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@cinemiasma.bsky.social

film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com

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You're in luck! You can find most of the Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver 16mm short films curated by @cinemiasma.bsky.social online! 🧡

THE BOY WHO LIKED DEER (1975) streaming via @avgeeks.bsky.social on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Gn...

29.07.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks so much, this is all good to know! the pink issue seems consistent with several other prints we've looked at.

28.07.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yes the print looks fantastic!

28.07.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh so sorry to hear this Shannan.

28.07.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

amazing!

28.07.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes I would love to know what the condition is of these two prints. All the versions we have seen thus far have been very beat up. Would be great to know of more print sources for an ongoing project towards restoration of Loden's (and possibly Silver's) 16mm LCA shorts.

28.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Wish you could have been there Shelley! ❀️

28.07.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much for coming Elizabeth and great to meet you!

28.07.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredible program of films by Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver today @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, featuring an illuminating post-screening discussion with curator @cinemiasma.bsky.social and producer Linda Gottlieb!

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Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social in conversation w/ Learning Corporation of America producer Linda Gottlieb after five-film screening of #nontheatrical educational films by Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver @anthologyfilm.bsky.social!

28.07.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic Europea...

In the Deren theater, so book early! www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

27.07.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rarely screened & vital women’s film history: today
Sun@5:45 in THE WORLD OF BARBARA LODEN @anthologyfilm.bsky.social Loden & Joan Micklin Silver’s 16mm educational shorts. Linda Gottlieb, Learning Corporation producer will discuss LCA history & memories of her friend Silver. Xtra special program!

27.07.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Wanda

The terrific series The World of Barbara Loden starts tonight at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social with Wanda at 6:30pm and Katja Raganelli's documentary I Am Wanda (scroll down) at 9:15pm...
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25.07.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why We Like to See Directors Talking For some filmmakers, interviews are a parallel creation to savor at length, apart from any of their specific movies that might be under discussion.

Meant to say, kudos to @cinemiasma.bsky.social for the teeming Barbara Loden series at Anthology Film Archives; the clip of her w/John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the Mike Douglas Show (6:15pm tonight) reminded me that I'd mentioned it in this piece on the wider context:
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

26.07.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going to two screenings of Barbara Loden TV work this weekend:

24.07.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Soo excited to catch some Barbara Loden at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this week! Bravo @cinemiasma.bsky.social!

23.07.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE WORLD OF BARBARA LODEN
July 25 - August 10

Guest-programmed by @cinemiasma.bsky.social

Details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

23.07.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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You made me love you (2005) 4 minutes, video Synopsis: Twenty-one dancers play a game of cat and mouse with an unpredictable camera. Losing contact can be traumatic. Β  Β In the works of Miranda Pennell, minor …

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20.07.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic Europea...

At Anthology Film Archives Jul 25, β€œThe World of Barbara Loden” examines the work of unforgettable director & star of WANDA. A slightly diff iteration of BFI season, w deep cuts into Loden’s TV career. I”ll give a talk to launch series & my book July 25 www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

09.07.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œI wanted to approach the curation from a position of abundance”: Wanda and Beyond curator Elena Gorfinkel on her season around one-feature filmmaker Barbara Loden North Carolina native Barbara Loden only made one feature, but that film – Wanda – has endured as a lodestar for feminist filmmakers. We speak to Elena Gorfinkel, curator of a new BFI season about Lod...

BOTD Barbara Loden!! Best known for her indie landmark Wanda
Appreciations:
Amy Taubin: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
@dwhdaily.bsky.social:
www.criterion.com/current/post...
@cinemiasma.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/i...

08.07.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ͺCheck out our #nonfiction books and authors that are hot this week!

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@cinemiasma.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing

20.06.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Capital Celluloid 2025 β€” Day 171: Sat Jun 21 Chelsea Girls (Warhol/Morrissey, 1966): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 1.15pm This 16mm screening in the Wanda and Beyond season (full details here )...

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 21 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Warhol/Morrissey's CHELSEA GIRLS 1966 16mm at BFI in 'Wanda & Beyond' season, intro by Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

21.06.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Warhol/Morrissey’s Chelsea Girls on 16mm (x 2) at BFI was a woozy trip – irritating, euphoric, droll, repellent and (eventually) extremely shocking, came with an elite intro c/o @cinemiasma.bsky.social.

21.06.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CHELSEA GIRLS sold out NFT3 in 2 hours so has been moved to NFT1- more tickets now available! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

11.06.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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delighted that THE CHELSEA GIRLS screening on June 21st at BFI is ON. Part of the WANDA & BEYOND season on Barbara Loden. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

10.06.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Capital Celluloid 2025 β€” Day 161: Wed Jun 11 Diary of a Mad Housewife (Perry, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm This film, also screening on June 21st, is part of the Wanda and Beyond ...

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 11 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'imaginatively scripted & acted (Benjamin is superbly repellent) ... an entertaining satire' @geoff-andrew.bsky.social DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE (1970) in Wanda and beyond season at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

11.06.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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delighted that THE CHELSEA GIRLS screening on June 21st at BFI is ON. Part of the WANDA & BEYOND season on Barbara Loden. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

10.06.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Capital Celluloid 2025 β€” Day 159: Mon Jun 9 Fade In (Taylor, 1968): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm This film is part of the Wanda and Beyond season at BFI Southbank. Full details here . ...

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 9 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Ultra rare screening of original β€˜Alan Smithee’ vehicle, romantic drama FADE IN (1968) w/ Burt Reynolds & Barbara Loden in 'Wanda & Beyond' season at BFI w/ intro by @cinemiasma.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

09.06.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen reads: "Wanda and beyond - the world of Barbara Loden, June 2025, BFI Southbank."

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen reads: "Wanda and beyond - the world of Barbara Loden, June 2025, BFI Southbank."

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen is a signed photograph of Barbara Loden.

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen is a signed photograph of Barbara Loden.

Elena Gorfinkel's introduction to "Wanda and Beyond - the world of Barbara Loden" began a season of Loden screenings at BFI Southbank last evening in London! Gorfinkel's notes on the film and the filmmaker appear in FQ's forthcoming Summer issue...

04.06.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI wanted to approach the curation from a position of abundance”: Wanda and Beyond curator Elena Gorfinkel on her season around one-feature filmmaker Barbara Loden North Carolina native Barbara Loden only made one feature, but that film – Wanda – has endured as a lodestar for feminist filmmakers. We speak to Elena Gorfinkel, curator of a new BFI season about Lod...

Of Interest: Rachel Pronger interview w/ @cinemiasma.bsky.social re her "Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden" slate @ BFI Southbank
"I wanted to... counter the idea that one couldn’t stage a programme around Loden because she had β€˜too little’ work.”
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/i...

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