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Susan Potter

@specksofthings

early cinema | history of sexuality | queer theory | documentary theory & practice | occasional tweeter 🚵‍♂️🐕

 Gadigal Land, Sydney
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Joined October 2011
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Keva S York@kevasyork18 Jul 2023
With Goddess season in full bloom at @ACMI, I wrote about The Love Witch, by the incomparable @missannabiller, and the occult origins of glamour 💅✨ acmi.net.au/stories-and-idea…
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"'I decided a painter named "Cézanne" would be my mascot; I would assume Cézanne was unquestionably a woman.'" Quoted in Patrícia Mourão de Andrade, "Schneemann’s Doubt" from Framework 61.2, available from @wsupress.⁠ ⁠ Carolee Schneemann: Newspaper Event (1963)⁠
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Please sign this letter to Media Watch. actionnetwork.org/forms/open…
Open Letter: Media Watch, Set the Record Straight

Open Letter: Media Watch, Set the Record Straight

In an environment of increasing hostility towards the LGBTQIA+ communities it is vital that the media are engaging in accurate and fair reporting, and are not spreading disinformation about our...

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"Excess and Ethics: The Queering of Fascism from Luchino Visconti to Ivo van Hove" by @JuliaSirmons, in Framework 61.1, available from @wsupress or on FrameworkNow.com.⁠ ⁠ Still from The Damned (Luchino Visconti, 1969) ⁠ #visconti #excess #thedamned
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We're excited to announce that the groundbreaking television series Tangata Whenua (1974) will be available to watch online in time for Matariki. Newly digitised and preserved by Ngā Taonga, all episodes can be viewed on TVNZ+ from midday today. 📷 Eva Rickard & Herepo Rongo.
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Thoroughly enjoyed presenting JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM in Paris, France May 30, 2023 re: Baker as film pioneer, a revelatory, risky figure of early 20th century cinema ENDURING BLACKNESS: A Decade of Black Portraiture[s]: Paris 2013 –2023 youtu.be/pWpUDrzUMNQ
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Keva S York@kevasyork25 Jun 2023
This program’s got the whole town talkin’!
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Special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture on marginalised spectatorship (1910s to 1930s) is finally out! Including articles by Caroline Damiens, Karina Pryt, @aladyofchance, @PDabashi, @ProfessorMorton, and my own @HoMER_Network tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2…
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Max Bourke@maxbourke14 Jun 2023
The series I spent nearly two years sweating over as series producer – with legend director @LarissaBehrendt – hits screens tomorrow! The First Inventors tells the 65,000+ year story of science, ingenuity and invention here in Australia. Starts Thurs 830pm AET on NITV and Ten
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BREAKING: The Queensland parliament has just passed new laws that remove cruel barriers to updating birth certificates! This a momentous day for trans and gender diverse people in the Sunshine State and follows many years of advocacy. We share your joy and celebrate your win 🏳️‍⚧️ – at Brisbane, Queensland
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Submit to Framework: digitalcommons.wayne.edu/fra… Framework is also seeking reviewers for films, film festivals, books, and conferences. Send your CV and two examples of your relevant work in the field to editors@frameworknow.com to be considered ✏️
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Are you a #cultural or #digital #heritage expert? In partnership with @CHCInetwork we are offering funding for international and local scholars to attend @Icomos_GA2023 in #Sydney this year! Applications due 21 June 👉tinyurl.com/y2pdd683
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RIP Fassbinder Superstar Margit Carstensen, dead at 83. She was a German theatre and film actress best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, most famously in the lesbian melodrama "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" (1972)
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DYING for you all to see this absolute beauty!
Prototype (@Prototype_artTV) profile picturePrototype@Prototype_artTV31 May 2023
See our new commission at the movies with us –– for the full cinematic experience (!) – before we screen it on our platform. Launch screenings in June and July for UK auteur Peter Strickland's BLANK NARCISSUS in Sydney, Melb and Bris! WOAHHH! youaretheprototype.art/event…
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Mark Scott@mscott24 May 2023
Delighted to award Australian media icon, Margaret Pomeranz, a Doctor of Letters at @Sydney_Uni for her passionate support of the Australian film and arts industry – congratulations Margaret! sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…
Margaret Pomeranz awarded Doctor of Letters

Margaret Pomeranz awarded Doctor of Letters

Margaret Pomeranz received a Doctor of Letters from the University of Sydney in a ceremony presided by Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Mark Scott AO.

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OMFG the Queen is Dead!!! indiewire.com/features/gener…
Kenneth Anger, Avant-Garde Filmmaker and Hollywood Fabulist, Dead at Age 96

Kenneth Anger, Avant-Garde Filmmaker and Hollywood Fabulist, Dead at Age 96

The "Fireworks" and "Scorpio Rising" director and "Hollywood Babylon" author Kenneth Anger is dead at age 96.

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This #IDAHOBIT I’m so proud to be a queer, a lez, a deviant degenerate invert! As a reminder that whatever you call us, we’ve always been here (& legends), today’s a great day to catch up on our HISTORY & CULTURE & I dunno… maybe watch this little doco? iview.abc.net.au/show/queers…
Queerstralia

Queerstralia

Join award-winning comedian and professional lesbian Zoe Coombs Marr, as we wipe away the straightwashing and reveal the untold and frankly fascinating Queer history of Australia.

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Save the date announcement. On 31 October we will launch #TheRichardDyerReader in Amsterdam (there will also be a launch in London). More details will follow later.
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Claudio Panella & Silvia Nugara, "(Re)Discovering the Italian Reception of NAC through the Archives of the Unione Culturale" in Framework 63.1,2 from @wsupress or on FrameworkNow.com.⁠ ⁠ Still from Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)⁠, on the NAC program, Turin, 1967⁠
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The 7 program #WarrenSonbert retro @museumofmodernart repeats May 14-19. Programs 1 & 2 can be seen 5/14. Read @thomasbeard’s insightful @4_columns article at bit.ly/3pAYZUF. #GartenbergMedia is the custodian of the legacy of Warren Sonbert. bit.ly/3KtvgE1
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