Mark Caldwell

Obligatory introductory post. I’m an award winning British cinematographer with 20+ year’s experience, and a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths, London. My website is www.mark-caldwell.com Latest showreel: youtu.be/BmSMCCmIPnc?...

If there are any other Legacy of Kain fans on here, we have a new game coming and a remaster of Defiance. 🥳

I was sweating in 18C in London end of last week, now it’s 1C… I’m sure that’s fine, nothing to worry about here.

Autumn 2025 is here. 🍂🍁

Mr Pumpkin being photogenic as always.

‘Bluesky needs to verify your age because you live in the UK, we’ve partnered with this face scanning company.’ *opens up verifier and gets scanned* ‘Yeah he’s an adult, the light’s gone out in his eyes’ *sigh*

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

🎬 UK film/TV professionals: have you experienced stress or burnout at work? A new study is seeking participants for anonymised interviews. Help shed light on industry wellbeing. Thank you in advance — your voice matters. 🎥🧠💚 #FilmIndustry #TVIndustry #Wellbeing #CreativeIndustries #UKFilm

if you need a non-binary pansexual to write any pride pieces (paid only, I'm poor), holla at ya person please

🎬 UK film/TV professionals: have you experienced stress or burnout at work? A new study is seeking participants for anonymised interviews. Help shed light on industry wellbeing. Thank you in advance — your voice matters. 🎥🧠💚 #FilmIndustry #TVIndustry #Wellbeing #CreativeIndustries #UKFilm

An open letter for film and TV professionals to sign regarding the latest ruling on trans people, please sign! 🎥 🏳️‍⚧️ 🎬

My amazing wife is doing a charity run to raise money for Not A Phase, a trans-led charity committed to uplifting the lives of trans+ adults in the UK. 🏳️‍⚧️ Please consider donating or just sharing this post, thank you! CC @editorialcat.bsky.social

Finally got around to watching ‘Conclave’, absolutely sublime from start to finish, everyone should watch it and it should have won more Oscars.

My amazing wife is doing a charity run to raise money for Not A Phase, a trans-led charity committed to uplifting the lives of trans+ adults in the UK. 🏳️‍⚧️ Please consider donating or just sharing this post, thank you! CC @editorialcat.bsky.social

Cherry Blossom 2025

Racism and homophobia once had the backing of laws and institutions. That didn’t make them right. Bigots were wrong then—and they’re still wrong now. Society will outgrow these transphobic ones too.

Goldsmiths, UoL, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance. Deadline: 25th April 2025

Playing around in IKEA.

Spring 2025, Piccadilly, London. #spring #spring2025 #london

“…British academia still can’t get its head around the idea that the US is now an enemy, not an ally…” UK & EU institutions need to be making space for US academics getting out of America.

The streaming wars are ongoing still.

We’re not diagnosing enough. Getting a diagnosis is a serious challenge, and just because someone doesn’t know they have a health condition, doesn’t mean they aren’t struggling.

I had missed the launch of Flashes, an Instagram style version of Bluesky.

We surpassed the 80k download mark on wednesday. 🚀 What a first week! 😂 To celebrate I’ll throw out a new update in the coming days that will give you more customization options for your profile.

Spring is kinda getting there in London. 🌸

Does this mean Americans will have to start spelling everything correctly? 😘🇬🇧

Interesting evening at BAFTA talking about the current state of the UK film/TV/games industry. It’s all in a bad place right now obviously so diversification is needed at all levels. Still not sure about ‘survive till 25’…

The only species to wipe itself out because it wasn’t profitable to survive.

A good analogy of what the UK government has just done to every Apple user in the UK.

Well this sounds like a very bad idea…

Went to see The Last Showgirl this evening with @editorialcat.bsky.social and it was absolutely superb, casting was brilliant, Pamela Anderson was terrific, as was the cinematography.

A friend is trying to fund their next film, which is challenging even at the best of times let alone these days, so please do take a look! 🎬🎥📽️🎞️

I remember my first A-Level physics lesson, the teacher started it by saying, forget everything you learned at GCSE, it was wrong. You don’t try to teach einsteinian physics to a bunch of 14 year olds.

Please sign this and share the absolute shit out of it. Access to work has a six month waiting list currently Ito even have a consultation and even then, people who should be getting supportive workers are being fobbed off with software and online coaching. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

A Comment article in Nature Medicine argues that clinical research should recruit participants from LGBTQIA+ populations, which requires specific actions and policies to create affirming and welcoming environments. https://go.nature.com/3WILuQi 🧪

‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins

What #films are you looking forward to seeing this year? 🍿🎬 #MovieSky #FilmSky

After I revealed my #ASD / #ADHD status, my appearances on 2 podcasts were inexplicably cancelled, and a contract offer evaporated. All coincidences, I'm sure. If not, what was the worry? That I'd run around uncontrollably hooting before insisting on solving complex maths problems in my head?

Unfortunately I’m from Suffolk originally. *sigh*

Legacy of Kain is still one of my favourite game series and mythologies, it seems to be getting a lot of love all of a sudden after years/decades of nothingness. Problem is reviews of some of these companies pushing ‘official’ content seems ropey at best so very unsure about investing.

My film research is funded by the NEH. I might be out of a job soon. If anyone needs a professional film researcher, lmk.

I discovered today that @scottjohnson.zip brought The Instance Podcast, @theinstance.bsky.social, back last year after a 2 year hiatus and I didn’t realise! If you’re a Warcraft player, this was one of my favourite podcasts for the game, highly recommend.

“…US is restricting the sale of the advanced chip technology that powers AI to China…has resulted in AI models that require far less computing power than before” The US has accidentally solved some of the energy demand issues of AI. 😂

Every time I have to mark student psych essays I have to first go through them all and check for AI hallucinations in the references, just as nature intended. We aren't going to make it are we?