michael metzger

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

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The Homosexuals, Hearts in Exile [UK, Art Punk] (1978)

The Homosexuals, Hearts in Exile [UK, Art Punk] (1978)
https://redd.it/u1zdq6
https://youtu.be/vgPoHUajcY4

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

YouTube video by sipsun8 Working Week - Venceremos (We Will Win) (1984) full 12" Single

did you know robert wyatt and tracey thorn duet on a latin jazz/sophisti-pop anthem written in solidarity with the victims of the pinochet regime? didn’t think so m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTd...

Joseph Losey’s ACCIDENT
Emmanuel Bourdieu’s POISON FRIENDS and Arnaud Desplechin’s MY SEX LIFE

i think it’s pedagogical malpractice NOT to teach at least a few that students will hate! I always try to teach at least one that everyone will stand together in loathing for the right reasons. Hating films in a rigorous, principled, prosocial way is something we should be modeling for students!

drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Family Fodder, Film Music [UK, Art Pop] (1981)

Family Fodder, Film Music [UK, Art Pop] (1981)
https://redd.it/u1fzo7
https://youtu.be/jDNs6wOvK7E

Jfc.

The US economy is cooked, you all know this, right?

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

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listened to this 1997 Rachel’s show last night, really beautiful recording archive.org/details/ajc0...

farocki if you want tomas’ trio? the matrix and ghost in the shell seem like the most significant ones missing here, but putting in a word for colossus: the forbin project, demon seed, and yes, AI.

screening on 16mm for free this friday at block cinema at northwestern! www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2026/...

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That’s a relief to hear i suppose! i’d much rather this place be an outlier…

i’m laughably old-school about this but it feels like younger profs and graduate students i encounter have largely given up the idea that screening is a core pedagogical element of film studies, which is slow disciplinary suicide to my mind

it’s not always university officials who are cutting these. a lot of faculty at a certain university i work at have given up on the idea of dedicated screening. there’s a lot of excusemaking about student schedules but frankly i think it’s largely out of laziness

this film is too insane for me not to love it. especially impressed by the strobe/eeg machine that induces multi-layered psychic eavesdropping into states of possession. also the sick Goblin-mode Morricone score

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Indeed.
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Late August at the Hotel Ozone

I feel resentful of these governors like Walz and Pritzker when they ask citizens to do this risky work against federal agents but then let their own state police and municipal cops arrest, beat and jail their citizens while doing this risky work they’ve been asked to do

pretty incendiary stuff, kinda surprised it’s just sitting there on Tubi. I’d say something banal like how this is a ‘movie for our moment’ but it’s from 2018 so it’s more about how nothing has changed in our post-Patriot Act police state

some of them (like HOW TO LIVE IN THE FRG, CREATORS OF SHOPPING WORLDS, and DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE CONSUMER) are also laugh-out-loud funny

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edge of darkness, a masterpiece! m.ok.ru/video/271142...

i’d love to look at your syllabus if you don’t mind sharing!