Kim Halliday

Title design from VERTIGO

Title design from NORTH BY NORTHWEST

Title design from PSYCHO

Title design from CAPE FEAR

Saul Bass x Bernard Herrmann

Title designs from:
VERTIGO (Hitchcock, 1958)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Hitchcock, 1959)
PSYCHO (Hitchcock, 1960)
CAPE FEAR (Scorsese, 1991)

Movie poster for The Conspiracists. The image shows a middle-aged woman sitting indoors in a dimly lit room, turned slightly in profile. She wears a tan baseball cap with two upright feathers tucked into the back, a red bandana underneath the cap, and a dark zip-up hoodie over a light T-shirt. Her right hand is extended mid-gesture as if explaining something. She sits on a couch near a window with patterned curtains; daylight filters in from the left, casting soft light on her face while the right side of the frame fades into shadow. Across the top right portion of the poster are five white festival laurel graphics with text inside them. From left to right they read: “OFFICIAL SELECTION American Documentary and Animation Film Festival 2025” “Nominee Toronto International Women Film Festival 2025” “WINNER Miami Women Film Festival 2025” “EXCEPTIONAL MERIT Documentaries Without Borders International Film Festival” “FILM & MEDIA FESTIVAL New Orleans 2025” Centered prominently in large white bold text: “The Conspiracists” Below the title, in smaller yellow text: “A Liz Smith Film” At the bottom in small white credits text: “PAGE75 PRODUCTIONS presents a LIZ SMITH film produced by CHANTELLE DE CARVALHO Executive Producers BRIAN SELMAN and LIZ SMITH Associate Producer NOELLE COOK Composer KIM HALLIDAY Featuring YVONNE ST CYR, TAMMY BUTRY, NOELLE COOK, LIZ SMITH, JILL MCCARTNEY, TROY ST CYR, BRIANNE CHAPMAN © 2025 PAGE75 PRODUCTIONS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” Centered at the very bottom in white text: “www.theconspiracistsfilm.com”

In April, I’ll join Liz for London screenings and conversations at Curzon Soho, The Lexi, and Act One Cinema. I’m curious how UK audiences respond to The Conspiracists, given how these dynamics have extended well beyond the U.S. Details below:
page75productions.com/2026/02/11/p...

THE CONSPIRACISTS + LIVE Q&A | Kim Halliday https://lnkd.in/empTrn3p A “Jan 6” insurrectionist takes a British filmmaker and an American researcher on a road trip and attempts to convert them to her world of conspiracy theories. Come to Acton...

I know most people on here aren’t in that #London, but if you are, there’s this: www.linkedin.com/posts/kimhal...

And if you go to here: linktr.ee/theconspirac... you can find screenings near you! (Hopefully !)

Always bird's plan - a short, short story. I was going to chat about the recent weather here.

guydenning.substack.com/p/always-bir...

An interview with filmmaker Natalie Cubides-Brady about hybrid film and guilty landscapes in London and South America uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/hybrid-lan...

If you research St James Fair in Bristol, you’ll find a story about someone who exhibited a “fairy” which was a shaved monkey! I made a Bristol audio tour thing here: unpleasantville.com

Thanks to The Conspirituality Podcast for having me on, and to Matthew for a great conversation. I really enjoyed it.

'punk'd' book cover, 2021

close-up details from one of 2025's last drawings

292: Women of Jan 6 (w/ Noelle Cook) — Conspirituality Noelle Cook’s The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging is the first ethnography of conspirituality, and it comes via someone who was able to really embed themselves in a volatile...

Noelle Cook's The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging is the first ethnography of conspirituality. She’s our guest today.

@noellecook.com

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/292-women-of-jan-6-noelle-cook

Alexandria Jacobson sits down with Noel Cook, author of The Conspiracists. Read the full story at bit.ly/4biElhO

#January6 #Politics #InvestigativeJournalism #News #WomenInPolitics #RawStory #PoliticalNews

“Just got out of an Uber” is the new “Man walks into a bar”?

Cosmic Glue Happy Birthday, David Jones…

I wrote about #davidbowie!
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Noelle Cook arrived in DC on Jan. 6 to photograph the Stop the Steal rally, expecting to gather some images for a project in women’s and gender studies. She ended up chronicling an insurrection — and, more unexpectedly, growing close to some of the women who breached the U.S. Capitol that day.

Change the law to fix music streaming It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing to Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming!

Please consider adding your support to this petition. It's not fair to take money from subscribers and not pass it on to the people who made the music! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ch...

Cosmic Glue Happy Birthday, David Jones…

Happy birthday, #davidbowie open.substack.com/pub/kimhalli...

'from afar'

Wellness to Weaponization: How Women Are Drawn into Conspiracy Extremism (with Noelle Cook) Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · 01/04/2026 · 34m

Never imagined I’d get to sit down with CIA agents for a conversation. Life is weird.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

The Conspiracists on featured display at the largest independent bookstore in Southern California! Go Noelle!

The only way I’d watch it again it is if @aiannucci.bsky.social was in charge and the panellists were dressed as pantomime dames.

Oh yes please! Day two, Question Time.

Here’s something to watch if you don’t fancy Die Hard or Charlie’s Christmas Message…

Remember, a documentary is for life, not just Christmas!

#defendourjuries #documentary

detail from the icarus (last day) triptych, 2007

What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle The art activists made headlines during the US president’s state visit when they shocked the waiting media with a short documentary – and were quickly arrested

@ledbydonkeys.org in The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

If there is a “Naughty List”… I’m pretty sure I’m on it.

It's a short day, so it's a short piece! More babbling from me on Substack...

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YouTube video by Page75 Investigates Requiem For Protest II

We've made a second episode of Requiem For Protest. This time we documented what happened outside the RCJ on the first day of the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. Once again 100s of people taking part in the @defendourjuries.bsky.social Lift The Ban campaign were arrested.

The Line We Crossed A British story of dissent, drawn from the frontlines of climate resistance. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the quiet unraveling of our protest rights.

THE LINE WE CROSSED is now available to stream.
Told through the eyes of climate campaigners, the film explores the repression of the right to protest in the UK.
Every purchase directly supports our independent human rights filmmaking. Thank you for watching and supporting. 💙

'the start'

Glad to see The Conspiracists receive such a thoughtful review from Foreword Reviews. They call it “an immersive, nuanced work of biographical journalism that illuminates a worrying cultural trend.” The Conspiracists is out January 6th.
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

Well, this is very exciting! Just in time for your Christmas stockings!