director Shirley Clarke. Order @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shirley... 30% discount code: NEW30

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Mar 13

An insightful review of karenpearlman.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES, a physicaltv.bsky.social collaboration with nastysilents.bsky.social, by the Indigenous dance artist Vicki Van Hout, kindly published by Form Dance Projects: www.form.org.au/breaking-pla... Photo: @blandinevives.bsky.social

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Mar 11

So excited for this screening!!

Get along, it's going to be a suitably bumpy ride!

physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Mar 11

Another stunning and insightful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES, a @physicaltv.bsky.social collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, this time by the wonderful Indigenous dance artist Vicki Van Hout, kindly published by Form Dance Projects: www.form.org.au/breaking-pla...

Breaking Plates and Bunyi Bunyi Bumi - FORM Dance Projects

FORM Dance Projects is a dynamic hub for Australian contemporary dance, based in Parramatta, Western Sydney.

www.form.org.au

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Feb 21

Thrilled to announce that BREAKING PLATES, a @physicaltv.bsky.social production in collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, directed by @karenpearlman.bsky.social and produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, has won The Best Australian Short Award at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival.

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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · Feb 19

FREE screening of AN EDITOR'S ANTHOLOGY tonight in Perth with @karenpearlman.bsky.social.

If you can't make it, please support our ongoing investigations into the history & potential of cinema by ordering your own copy from Ronin Films or @kanopyofficial.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/EditorsAntho...