Alex F 🇵🇸

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Alex F 🇵🇸

@alexcfields

Words on avant garde film etc @toneglow, @InRO @ultradogme https://t.co/pza3vBdn0h etc. Union steward, Appalachian, historical materialist. they/them

Knoxville, TN 가입일 Eylül 2014

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·10 Mar

I interviewed the directors of the best film of 2026 so far

Tone Glow@toneglow

"When we found something that seemed inherently uncinematic we were like, 'Is there a way to make it cinematic?' It becomes high stakes… but at least it gives you something to shoot for." —Kevin Walker @alexcfields talks with Jack Auen & Kevin Walker about CHRONOVISOR (2026)

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·58m

@Anandsudha31 Just watched the new Amit Dutta film about Eberhard Fischer which opens with a note about Goswamy’s passing. I should read that book

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Anand Sudha@Anandsudha31·1h

@alexcfields Thanks for the reccs! For those who want to look at Indian art history (I know less about other countries, happy to take reccos), B.N. Goswamy's The Spirit of Indian painting is a good intro that also opens up new ways of seeing.

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6h

Here are good books that will not just teach you some of the history but also new ways to think about art

shain 📚@shainreads

What's the best way to learn Art History is there like a good book or course or can someone just teach me it

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6h

the Yale Pelican series is strong across the board, many/most of them classics. The 20th century is too big a field for a few books but some important critics: Rosenberg Schapiro Steinberg Greenberg Fried Clark Krauss Foster Buchloh Bernstein

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6h

If you have zero background then starting with something like Gombrich probably makes sense but definitely don’t stop there

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ULTRA DOGME@ultradogme·9h

NOW STREAMING: IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE BY DEBORAH STRATMAN A brand-new digitization of Stratman's incisive rendering of American suburbia as a panopticon, available for one week only. Streaming through March 27 at patreon.com/ultradogme Special thanks to @canyoncinema

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·2d

every person on this jury is wondering if they’re on that fake courtroom show where everyone is a paid actor but them

Nora B.S.@Ms_GarbageBrain

This is the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen in my life @KattN0tWilliams

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·2d

I changed my mind true crime trial streaming is good actually

Afroman@ogafroman

Attorney - "But we all know that's not true...correct?" Randy (son of a bitch) Walters - "I don't know"

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whit strub@whitstrub·3d

we've got cover art! Films That Explode Like Grenades: Robert Kramer and the Search for a Radical Cinema from University of Chicago Press, June 2026 kinda can't believe this is real, but here it is: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·2d

the score is Gustav Holst’s THE PLANETS, and it does work exceptionally well, we talked about that and much else when I interviewed the directors: toneglow.substack.com/p/film-show-06…

Andrew T@ohcrapitsandrew

Have had the privilege to see a few @NDNF titles and my fave so far is Chronovisor. Beautiful orchestral score, quite rare for this kind of experimental film. What phone calls do I need to make for the Philharmonic to perform it live to picture?

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·3d

@sbodrojan okay fine I’ll watch dune 3

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helmet girl@sbodrojan·3d

Thought “she’s especially pretty here!” And then I realized….septum piercing and a wolf cut w bangs…

Film Updates@FilmUpdates

Anya Taylor-Joy returns as Alia Atreides in ‘DUNE: PART THREE’

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ULTRA DOGME@ultradogme·5d

Our contribution to @ChuteCoop 's free streaming, Chute Open, is online! STARS IN MY POCKET - 7 films where the enormity of nature & our relationship to it is conveyed through cinema & with varyingly simple, unusual & highly expressive formal approaches. chutecoop.com/stars-in-my-po…

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6d

I think there’s no such thing as beauty in the abstract, and every instance of beauty like a painting or composition has much to say about the social world it emerges from and our present relationship to that world

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6d

This + people who care about such tiny institutions should contribute what $ they can to them to make payment possible and help them survive

Chris Bell@UpdateTheGrids

Feel like if your tiny institution (mag) makes money then you should share the money with those who put work into it. If it doesn’t make money then you don’t because you can’t. If a writer signs up for that, that’s their prerogative — feels pretty cut and dry?

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6d

@cj_prin only a matter of time before someone makes a criterion closet found footage horror

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C.J. Prince@cj_prin·13 Mar

how you'd find me in the criterion closet

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6d

I also figured out how to stop the war in Iran but that one’s gonna have to wait for placement in a print edition

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·6d

I was thinking about it all night and I figured out a perfect solution to the crisis of culture writing and criticism, but out of leftist principle I’m not going to share it until a magazine commissions me at an hourly rate

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·14 Mar

@BurialMagazine @fedafter12am get his ass

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Z.H. (Burial Magazine)@BurialMagazine·14 Mar

@fedafter12am DANIEL GORMAN STOP PLAYING WITH MY HEART AND FOLLOW ME. I FOLLOWED UNFOLLOWED YOU SO MANY TIMES

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devin morgan@fedafter12am·14 Mar

It's very funny when people yell at @BurialMagazine cause he's a sweetheart and my life has only gotten better having him as a friend (he is not pointing a gun at me to say this)

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·14 Mar

@HELIOARIA Sucks ass imo

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Bean@HELIOARIA·14 Mar

I think its just a hard place to be in now. No one wants to be exploited, but so much just wont get done without sacrifice. It’s terrible to ask for but that is the system we are under. Do we just stop creating because of that? Seems unfair :(

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Bean@HELIOARIA·14 Mar

There is a conversation budding here around artistic exceptionalism, and how it is deeply embedded in a lot of art culture (especially when discussing artisans or petit bourgeoise artists and labor) and on the flip side how art has been undervalued on a societal scale. Hard Qs

Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields

On principle sure but the lack of $ to pay writers is a structural crisis in this field and (usually) not simply a choice by greedy editors Writers need publications for audience, for invaluable editing, and in my field as a means of access to press credentials, screeners, etc

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·14 Mar

@NairYasmin Yeah it’s all very bad. The world of art and criticism isn’t doing much better than the worlds of organizing and geopolitics. We live in hell. We do what we can regardless

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Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.)@NairYasmin·14 Mar

@alexcfields No, I'm just saying: people will literally die in the hellscape you describe. Exhausted and depleted artists and writers, bad art devoid of any real spark. Look at Substack, look at the podcast or art worlds. Doesn't get more materialist than that. People are already dying.

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Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.)@NairYasmin·14 Mar

We're all influencers now.

Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields

Is it better to not have a publication or to have one that doesn’t pay writers but does give them a platform and access to festivals, screenings, etc. I don’t know! Impossible questions

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·14 Mar

@NairYasmin I don’t per se disagree with most of what you’re saying I just think, to be a cheeky Marxist about it, you’re acknowledging only one aspect of the contradiction and not its totality

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Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfields·14 Mar

@NairYasmin Yes, there is more crap than good writing. Yes, conditions get worse and worse. But at the same time much of what is good only exists because of ppl struggling uphill against impossible conditions. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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