Sid Fiore Branca
@sidbranca.bsky.social
i make & study moving images, the pervert’s medium 🎭🩸 📹 they/them. Montréal & Chicago. phd researcher into horror, experimental 🎞️ & 📼 , cinema depictions of stage performance, & the history of clowns in film. director of https://quietinthehouse.com
getting my dvd/blu-ray player and crappy little projector set back up before actually unpacking from my 10 weeks of travel: correct priorities not immediately dealing with the horrifying discovery that my compost bin out on the balcony is full of maggots: sheer fear
i did not grow up catholic but i did grow up new york italian american, so you know when i realized i’d left one of my bags on a bench outside the airport i was CLUTCHING my st. christopher pendant; once i got back it was still there, accompanied by an elderly francophone gentleman chainsmoking 🙏🏻
after frantically packing the things i have traveled with and accumulated over 10 weeks, getting ready to walk out the door at the exact last minute to make a flight: ah, it would seem one of the cats has pissed on or perhaps in my boot. but i have no better option than to proceed as planned.
i have seen two very different groups of people playing hacky sack in the last 24 hours, i think the hack is back babyyyyy
my take on movie end credits scenes is that you should stay to the end of the goddamn credits of every single movie! because many people work hard to make a movie, even a terrible one, and it should be a joy to honor their labor! but: exception granted if you have to piss real bad
Step 3: take advantage of the increased desperation of human creators, and sell them services that promise to promote their work and surface it to an audience. Step 4: use GenAI to create slop versions of the human material (while also collecting that human content to feed the LLM.)
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
thank you for the good vibes y’all because i did indeed recover in time and the screening and talk was a delight!
Sid Fiore Branca@sidbranca.bsky.social · 6d agoright now i feel exhausted but otherwise normal like maybe i don’t have food poisoning anymore so please please please let this be true because i am supposed to conduct a public interview at a fancy venue tomorrow 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
psychically communicating to the group of teenage girls taking sassy photos downtown in chicago that i suddenly gawked at them not because i was being judgmental or a creep but because their outfits were all so very ripped right out of 2003 long island that i saw time and space collapse before me
saw someone link to a 6 hour youtube video essay and say it’s really good. Buddy if i’m watching anything 6 hours long it better be an eastern european art movie that’s been newly restored
delighted to say i seem to have recovered from food poisoning in time to be at the Arts Club of Chicago tonight to lead a discussion with my dear friend & collaborator Derek Spencer about his gorgeous new film made in response to sculptures by Oren Pinhassi www.artsclubchicago.org/program/film...
And Do for Her What He Would Do For Me: Film Screening and Discussion with Derek Spencer
Filmmaker and theater artist Derek Spencer screens and discusses a new work made in reference to Oren Pinhassi's currently-on-view exhibition Into Your Arm's Length.
artsclubchicago.org
right now i feel exhausted but otherwise normal like maybe i don’t have food poisoning anymore so please please please let this be true because i am supposed to conduct a public interview at a fancy venue tomorrow 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
listen, i have certainly made the stylistic choice to record a voiceover for a piece really close up for particular reasons, but overall??? everybody holds their little microphones too damn close to their mouths! a lav mic is meant to be clipped on your shirt not stuck in your lip gloss!!!!
greetings from my convalescence hammock where i am practicing gratitude: - there’s a hammock and sunny weather for me to lay around feeling like death in - i got sick (food poisoning, cyclosporiasis, idk) the day *after* a date so i could enjoy having a body before being abjectly gross for a while
bro i do not recommend the experience i am currently having
Sid Fiore Branca@sidbranca.bsky.social · last wk.jury’s out on whether i’m having side effects from stopping a med i can’t refill until i get back to quebec, regular ol’ sick, or if i got got by the “collapse of united states food safety in the face of unrestrained greed” parasite less than a week before i go back to canada 🙃
jury’s out on whether i’m having side effects from stopping a med i can’t refill until i get back to quebec, regular ol’ sick, or if i got got by the “collapse of united states food safety in the face of unrestrained greed” parasite less than a week before i go back to canada 🙃
the astrology app beef currently unfolding is fascinating to me because i feel like it exemplifies a number of reasons why a lot of people are currently drawn to astrology and the very different directions that can go
finally saw Sinners & yes overall loved it & have many thoughts & one of them is that time a girl came up to me ready to FIGHT bc she thought i was at the goth club with the very tall goth musician boy she was into, but in fact i was seeing the very tall goth musician boy who was his identical twin
the sky at 4:37pm today in chicago // the sky at 7:08pm today in chicago
lol to this point, i may be seeing The Odyssey alone bc logistics demand that i go see it at 10:45am on saturday in order to see it on 70mm while still in town & be out in time for other obligations, unless someone i know in chicago wants to be at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social w me instead of brunch
Sid Fiore Branca@sidbranca.bsky.social · last wk.it came up in conversation recently that i often go to the movies alone (i also often go to the movies with people; i watch a lot of movies) and multiple people were surprised and said they never do that, which in turn surprised *me*! hell i saw Satantango alone lol
welp it looks like i’m not going to make it though a summer in the united states without having to have an extraordinarily annoying situation with the woefully under-resourced postal service
it came up in conversation recently that i often go to the movies alone (i also often go to the movies with people; i watch a lot of movies) and multiple people were surprised and said they never do that, which in turn surprised *me*! hell i saw Satantango alone lol
K8 Hagen 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · last wk.I am admittedly independent to a fault but every day I get on Al Gore’s internet + see a 45 year old saying something like “eating alone in a restaurant for the first time, wish me luck!” or “first solo concert,” which is absolutely fascinating to me! Do you guys not enjoy your own company orrrrr
suddenly remembered the maybe 23 year-old stranger who did such an incredible job of singing Don’t Rain on My Parade at karaoke last night that i started briefly crying in the bar about my dead grandmother
also i am trying to work up to singing in french at karaoke in montreal by singing in french at karaoke in chicago
Sid Fiore Branca@sidbranca.bsky.social · 2w agoalright boys, reset the counter number of days since i last skinned my knees singing iggy pop at karaoke running into the crowd and writhing around on the floor of the bar: 0
alright boys, reset the counter number of days since i last skinned my knees singing iggy pop at karaoke running into the crowd and writhing around on the floor of the bar: 0
I FUCKING DID IT i have a functional cut of this two minutes and fifty-four seconds that has been driving me nuts for several editing sessions now to celebrate as is traditional when accomplishing the impossible with your indie film in chicago (drink malört in a dive bar with joe swanberg)
Sid Fiore Branca@sidbranca.bsky.social · 2w agoso help me god today i AM going to finish editing this ~3 minute sequence from my feature film that i've been working on for DAYS (current count is 68 cuts, which is really not that many i guess but it's been a Process)
so help me god today i AM going to finish editing this ~3 minute sequence from my feature film that i've been working on for DAYS (current count is 68 cuts, which is really not that many i guess but it's been a Process)
this is tangential to the prompt but reminded me: having met a lot of notable cartoonists/alt comics artists, many are far more good-looking and charming in real life than they draw themselves as being, but Joe Sacco is so unexpectedly handsome in person that i actually blushed
Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 2w agoRandom question: what celebrity have you met in real life who was dramatically better looking than ypu thought they were based on on screen appearance?
what the wide angle lens is doing to this lanky ass dog’s limbs keeps making me laugh (took my buddy Hank for some walks today)
