@theflyingeditor.bsky.social
Film editor ✂️ 🎞️ PhD research: Buster Keaton’s film editing & creative process 📽️🍿Presenter and/or programmer of film screenings📍Bristol, UK HQ: https://bit.ly/m/theflyingeditor
Editing by eye in THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSELPROM
25.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 38 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1
Very excited to say that we will be joined by Sir Christopher Frayling plus two special recorded intros by film director Alex Cox during our Sergio Leone Weekend in April in #Bristol. Limited passes still available here: hdfst.uk/e145608
22.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1You can now stream MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA on the Eye Player, with a score by Leo Geyer and Richard Bossons derived from the original music for the film organised by Vertov. player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/man...
19.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
My release of the 1917 adaptation of KIDNAPPED will be screened at Hippfest on March 19, its first big screen showing in over a century with music by the wonderful @silentsweeney.bsky.social
See New Jersey double for Scotland in Scotland
www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/
Thanks @popcornchat.bsky.social & @slapstickfest.bsky.social!
This screening of Keaton's lesser-known French sound film LE ROI DES CHAMPS ELYSÉES was a delight, many laughs from a packed cinema at @wshed.bsky.social.
Such a pleasure to share it 🤣🍿❤️
Buster Keaton & Sybil Seely
#oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm
If you can't be in HippFest this March, HippFest will come to your home! Highly recommend this digital pass for a taste of Britain's best silent film festival online.
www.falkirkleisureandculture.org/memberships/
More wonderful Bristolian indie documentary cinema...
THE BIG PICTURE (2025) is now streaming online - a cinematic love letter to the film community that revived the Bristol Megascreen, including @20thcflicks.bsky.social @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social and many more 💌📽️🎞️
kinema.com/films/the-bi...
I'm excited to watch RAVE ON FOR THE AVON (2024) when it screens online this Thursday (for one day only!) - been waiting for a while to see this acclaimed Bristolian indie documentary on the community campaign for a clean river ❤️
www.eightysita.com/event-detail...
Lovely piece on the life and work of much-missed silent film historian John Bengtson (via @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social).
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Very pleased to be doing this upcoming online research seminar
for University of Reading's Film, Theatre & TV department: Wednesday 25 February, 14.00 - 15.30, "Muriel Box, 'The Truth About Women', and the truth about women directors" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muriel-box...
Real Cinema History: closeups were for cats
13.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 127 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1😂 I wrote a piece for the British Film Editors journal about accounts of early(ish) use of cat close-ups - "Fox-cats" and cries of "cut to a basket of kittens!" in cutting rooms of the 1920s. Of course I acknowledged the vital influence of 'The Sick Kitten'.
13.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you @slapstickfest.bsky.social and @robinince.bsky.social for a fantastic evening + screening of One Cut of the Dead 🧟
The Boomsatsuma student films really made the evening special. All the submissions were excellent 📽️
An honour and a pleasure to be involved 💜
A wide shot of the covered paved walkway outside Watershed cinema, showing the Watershed sign overhead in rainbow colours. Bristol harbourside is visible in the distance.
A photo looking over the heads of the audience towards the screen of Watershed cinema one. The image on the screen in teal, orange and white shows the Slapstick Festival logo and the event title "BUSTER KEATON: LE ROI DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES". There is a lectern with Polly Rose behind it, a short person with short dark hair wearing glasses with dark frames, a dark jacket and white t-shirt.
A view of the cinema screen in Watershed cinema one. In the foreground you can see the back of the heads of some audience members. The screen is showing an image of an original poster from 1923, it shows a man in nineteenth century dress sitting at a table and looking worried. The poster text reads: BUSTER KEATON IN OUR HOSPITALITY A METRO PICTURE IN 7 PARTS. On the right of the screen is a lectern with a person speaking to the audience, a piano with a man sitting behind it, and another man with a small drum kit.
A photo of a cinema screen. On the screen is a smiling woman with short hair and glasses, wearing a green top and light orange scarf. Behind her is a desk with a lamp, and a shelf with watercolour paintings. In front of the cinema screen sits a person with short dark hair and glasses wearing a blue suit and holding a red microphone; and a man wearing black clothes with long grey hair in a ponytail who is signing the conversation for the audience. Some audience members are visible from behind, watching the stage.
A big thank you to the @slapstickfest.bsky.social team for a great festival. It was a delight to be part of it and to present two Keaton films - many thanks to musicians John Sweeney 🎹 & Frank Bockius 🥁, BSL Paul Mancini 🧏🏻
and to Buster's granddaughter Melissa Talmadge Cox for joining us!
This was such a fun screening, with a great audience and a lot of laughs. Thanks @davidthlewis.bsky.social 😊
09.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for coming along @zipnolan.bsky.social! So glad you enjoyed the screening
09.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey #Bristol film fans! Keep an eye out for our Sergio Leone Weekend poster around town. #SergioLeone #Western #spaghetti
The poster includes more info about the weekend including which #SilentFilm we’re screening… passes available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/meg...
We miss you, John.
06.02.2026 16:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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15.11.2025 09:41 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Collage of 40 images of archives and rare books held at the University of Exeter Special Collections.
📣 Job alert!
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!
Closing date: 11 December 2025
For full details and to apply see: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
Amazing 36-film series at Film Forum in New York to honour the legendary Kevin Brownlow. filmforum.org/series/kevin...
25.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Drop some eyes 👀
21.09.2025 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE (1926) aka "What if Hal Roach did Die Fledermaus and made it even sassier?"
20.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️
📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto also has a fantastic online #SilentFilm festival running alongside the Pordenone screenings, highly recommended if you can't make it to the festival in person.
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/abbonamenti-...
More than 72% of tickets now sold for screening of rarely seen Bristol films 26 October with @swsilents.bsky.social. Book here: www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail...
19.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!!
You can join here:
lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/...
We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
Awwww! Never seen this one before, how lovely.
19.09.2025 10:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
