Prano Bailey-Bond

There’s the part of you that’s always been a writer, and (harder fought) the part of you ready to own and acknowledge it.

Today’s Writers’ Gym episode features award-winning director and screenwriter @pranobaileybond.bsky.social talking writing health, writing voice, creativity and curiosity.

Thank you so much Andrew!

Censor

Not only will the @pranobaileybond.bsky.social feature film Censor be screened as part of Aberdeen’s Granite Noir Festival this month, the Belmont Cinema Film Club will be discussing it a couple of nights after it’s screened.

The brilliant @pranobaileybond.bsky.social joined @mikemuncer.bsky.social and me at @regentstcinema.bsky.social last night to chat David Lynch and Mulholland Drive. Thanks to everyone who came along!
Tickets for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (26 March) are on sale now 🎟️ evolutionofhorror.com/events

Hi Jez - there isn't a definitive list of clips online but they will all be listed in the end credits of the film. The ones you list all feature :)

Honoured to have been invited to write for Empire Magazine on what David Lynch meant to me. It was very moving to write. And proud to be included alongside Nicholas Cage, Dexter Fletcher and others who worked with Lynch in this beautiful 12-page spread in Empire’s new issue ❤️

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

The Prince Charles Cinema is the best cinema IN THE WORLD. A true indie with the greatest audience. Bringing movies new and old to the big screen. Regularly showing films on 35mm and 70mm. Please sign this petition to protect the @princecharlescinema.com ❤️

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This woman has more moral clarity and fortitude than Trump and all of his family & sycophants combined

Oh, 100% ♥️

It was an Xmas present she got from our dad, which I swiftly robbed :) I think you can still buy them

I stole this t-shirt off my older sister when I was 7 or 8 and wore it to primary school with such pride, so unimpressed by other kids asking me why my t-shirt said I killed some random girl, knowing they were missing out on that glorious nightmare fuel!

David Lynch, a treasure. We were so lucky to have him. His work exists in its own realm & always will. He created his own language & we all tuned in. An inspiration to so many of us. We owe him SO much. Rest in Cosmic Peace, David Lynch, the greatest, my hero 🤍🤍🤍

Drum roll please.... for I have seen many films I liked and admired this year BUT - "Which films did you LOVE, Prano?" I hear you (not) ask.... Well if you must (not) ask, it was these ones :)

Yuka - The Mobile App That Scans Your Products Yuka is an 100% independent app that scans food and cosmetic products in order to know their impact on your health.

Best app ever: yuka.io/en/

There's a brilliant app called YUKA where you can scan barcodes of food and cosmetics and it will tell you if the product contains nasty chemicals. It's crazy how many of our foods etc are stuffed with these things.

On the Importance of Remembering When Derek passed away without a next of kin, it was a stark reminder of lives that too often go unnoticed. Filmmaker and photographer Mark Chapman tells us about his friend Derek, challenging us to r...

An extremely beautiful, important & moving piece of writing by Mark after attending Derek's funeral last week. Derek was Mark's friend & the subject of his longterm photo-project. He will be very missed in our household 🤍 www.mag-north.com/posts/on-the...

I find it remarkable that CENSOR (2021) is @pranobaileybond.bsky.social first feature film.

An atmospheric, visceral piece of cinema that wears its influences proudl. It deals with themes of trauma, repression & isolation.

The period details are fantastic, the production design bleak & unnerving.

Thank you so much! 🖤

Coralie Fargeat pulls ‘The Substance’ from Camerimage amid furore over fest director remarks Polish cinematography festival runs November 16-23.

Massive respect to Coralie Fargeat for this. Sad to see Żydowicz responding so defensively to the ASC/BSC statements and not reflecting more on how his comments have come across. www.screendaily.com/news/coralie...

First page of chapter one of “The Weird and the Eerie”, written by the late Mark Fisher. Text reads: The Out of Place and the Out of Time: Lovecraft and the Weird What is the weird? When we say something is weird, what kind of feeling are we pointing to? I want to argue that the weird is a particular kind of perturbation. It involves a sensation of wrongness: a weird entity or object is so strange that it makes us feel that it should not exist, or at least it should not exist here. Yet if the entity or object is here, then the categories which we have up until now used to make sense of the world cannot be valid. The weird thing is not wrong, after all: it is our conceptions that must be inadequate. Dictionary definitions are not always much help in defining the weird. Some refer immediately to the supernatural, but it is by no means clear that supernatural entities must be weird. In many ways, a natural phenomenon such as a black hole is more weird than a vampire. Certainly, when it comes to fiction, the very generic recognisability of creatures such as vampires and werewolves disqualifies them from provoking any sensation of weirdness. There is a pre-existing lore, a set of protocols for interpreting and placing the vampire and the werewolf. In any case, these creatures are merely empirically monstrous; their appearance recombines elements from the natural world as we already understand it. At the same time, the very fact that they are supernatural entities means that any strangeness they possess is now attributed to a realm beyond nature. Compare this to a black hole: the bizarre ways in which it bends space and time are completely outside our common experience, and yet a black hole belongs to the nat-ural-material cosmos - a cosmos which must therefore be much stranger than our ordinary experience can comprehend.

From “The Weird and the Eerie” by the late Mark Fisher

UK Next Wave Genre Lab selects projects, contributors for second phase (exclusive) 'Love Lies Bleeding' producer Andrea Cornwell is among contributors to the scheme.

Looking forward to mentoring these filmmakers on the Next Wave Genre Lab in a few weeks ✨ www.screendaily.com/news/uk-next...