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  • 1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Joanne McNeil

    Back to selection by Holly Willis by Joanne McNeil in Columns on Jun 18, 2025 EZTV, ia Kamandalu, Michael Masucci, Summer 2025 In 1986, ia Kamandalu showed up at the EZTV space in West Hollywood for a screening of video art by Doris Chase. People recognized her even though it had been a few years since she danced in music videos like “Super Freak” by Rick James and on variety shows like Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, performing at the time under the name KimMcKillip.

  • Dec 18, 2024 | niemanlab.org | Joanne McNeil

    Over the past decade (often in this annual roundup!), we’ve heard a lot about journalist-influencers and journalists who go independent through services like Patreon and Substack. But we seldom hear about the people reading these independent newsletters or listening to these podcasts or viewing journalistic social media content. My prediction is that many of these followers are going to switch up their media habits in 2025.

  • Dec 15, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Joanne McNeil

    by Joanne McNeil in Columns, Issues on Dec 16, 2024 Bluesky, Twitter, Winter 2025, X If you are a filmmaker, journalist, artist or someone else who creates work for an audience, most likely you’ve used social media to share it. Self-promotion is never fun, but it’s felt especially inconsistent (if not totally hopeless) ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, renamed it X and began throttling views to posts that include links.

  • Sep 18, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Joanne McNeil

    Back to selectionby Joanne McNeil in Columns, Columns, Issueson Sep 18, 2024 Academy Museum, Summer 2024 This year is the 40th anniversary of William Gibson’s classic novel Neuromancer. It’s a work of singular brilliance that arrived as part of a new vanguard.

  • Jun 27, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Joanne McNeil

    Bill Shaner at Rewind Videos and More (photo by Christine Peterson) by Joanne McNeil in Columns, Issues on Jun 27, 2024 Bill Shaner, Rewind Videos and More, Summer 2024 Imagine you are in the basement of a home somewhere in the suburbs amid towers of cardboard boxes and items bought in bulk. There are bikes with training wheels and cobwebs between the spokes. Behind a broken recliner is a fake Christmas tree with garland and fairy lights still on it.

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6 Jun 25

RT @GBHArchives: Happy National Donut Day. Scenes from Supreme Coffee and Donuts in Brockton, MA seen in 1986 or thereabouts. https://t.co/…

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5 Jun 25

RT @jomc: No other writer has influenced me like JG Ballard. Years ago I read everything I could find and it forever changed the way I thin…

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joanne mcneil @jomc
5 Jun 25

RT @the_point_mag: On the latest episode of Selected Novels, @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine talk to @jomc about J.G. Ballard’s “Concrete Island…