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James Leo Cahill

@jamesleocahill.bsky.social

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Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks Pascal. I hadn't only because I'm trying to show it on Thursday, but never hurts to track a copy down so I'll check. I've seen the film at the BiFi and as part of the two other films. All of this just for a camera by a stray dog!

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 21h

My kingdom* for the Lumière's "Faux cul-de-jatte" (1897). I know it appears in Le Cinéma, une histoire des plans as well as in Lumière, l'aventure continue, but neither seem available on short notice in Canada. The library catalogue entry claimed it was on the DVD we own, but it t'wasn't. *MAV

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 8d

By the time I came back home they were gone.

A line of seven industrial vacuum or carpet cleaners basking in the morning sun by the curb of Dundas Street West. Not entirely sure which they are.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 10d

That’s an eastern carpenter bee. 🐝

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 10d

Checking in on the neighbours…

A bumble bee in flight against some flowers.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 10d

Checking in on the neighbours…

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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · 11d

But the paperbacks are beautiful and cheap -- no, not free -- but only $18.99

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 11d

Clams Casino and the Baby Prof having a good time: 2 dachshund-jack Russell terrier mixes wrestling on a sofa.

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 12d

When the sketch is not sketching, and you need to summon the old gods...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 13d

Explaining to a graduate seminar the smell of the NJ Turnpike circa 1984…

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 15d

Teaching Les Parapluies de Cherbourg this week. Not sure the students know what they're in for. "Mais, c'est etrange, le soleil et la mort voyagent ensemble..."

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 15d

Love to see Jacques Demy street-teaming for Varda's Cléo...

Frame capture from Les parapluies de Cherbourg which features a prominent if torn up poster for Cléo de 5 à 7 in the background.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 15d

This is all so embarrassing and stupid.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 15d

Love to see Jacques Demy street-teaming for Varda's Cléo...

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 16d

Who wore it better?
Trick question, they both did.

Sailor from Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin covered in a dot pattern from the grill of the ship.

Dita Parlo covered in surrealist spots in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 17d

Found a drawing of werewolves I did early in the pandemic lockdown.

Drawing of one werewolf taking a polaroid from the camera of another. The pose alludes to one of Mapplethorpe's favourites.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 18d

Anyone agreeing to this is no longer a journalist.

NPR @npr.org · 18d

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 18d

I'll be speaking about a Spanish painter, so I think it all cancels out.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19d

This should be fun! german.utoronto.ca/18th-toronto...

18th Toronto German Studies Symposium - Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

The 18th Toronto German Studies Symposium will take place October 2–4, 2025. This year’s theme is “Considering Cross-Species Assemblages: Conflict, Collaboration, Kinship”. The symposium will feature ...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19d

I think somebody ascended and if you’re reading this we’re the left behind…

An open can of ravioli sitting on a TTC subway seat, with some morsels of ravioli and sunglasses on the ground beneath it.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19d

A moment of respite in fascist times. @tedleo.bsky.social rocked the west side of Toronto. Love a show I can stop by on the way home from work and then walk home.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19d

Huge congrats to Dr. @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social on becoming a doctor of cinema!
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/news/congrat...

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Wiebe

www.cinema.utoronto.ca

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 21d

Find somebody who loves you as much as Ponge loved hermit crabs.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 23d

Also... "Fine Meats"

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 23d

The circus came and went. Night of the Hunter.

Notice the poster of a clown's creepy grimmace and advertisements for the circus on the walls of an abandoned store-front in Night of the Hunter.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 23d

Shane. I am retroactively giving you A+'s in all the classes you took with me for this.

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