Faith Selby Bresson
@fas.bsky.social
engineer, runner, filmmaker • machine learning, film distribution/exhibition • beach soul, mountain energy building a virtual cinema for overlooked international film holocene.club 🎥🌌 🇫🇷🇰🇷
We’re excited to share. 'Affection, Affection' by Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray, will be part of Holocene’s launch this Oct. Set on the French Riviera, a teenage girl’s disappearance leads to an increasingly surreal investigation populated by eccentric characters and unexpected turns. #filmsky
After a long stretch building in private, Holocene is starting to take shape. We're a virtual cinema for international and independent film, where films screen as events instead of sitting in an endless catalogue. Eight titles are already confirmed with more coming. Launching this autumn. #filmsky
A Hong Kong independent bookshop that national security police raided this month announced it would close after 50 years in business, while another shut down ahead of schedule.
Hong Kong independent bookstores to close after police raid
Police searched the two bookshops this month and arrested five people on suspicion of displaying and selling “items with seditious intent.”
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Since Obama is trending....one of my favorite quotes! 💜🌻🥰
Watch some of Christopher Nolan's wonderful Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel!✨ JOHN CASSAVETES: FIVE FILMS FOR ALL MANKIND THE COMPLETE MR. ARKADIN THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE THE APU TRILOGY MARTIN SCORSESE'S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT LOST HIGHWAY THE PLAYER BOYHOOD
Christopher Nolan’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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It feels so great to be confirming film titles for Holocene's launch after such a long wait in development
English and French players huddle together after the match. With only a couple of exceptions, the camaraderie and fair play this World Cup has been exemplary!
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is quitting X -- significantly her department is too, she says.
Kylian Mbappé at the men's World Cup: ◽️ 18 games ◽️ 17 goals (second most ever) ◽️ 9 knockout goals (most ever) Oh, and he's only 27 years old.
Naomi Osaka walked into Wimbledon carrying both a tennis bag and generations of Japanese cultural elegance. Absolute slay. 🤍🇯🇵
very cool “That opens up a whole new world of exploring. We could see cells interacting with each other, exchanging material and building skeletons. And we could do that live on the ship, when usually it takes a couple of weeks of staining and mounting to see anything”
‘Chock full of incredible animals’: marine expedition uncovers 31 new species in two weeks
Experts worked in ocean midwater off Brazil at near-record speeds thanks to cutting-edge tech
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Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...
Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney
Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
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“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let that happen again.” — Carl Sagan
China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines
China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines
Unless a film is given ‘dragon seal’ approval from communist state officials, it will never be released in China
theguardian.com
"We over-rationalise the past, we dramatise the present and because of this we underestimate the future." This is what Finnish President Alexander Stubb said earlier this week at the Eurelectric Power Summit right before my keynote. My final slide could not have been a better fit.
