Tanya Goldman (@tanyagoldman.bsky.social)

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:35 PM

I'm always cautious about "the first" narratives but this new research is so intriguing! Did the first talkie actually come from Scotland in 1926?!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:26 PM

To celebrate the @femmediahist.bsky.social "Women of IMAX" issue, scholars Janine Marchessault, Jessica Mulvogue, Allison Whitney + artist Oliver Husain are leading a virtual panel discussion with Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar on October 24. I'm excited to listen in!

rmg.on.ca/events/imax-...

TALKS & TOURS

IMAX Panel Discussion with Canadian Astronaut Roberta Bondar
Oct 24, 2026, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us for a virtual panel discussion on the history and future of IMAX cinema with special guest, astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar. Dr Bondar will share her experiences with IMAX filmmaking in space, and how it continues to influence her work as a photographer and environmental advocate. Our panel will consist of scholars Janine Marchessault, Jessica Mulvogue, Allison Whitney, and artist Oliver Husain, whose exhibition I <3 Snail, on display at the gallery, draws on similar themes to the panel.

This event will also mark the publication of a special issue of the journal Feminist Media Histories on “Women of IMAX,” which investigates the transformative work of women as film directors, producers, museum managers, technical writers, and computing experts in the medium’s nearly fifty-year history.

This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Hannah at hkeating@rmg.on.ca.

Registration is required.

https://rmg.on.ca/events/imax-panel-discussion-with-canadian-astronaut-roberta-bondar/

@feminaridens.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:01 PMReposted by @tanyagoldman.bsky.social

getting @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social
zine in the mail made my week!! if you read his (essential) substack you know his deeply researched & beautifully observed writing on animation

his new zine on 1930/1931 american animation captures a medium in its infancy. an enormous task & a treasure to behold ❤️

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:10 PM

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@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:10 PM

Had the pleasure of collaborating w/ Allison Whitney, Jessica Mulvogue, and other contributors to the new @femmediahist.bsky.social special issue on "Women of IMAX" to create a zine of 11 career profiles based on their research. Can't wait to get physical copies!

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Image specs of IMAX technology in blue overlayed with pattern (yellow outlined vertical text reading "IMAX)

WOMEN OF IMAX title in large white letters

Blue and yellow imagery of IMAX schematics overlaid with black tesxt that reads:

Women of IMAX offers a glimpse into the range of women’s engagement with IMAX cinema from its invention to the present day, featuring research contributions from Monika Gagnon, Janine Marchessault, Jessica Mulvogue, Veronica Paredes, and Allison Whitney. We were inspired by the creativity and insights of Tanya Goldman’s Women of the 16mm Sector zine series, and were thrilled when she and designer John Munshour agreed to work with us on this project.

Sources for this research include archival materials from Library and Archives Canada, Media Commons at the University of Toronto Libraries, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Science Museum of Minnesota, McGill University Archives, and Ingenium – Canada Science and Technology Museum, and interviews with Roberta Bondar, Diane Carlson, Donna Cox, Mary Jane Dodge, Munro Ferguson, Ingrid Lae, and Cherie Rivers. We have also accessed recorded interviews and oral histories with Althea Douglas, Phyllis and Graeme Ferguson, and Toni Myers.

This project is supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

— Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney, 2026

Two-page spread with text and image description:

Phyllis Ferguson (née Wilson) (1950- 2021) was born in Quetico, Ontario, a status member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation. At 12, she was sent to live with her grandmother, Phyllis Tenniscoe, in Thun-der Bay, where she studied audio-visual broadcasting at Confederation College’s new radio and television program. In 1970, she was hired to assist the location manager of North of Superior, one of the first films shot in IMAX. She then hosted the National Film Board of Canada’s weekly “Challenge for Change” television slot, worked as a CBC radio announcer in Whitehorse, and contributed to an Indigenous community newspaper in Ottawa.
In 1974, she worked as a sound recordist on the IMAX-produced Man Belongs to the Earth (screened at the U.S. Pavillion of Expo ‘74), later returning to tele-vision as a location manager for the Canadian Broad-casting Corporation’s The Fifth Estate and CTV’s W5. Returning to Thunder Bay, she directed her 1977 docu-mentary Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land, a pro bono film addressing the impact of development on Cree and Ojibwa communities and opposing clear-cut-ting. She married her creative partner Graeme Ferguson in 1982, the same year they produced Hail Columbia! which initiated a series of IMAX space films. Among them, she co-produced The Dream is Alive (1985), Blue Planet (1990), Mission to MIR (1997), and co-produced and co-directed Destiny in Space (1994).

Image: Woman standing in front of rocket. Phyllis Ferguson at NASA. Photo: Media Commons Archive, University of Toronto Libraries.

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:29 AM

❤️

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:28 PMReposted by @tanyagoldman.bsky.social

Been working on this event for awhile! Glad it has come together! Thread for registration details (we’ve opened to non-members). I relish talking research methodologies + when it comes to my own research, have been pointedly asked many times: "why should we care about this person*?” soo here we go!

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:30 PM

* my book happens to be centering a male film distributor but this all still stands. Cheers to a great event!

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:28 PM

Been working on this event for awhile! Glad it has come together! Thread for registration details (we’ve opened to non-members). I relish talking research methodologies + when it comes to my own research, have been pointedly asked many times: "why should we care about this person*?” soo here we go!

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 8:40 PM

Oh hello Missouri State University Library display of spooky DVDs! Great selection! #longlivephysicalmedia

@philipleventhal.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:43 AMReposted by @tanyagoldman.bsky.social

With William Greaves's eagerly anticipated *Once Upon a Time in Harlem,* coming this Fall, now is the perfect time to pick up a copy of WILLIAM GREAVES: FILMMAKING AS MISSION, edited by Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart! tinyurl.com/8crh87zf @columbiaup.bsky.social

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:42 PM

Fun! I'll have to give it a listen! DAISIES is always a good time.

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:30 PM

....and it's open access. Link below.

quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image...

...And here are some of the contributors earlier this year at Czech Center NY at a special event celebrating the film. We missed you Maggie and Aurore!

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:23 PM

Happy to share that "Sixty Years of Daisies: Perspectives on Věra Chytilová’s Anarchic Classic" is out now in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social. Essays by @hennefem.bsky.social, @aurspiers.bsky.social, Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen, Barbora Bartunkova, Dijana Jelača + Meta Mazaj, edited by Masha Shpolberg + me.

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:20 PM

JUST ONE?!

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:42 PM

I love her soooo much

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:30 PM

Perfect response

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:16 AM

Ha, nope. I did read that though! I did not like it as much as I wanted too. Expectations too high? I’m listening to a (non-academic) book on Anna May Wong and it is satisfying my general curiosity. (Listened to something in sim vein about Merle Oberon by Mayukh Sen recently that I recommend!)

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:50 AM

Petty complaint: Listening to an audiobook and reader keeps referring to the German studio Ufa as U-F-A and it is driving me crazy.

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 2:30 AM

I’m still riding the ODYSSEY discourse high! 🤣