@alexcfields

Words on avant garde film etc @toneglow, @InRO @ultradogme https://xitter.cf/t.co/pza3vBdn0h etc. Union steward, Appalachian, historical materialist. they/them

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I wrote about the revelatory filmography of Peter Bundy, who ought to be known as one of the great American experimental filmmakers of the late 70s/early 80s Four of his films streaming on Ultra Dogme (online for the first time ever) and others this wknd at Tone Glow Film Fest
ULTRA DOGME@ultradogmeMay 22
Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes: ultradogme.com/2026/05/22/pe…

As If the Trees By Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us: The Films of Peter Bundy - Ultra Dogme

Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes.

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RIP my goat John Anderson youtu.be/_FARZGM8Wk0?si=xMnn…

John Anderson – Years [Official Video]

"Years" by John Anderson, from his album Years, out now on Easy Eye...

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Fear of looking stupid for liking (or disliking) something is a fatal flaw for a critic, but also one that’s encouraged by a media culture where every writer has to be their own advocate on social media
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The best writer friendships and group chats I’m in have a healthy dynamic where one person can think something is terrible and another love it and both be curious and respectful about the disagreement. Twitter is…not like that
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Apart from its other virtues, a regular encounter with the avant garde can be a good therapy for bad ways of thinking about more conventional forms
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people who want film viewing to be an epistemological exercise should just watch David Gatten films
Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfieldsOct 21
I find most discussions of the truth status and parameters/boundaries of documentary filmmaking tedious in the same way I find most analytic philosophy tedious. Who cares! What does it *mean*?
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I find most discussions of the truth status and parameters/boundaries of documentary filmmaking tedious in the same way I find most analytic philosophy tedious. Who cares! What does it *mean*?
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To the extent these categories hold up usefully it’s as functional ones of how works ask to be engaged with. But even then the question doesn’t resolve itself into two categories called “narrative fiction” and “documentary film”
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All documentaries are fiction films and aesthetic objects and all fiction films and aesthetic objects are documentaries. So many analyses obfuscate more than they reveal
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you call bullshit when you see bullshit imo, it’s not about maintaining your purity it’s about maintaining a critical standpoint
helmet girl is @ home@sbodrojanOct 21
the thing that fucking sucks about generative AI is that it is basically infeasible to *not* unknowingly engage with it if you love art. You will love a movie with AI involved in its creation; you already do! And I don't know what to do about that!
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we can’t resolve our historical contradictions individually we can only reveal and respond to them
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Perfect album
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Pitchfork Sunday 10.0 when
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Vermette@exovedate_ltdOct 19
Toronto only. Starting a club. First drop-in starts this Thursday. Open to all.
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Dimensional Excursions (Peter Rose) Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao) Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao) Were All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun) Dry Leaf (Alexander Koberidze) HMs: Caught by the Tides, Memoria, Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney, Laberint Sequences
Hit Factory@HitFactoryPodOct 6
Current Top 5 2020s: Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World (Jude) Janet Planet (Baker) Pacifiction (Serra) Eureka (Alonzo) Happyend (Sora) HM: Blue Moon, Eephus, Red Rooms, The Killer, Return to Seoul, Failed State, Miroirs No. 3
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C.J. Prince@cj_prinOct 3
Rhayne Vermette's film Levers is available to watch for free online this month on Equinox Film. It's apocalyptic, enigmatic, and feels relevant to our current times yet somehow exists outside of time. Well worth seeing. equinox.film/film/levers/

LEVERS | EQUINOX.FILM | Film Center | Cinema Exhibition

LEVERS is a film featured on EQUINOX.FILM, a Film Center & Cinema Exhibition space that features every month the experimental works from various filmmakers.

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It’s that time of year (the best time of year) notreconciled.substack.com/p…
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Letterboxd version: boxd.it/P1Oas

Film list: 100 Avant Garde Horror Films

This is a copy of a list published on Not Reconciled, where you can find links to watch the large majority of them. I’ve written about 20 of these films in a feature on avant garde horror for Tone...

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Every year in the summer I get tired of movies and every year in September I remember that I like them, just in time for October. Send me your seasonal genre deep cuts or festival standouts that I missed
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tayler (😬)@billdifferenSep 24
it's what y'all deserve
leah@leahetc_Sep 23
why is music journalism just instagram carousels now :(
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