Graeme Cole | Unfound Peoples Videotechnic ◡◶▿
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🎓 Micro-essays on the esoterics of filmmaking & mediaphysics. Trudging through wastelands of ignorance towards a Cinema of Doubt via Béla Tarr, Maddin & Deren. | https://www.unfound.video
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◡◶▿ Rotting the Image: 37 micro-essays on cinematography
🗂️ A hyperlinked guide to creating the odour of your movie's look.
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🎥 In autumn 2023, over 12 weeks, I posted 37 micro-essays on the life, death, architecture, respiratory system, materiality & otherworldliness of an appropriately-pungent cinematographic image.
Here is an annotated index. Pick the micro-essay that calls to you …and off you go.
Reposts appreciated!
Here is an annotated index. Pick the micro-essay that calls to you …and off you go.
Reposts appreciated!
"A movie is no longer boxed plastic to have but pure potential to maintain.
A movie is no longer something that you could make a little duvet for and keep in a cardboard box in your sock drawer."
A movie is no longer something that you could make a little duvet for and keep in a cardboard box in your sock drawer."
◡◶▿ ROTT05 | Thingness
📦 Is your movie a 'thing,' and if so, which recycling bin should it go in? Plus: Dean Hurley David Lynchizes Tod Browning | Rotting the Image Week 05
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February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
"A movie is no longer boxed plastic to have but pure potential to maintain.
A movie is no longer something that you could make a little duvet for and keep in a cardboard box in your sock drawer."
A movie is no longer something that you could make a little duvet for and keep in a cardboard box in your sock drawer."
Healthy, delicious dairy-themed Naomi Uman double bill at London's Finch Community Cinema this Friday.
Attendance is mandatory for UPV students although I'll be battling through the Isiah Medina night at the ICA fml
Attendance is mandatory for UPV students although I'll be battling through the Isiah Medina night at the ICA fml
Crossing Borders with Naomi Uman - Programme 1
Join us for a two-part program presenting the work of experimental filmmaker Naomi Uman.
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February 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Healthy, delicious dairy-themed Naomi Uman double bill at London's Finch Community Cinema this Friday.
Attendance is mandatory for UPV students although I'll be battling through the Isiah Medina night at the ICA fml
Attendance is mandatory for UPV students although I'll be battling through the Isiah Medina night at the ICA fml
February 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
☯️ The practical potential of your character’s pulses and the beating world around them.
🔥 The cinematic promise of early timepieces.
🔫 The genre rules of the ‘clock movie.’
🚉 Ambient cinema in everyday spaces.
🔥 The cinematic promise of early timepieces.
🔫 The genre rules of the ‘clock movie.’
🚉 Ambient cinema in everyday spaces.
◡◶▿ TIME02 | Movies for airports
🛫 Re-editing Christian Marclay's The Clock to improve the narrative pacing. Slip-Slop hits app store. The secret tunnel linking One Battle with Sweet East. New Systems of Time Week 2
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February 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
☯️ The practical potential of your character’s pulses and the beating world around them.
🔥 The cinematic promise of early timepieces.
🔫 The genre rules of the ‘clock movie.’
🚉 Ambient cinema in everyday spaces.
🔥 The cinematic promise of early timepieces.
🔫 The genre rules of the ‘clock movie.’
🚉 Ambient cinema in everyday spaces.
Just logged into Substack after two months and it seems I am now the director of a small international TV station.
February 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Just logged into Substack after two months and it seems I am now the director of a small international TV station.
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Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day?
#lgbtqhistory
#lgbtqhistory
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
Expect the phrase "AI art" to be outlawed imminently!
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Expect the phrase "AI art" to be outlawed imminently!
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Rarely have I seen the issue of post-natal depression so meaningfully explored in a quick montage sequence as it is in One Battle After Another.
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Rarely have I seen the issue of post-natal depression so meaningfully explored in a quick montage sequence as it is in One Battle After Another.
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Call for films - protocole hystérique. Deadline January 19th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
Call for films - protocole hystérique
@protocole.hysterique collective has launched an open call for films (experimental, DIY, crashed, dirty & rowdy), open until January 19, in preparation for the first edition of its festival which will...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Call for films - protocole hystérique. Deadline January 19th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
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Who hasn't tried this in their Authoritative Voice
January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Who hasn't tried this in their Authoritative Voice
"The diarist-filmmaker is already one step ahead of herself, anticipating where in the present scene of her life she should turn the camera next.
But she may also think in terms of the notches and blackouts in her stream of footage, since these are makers of meaning in film."
But she may also think in terms of the notches and blackouts in her stream of footage, since these are makers of meaning in film."
"by cutting and omitting, the diarist-filmmaker makes the audience one with the diarist’s shadow self: a Frankenstein of meat and machine, vanity, sorrow, denial, base instinct, learned grammars, and mediaphysical proprioception."
◡◶▿ HOME04 | Notches
🔪 The blackout as building block of the diary film. Plus: Bergman at Harvard. Call for filmmakers. Funding for Amazons. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture Week 4
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January 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"The diarist-filmmaker is already one step ahead of herself, anticipating where in the present scene of her life she should turn the camera next.
But she may also think in terms of the notches and blackouts in her stream of footage, since these are makers of meaning in film."
But she may also think in terms of the notches and blackouts in her stream of footage, since these are makers of meaning in film."
Who hasn't tried this in their Authoritative Voice
January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Who hasn't tried this in their Authoritative Voice
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London writers please boost! We always love to hear from confident writers who know how to provide workshop feedback and are looking for help in getting their projects over the line
Happy new year from all of us to all of you! We look forward to hearing about your projects in the new year! Www.blackheathwriters.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
London writers please boost! We always love to hear from confident writers who know how to provide workshop feedback and are looking for help in getting their projects over the line
"by cutting and omitting, the diarist-filmmaker makes the audience one with the diarist’s shadow self: a Frankenstein of meat and machine, vanity, sorrow, denial, base instinct, learned grammars, and mediaphysical proprioception."
◡◶▿ HOME04 | Notches
🔪 The blackout as building block of the diary film. Plus: Bergman at Harvard. Call for filmmakers. Funding for Amazons. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture Week 4
www.unfound.video
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
"by cutting and omitting, the diarist-filmmaker makes the audience one with the diarist’s shadow self: a Frankenstein of meat and machine, vanity, sorrow, denial, base instinct, learned grammars, and mediaphysical proprioception."
Let the desire for a sense of "belonging and affirmation" be the leading motivation for crime in 2026.
Fake admiral admits dressing as navy official at Remembrance Sunday event in Llandudno
Jonathan Carley, 65, attended a wreath-laying service in Llandudno on 9 November.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Let the desire for a sense of "belonging and affirmation" be the leading motivation for crime in 2026.
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"Tom Burke expertly exceeds his allotted space as a British TV actor - i.e., he doesn’t seem like one - without exceeding his allotted space as a British character - i.e., his horizons are foreshortened."
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh): "The real puzzle is to work out who Fassbender’s performance is an impersonation of. There are five suspects and one of them is his wife."
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
"Tom Burke expertly exceeds his allotted space as a British TV actor - i.e., he doesn’t seem like one - without exceeding his allotted space as a British character - i.e., his horizons are foreshortened."
"Tom Burke expertly exceeds his allotted space as a British TV actor - i.e., he doesn’t seem like one - without exceeding his allotted space as a British character - i.e., his horizons are foreshortened."
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh): "The real puzzle is to work out who Fassbender’s performance is an impersonation of. There are five suspects and one of them is his wife."
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
"Tom Burke expertly exceeds his allotted space as a British TV actor - i.e., he doesn’t seem like one - without exceeding his allotted space as a British character - i.e., his horizons are foreshortened."
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh): "The real puzzle is to work out who Fassbender’s performance is an impersonation of. There are five suspects and one of them is his wife."
January 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh): "The real puzzle is to work out who Fassbender’s performance is an impersonation of. There are five suspects and one of them is his wife."
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"Nobody in narrative cinema understands the power and potential of the image volume - the pretend space beyond the surface of a movie’s image - like Bi Gan."
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
"Nobody in narrative cinema understands the power and potential of the image volume - the pretend space beyond the surface of a movie’s image - like Bi Gan."
"Nobody in narrative cinema understands the power and potential of the image volume - the pretend space beyond the surface of a movie’s image - like Bi Gan."
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
"Nobody in narrative cinema understands the power and potential of the image volume - the pretend space beyond the surface of a movie’s image - like Bi Gan."
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"Celine Song is a very thorough screenwriter: the dialogue is all written in triplicate so that nothing gets missed."
Materialists (Celine Song): "Kerry from Succession seeks an equally rich but slightly taller replacement for Logan Roy. She hires the world’s most cynical and over-screenwriting-workshopped matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) whose Main Character Genes have a better chance of surviving natural selection..."
January 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
"Celine Song is a very thorough screenwriter: the dialogue is all written in triplicate so that nothing gets missed."
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"The set designer will maintain tighter conceptual control over her scenery if she defines wallpaper in its most conventional sense. Rolls of paper, neatly hung. A repeatable motif as its base unit; repeatable to infinity; only the set designer can make it stop."
◡◶▿ MAPS06 | Infinite wallpaper
🧻 Remapping filmic spaces - Enclosing mental spaces - Unlocking the cosmos. Unhinging the intern. | Maps, Flaps, & Infinite Wallpaper Week 6
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January 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"The set designer will maintain tighter conceptual control over her scenery if she defines wallpaper in its most conventional sense. Rolls of paper, neatly hung. A repeatable motif as its base unit; repeatable to infinity; only the set designer can make it stop."
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
Synopsis: "In a future where filmmakers have forgotten how to dream, Bi Gan succumbs to “young filmmaker with high expectations on his shoulder” syndrome and is condemned to wander an over-elaborate 20th-century film set forever with his long-suffering camera operator."
"Akerman’s anachronisms could have been a good solution for Linklater: drop Godard’s atomic age production into 2025 Paris, or better still, Austin, TX. I imagine somebody’s already remade it in Grand Theft Auto."
◡◶▿ TIME05 | Sidechaining inner time-worlds
⚡ Applying Daft Punk's studio techniques to the cinema of Doubt. Plus: Scandal! Richard Linklater shoots Belmondo on electronic cobblestones. | New Systems of Time Week 5
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January 3, 2026 at 4:11 AM
"Akerman’s anachronisms could have been a good solution for Linklater: drop Godard’s atomic age production into 2025 Paris, or better still, Austin, TX. I imagine somebody’s already remade it in Grand Theft Auto."
"The set designer will maintain tighter conceptual control over her scenery if she defines wallpaper in its most conventional sense. Rolls of paper, neatly hung. A repeatable motif as its base unit; repeatable to infinity; only the set designer can make it stop."
◡◶▿ MAPS06 | Infinite wallpaper
🧻 Remapping filmic spaces - Enclosing mental spaces - Unlocking the cosmos. Unhinging the intern. | Maps, Flaps, & Infinite Wallpaper Week 6
www.unfound.video
January 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"The set designer will maintain tighter conceptual control over her scenery if she defines wallpaper in its most conventional sense. Rolls of paper, neatly hung. A repeatable motif as its base unit; repeatable to infinity; only the set designer can make it stop."