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A dream of many years has come true: I had a hand in curating this programme on Serge Daney for the ICA, in conjunction with the dossier we produced on SD with @Sabzianbe

Excited for this! @_rtab_ has put together an incredible season

@swen_ryan Thank you!!

Happy birthday @_rtab_!!

The ‘Not By Lynch’ season (curated by @_rtab_ ) continues next week at The Cinema Museum with a screening of Carnival of Souls 🎡 + intro from the wonderful @Cursed__Tea 🎪

I wrote about Omar Mismar's documentary, A Frown Gone Mad, for the March 2026 issue of Art Monthly UK. artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/…

I was invited to write an accompanying essay for the @ICALondon retrospective of Isiah Medina. ica.art/media/12798.pdf

NOT BY LYNCH continues on Saturday 7 February at @CinemaMuseum with Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) — a ferocious, end-of-the-line noir that turns pulp detective fiction into something radioactive and uncanny. Tix: ticketlab.app/event/36373#/ 🎟️

I wrote about Amir Naderi and Bahram Beyzaie, and two fundamental tendencies of Iranian cinema:

NOT BY LYNCH opens next Friday, Jan 16 at The Cinema Museum, with Fritz Lang’s Secret Beyond the Door (1947) ticketlab.app/event/36546#/ The screening will be introduced by programme curator @_rtab_ , accompanied by a new essay on the film by critic @alonsoaguilarc .

3 Songs That Got Us Through 2025 We close out the year w/ music recs from our editors & writers. ultradogme.com/2025/12/30/3-s…

RIP Bahram Beyzaei (1938-2025) The Iranian filmmaker and playwright passed on his birthday, Dec 26, at age 87.

@yearzerocinema @JeremyArblaster Programme 16 Jan: Secret Beyond the Door 7 Feb: Kiss Me Deadly 20 Mar: Carnival of Souls 22 Apr: Céline and Julie Go Boating 8 May: The Hidden 12 Jun: Spontaneous Combustion 10 Jul: Corpus Callosum + Sshtoorrty 4 Sept: Under the Silver Lake 23 Oct: Coma

Begins 16 Jan 2026, on the anniversary of Lynch’s passing. Each screening includes an intro + newly commissioned essay by @yearzerocinema. Poster designed by @JeremyArblaster.

NOT BY LYNCH: The Lynchian Before and After David Lynch, Jan–Oct 2026 A nine-film season tracing the Lynchian before, around & after Lynch’s own cinema—dream-logic, the uncanny, unstable identities, worlds that bend at the edges. Curated by me, hosted by @CinemaMuseum.

New artwork for @yearzerocinema ‘s NOT BY LYNCH season at @CinemaMuseum , curated by @_rtab_ ☕️ 📽️🎞️

On @Viennale and Filmmuseum's Epstein retrospective for @InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/12/08/the…

I wrote about Lucrecia Martel's Landmarks for the new issue of @ArtMonthly. artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/…

یه سری خاطره رو چندبار برای شوخی و فان جعل کردم و الان انگار واقعا جزو زندگی‌ام بودن. از اون طرف، یه سری خاطرات واقعی‌ام رو انگار زندگی نکردم. اینکه میگن «گذشته‌ از جنس فیکشنه» واقعا حقیقته.

Favorite first-time viewings of November 2025: The Wild Palms (2025) Life of Oharu (1952) Zorns Lemma (1970) Spring in a Small Town (1948) Study of a River (1997)

Favorite first-time viewings of October 2025: The House of Mirth (2000) The Travelling Players (1974) Spontaneous Combustion (1989) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Le Tempestaire (1947)