FfS FfilmSchool.org

An amazing week comes to a close. Thank you to all the FfS conspirators. You’ve been fantastic.

So the embodied carbon in the ink doesn’t count? Why’s that? Because of its (predicted) longevity?

So what makes it GGR or not? (Asking for a friend)

Ffilm School Dyfi gwenwch gals erbyn 30.11.25

Ychydig ddyddiau i wneud cais am FfS-Dyfi! Cyflwynwch erbyn diwedd dydd Sul, Tachwedd 30ain.

Cyfweliad awtomatig os oes gennych gysylltiad cryf â'r ardal a'ch bod yn:

· O aelwyd incwm isel
· O'r Mwyafrif Byd-eang
· Byddar, anabl neu'n niwroamrywiol
· Cymraeg fel iaith gyntaf

Ffilm School Dyfi poster with black and white bitmapped image of Llyfnant Valley Celtic rainforest, taken by an unknown photographer uploaded to lostrainforestsofbritain.org. Apply by Sunday 30th November

Last few days to apply for FfS-Dyfi!

Automatic interview if you’re strongly connected to the Dyfi, Rheidol, Ystwyth & you identify as one or more of:

• living in a low-income, low-asset household,
• a member of the Global Majority
• d/Deaf, disabled or Neurodivergent
• Welsh as first language

Reminder: just a few days left to apply for a place on the Ffilm School programme! Submit your application by 30 Nov: ffilmschool.org/home/. @iagoaprhys.bsky.social @ffilmschool.bsky.social @ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social @smithschool.ox.ac.uk @undaunted-hq.bsky.social

Cheers for reposting @bertrussell.bsky.social! I’m looking forward to seeing @kmilb.bsky.social presenting Radical Abundance tonight with @majorityuk.bsky.social Newcastle upon Tyne

Repeated and mirrored grayscale image of Celtic rainforest in the Llyfnant valley, Cymru by untraced photographer source lostrainforestsofbritain.org FfilmSchool logo and apply online by 30.11.25

FfS-Dyfi: Filmmaking for a Flourishing Future 🌱

6 PAID places to (re)learn doc filmmaking centring future wellbeing.
For people connected to the Dyfi, Rheidol & Ystwyth watersheds.
Apply by 30.11.25 → FfilmSchool.org

FfS: we can make film better.
@ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social @co2rehub.bsky.social

Gwnewch gais ar-lein erbyn 30.11.25

FfS-Dyfi: Ffilmio ar gyfer Dyfodol Llesol 🌱
6 lle TALW i ail-ddysgu ffilm dogfen gan ganolbwyntio ar les y dyfodol.
I bobl sydd â chysylltiad â dyffrynnoedd Dyfi, Rheidol & Ystwyth.
Ceisiwch tan 30.11.25→ FfilmSchool.org
FfS: gallwn wneud ffilm yn well.

@ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social @co2rehub.bsky.social

Applications are open for @ffilmschool.bsky.social! FfS-Dyfi: Filmmaking for a Flourishing Future 🌱6 PAID places to (re)learn doc filmmaking centring future wellbeing. For people connected to the Dyfi, Rheidol & Ystwyth watersheds. Apply by 30.11.25 → FfilmSchool.org

Thaflenni FfilmSchool fliers yn / at Sploj, Machynlleth

a thaflenni FfilmSchool!

and FfilmSchool fliers!

FfilmSchool yn / in Sploj Machynlleth

Posteri FfilmSchool yn mynd i fyny ledled ardal Dyfi!

FfilmSchool posters going up all over the Dyfi area!

I found possibly my worst ever example of a obliterated public footpath today at Cerrig-tranau-uchaf by the Dyfi floodplain. Signs gone, barbed wire, overgrown brambles and a bridge reduced to a steel bar!

llun POV o goesau a trainers rhedeg yn symud yn ofalus ar draws bar dur dros ffos ddraenio. POV image of legs and running shoes edging across a steel bar over a drainage ditch

Mieri trwchus lle mae llwybr cyhoeddus wedi’i farcio. Thick brambles where a public footpath is marked

Ordnance Survey Explorer map showing the public footpath which has been obliterated. Map Explorer yr Ordnance Survey yn dangos y llwybr cyhoeddus sydd wedi’i ddinistrio.

@righttoroam.bsky.social Des i ar draws, efallai, yr enghraifft waethaf erioed o lwybr cyhoeddus wedi’i ddinistrio heddiw yn Cerrig-tranau-uchaf ger cors Dyfi. Dim arwyddion, gwifren bigog, mieri wedi tyfu’n wyllt, a phont wedi’i lleihau i far dur yn unig! [English follows]

On my way to FfS’s Dyfi home. A stop at Rhug for an overpriced snack. There are pictures of Charles and Camilla in 2013 suspiciously receiving a bouquet. Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. Quite a statement of colonial domination that - Cymru and Kernow, handled by the next Anglo in line.

Very excited to have made a major infrastructural move for FfS today. A secondhand (of course) @frame.work laptop running @mxlinux.bsky.social and @kdenlive.bsky.social

A major step towards the anti-extractivist Ffilm School. Freedom from Adobe, Apple and Avid. 1/

6/* I’m interested in talking through these tensions. If a creative commons of film and a post-extractivist filmmaking economy is the aim, how do we navigate getting there?

5/* there is also the question of the right to refuse use of your knowledges (rushes). Non-commercial restrictions don’t prevent extractivist colonising purposes.

4/* talking with @paulakahumbu.bsky.social at the 2023 @bectu.bsky.social Autumn Gathering she spoke of her frustration, as a maker of African-led nature documentaries, that the non-commercial restrictions inhibited the possibility of a successful indigenous filmmaking, keeping the power in the UK

3/* you can see that by doing this you build a non-capitalist filmmaking ecology. However, while this prefigures a (from our perspective) desirable post-extractivist filmmaking economy, the restriction to be non-profit makes it difficult to exist in the world as it is.

2/* And that this would be done on a non-commercial and share-alike basis (meaning whatever is made is made available on the same terms - the film it is used in can also not be used in for-profit filmmaking). This is an anti-capitalist position.

1/* There are unresolved tensions we identify in Creative Commons. FfS holds as an ideal that all rushes would end up in an open access commons which filmmakers could browse and braid into new films.

Discover world-class footage of our changing planet. Open Planet is a global library of high-quality climate and nature footage. It is free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.

Another example of Creative Commons archive openplanet.org again on a non-commercial basis.

BBC Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects

The lowest impact form of filmmaking is reuse. ♻️ Imagine a filmmaking ecology where all rushes entered the Creative Commons. Here’s a start: sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk Available on a by attribution non-commercial licence.

Thank you NSotA cymrawd! Website soon to be updated. FfS soon to be launched recruiting for 6 PAID participants - residential phase August 15-30. Solidarity!

Leaves emerging from the uppermost buds of an English elm, silhouetted against the sky and against the scrubby fringes of Heartswood, a new forest generated from arable farmland in Hertfordshire. The elm is still young, planted in 2014 as a sapling. Greyscale.

In 2014 my family and I planted a host of trees in Heartwood forest, north of St Albans, to mark what would have been my elder brother Edward’s 40th birthday. Two of the trees were from the survivor English elms, Castle Acre and Pottersbury, ancestrial homes of each side of the family. They live.

Gaia Hypothesis : NASA : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Professor Lynn Margulis of Boston University speaks before an audience of NASA employees in 1984 to explain the gaia hypothesis. This 30 minute video was...

The gasses of the exoplanet lead me to Lynn Margulis. Here’s a tasty 1984 video… archive.org/details/gaia...

FfS founder james r price wins in the #BAFTSS 2025 awards. If theory is your thing, this article stands with the anti-extractivist principles underlying FfS. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/18261...

Customs in common : E. P. Thompson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

That is, an ontology of land as private property. He recommends E P Thompson’s ‘Customs in Common’ 1991 for further reading. archive.org/details/cust...