5-City Matinee Double-Bill coming up this Sunday, featuring two of our productions: @docnycfest.bsky.social winning @shiftingbaselines.bsky.social, preceded by the Oscar nominated short PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS! 🫏🚀

WALTER F’ING MURCH!!!

Some screenings coming up this weekend, as a Shifting Baselines double-bill!

The #OscarShorts are now in theaters! We just finished a 20-minute interview with Alison McAlpine, the director of PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS, one of the five Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films. Full interview coming this weekend. #Oscars  #PerfectlyAStrangeness @secondsightinc.bsky.social

The Oscar shorts are a mixed bag, but I LOVED Perfectly a Strangeness (doc), The Three Sisters (Animated), The Singers and Jane Austen's Period Drama (live-action). Review here... original-cin.ca/posts/2026/2...

Exciting news! 🫏🫏🫏

Three donkeys, two brown and one white, walk across a stony desert, with layers of hills palely visible behind them.

Yesterday I interviewed Alison McAlpine about her Oscar-nominated short documentary 'Perfectly a Strangeness', in which three donkeys discover an observatory. We had an interesting chat about storytelling techniques. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026...

Another great option if you can’t make it to one of these shorts screenings is to check out PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS as part of a double bill with @shiftingbaselines.bsky.social on Sunday! Vancouver/Winnipeg/Whitby/Ottawa/Kingston

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The Oscar Nominated Short Docs: Donkeys Bring Light from Darkness - POV Magazine Review of the Oscar nominated short documentaries perfectly a strangeness, The Devil Is Busy, Armed with Only a Camera, Children No More, and All the Empty Rooms.

In theatres this weekend, the Oscar short docs offer some hard-hitting topics from abortion rights, Gaza's lost children, the price of journalism, and gun violence, while curious donkeys add some refreshing levity. povmagazine.com/the-oscar-no...

Both share a lot of cross over of creative teams, such as lead colourist Marc Bucrot and all the team at CineGround! And big thanks to @landmarkcinemas.bsky.social for putting this on! Cc: @secondsightinc.bsky.social

Both films are anchored by an examination of humanity’s place in the heavens. Both could not have been made without the help of the world’s top astronomers and observatories, from the @eso.org to the @mcdonaldobs.bsky.social, from @planet4589.bsky.social to @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

5-City Matinee Double-Bill coming up this Sunday, featuring two of our productions: @docnycfest.bsky.social winning @shiftingbaselines.bsky.social, preceded by the Oscar nominated short PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS! 🫏🚀

Could aliens in another galaxy see dinosaurs on Earth? How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think bigger

You know what? Sure, I'll say yes. It also explains why aliens don't come here. Either they'd be afraid of the giant lizard monsters, or they're disappointed the dinos are gone.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...

Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before' "This study represents an important milestone in observing the influence of space sector activities on the atmosphere."

Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before' www.space.com/space-explor...

I guess the Falcon 9's must really actually be grounded, because Jonathan McDowell's Starlink count hasn't gone up in the last 4 days since my last talk! (It's actually gone down slightly due to reentries).

There are now "only" 9,631 Starlinks in orbit. (Sigh.)

A leading astrophysicist has some questions for Elon - PitchBook A Q&A with Jonathan McDowell, a leading expert on Earth orbit, about his doubts that SpaceX can pull off its vision of orbital data centers powering the world.

I talked to Pitchbook about the proposed million sat constellation pitchbook.com/news/article...

FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan for 1M Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts Usually, the commission takes weeks or months to respond to a filing, but it kicked off a public comment period for SpaceX's orbital data center plan in just a few days.

You can already comment on SpaceX's application for one million satellites

www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-fas...

SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data center Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence

ICFS Application Summary - ICFS Portal

SpaceX has put in a kinda-sorta-application to the FCC for an orbital data center constellation with a MILLION satellites. However, the description is rather vague without the usual specifics of the orbital parameters of each shell. fccprod.servicenowservices.com/icfs?id=ibfs...

tee-hee - reviews from critics on the new movie #Melania

Cineplex should be ashamed for letting that shit onto their screens…..

Sending love to all of the O’ Hara’s. My heart goes out to you. Another hard day on the planet just got harder.

apart from this it was a fantastic cinematic experience

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

YouTube video by Warren Snider Rheostatics - Queer - The Horseshoe (12-10-16) w/ Chris Brown

1992: a song about gay culture and hockey and family. Here’s a live version of Rheostatics “Queer,” sung from the perspective of the younger brother whose family, and small town, cast the gay son out. m.youtube.com/watch?v=l8yv...

Atom Egoyan and Alison McAlpine Discuss the Oscar-Contending Perfectly a Strangeness Shortlisted as one of fifteen films vying for the Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short film from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, di...

In an exclusive conversation, Atom Egoyan joins director Alison McAlpine to discuss her Cannes premiere and Oscar contender perfectly a strangeness ahead of a NYC screening this weekend.

Le film québécois PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS de Alison McAlpine est finaliste pour l’Oscar® du Meilleur court métrage documentaire.

perfectly a strangeness - a short film by Alison McAlpine In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.

Serious Oscars post: It's really nice to see a short film as curious and contemplative as Alison McAlpine's PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS register with the Academy, and I'm glad this means more people will get to see it on a big screen.

Thanks Norm! We will announce some more Canadian big screen dates soon!!