Logs

In keeping with the work I do curating and facilitating screenings and discussions, I primarily enjoy thinking through, beyond and across films. These logs span film, texts, and online ephemera across my research interests.

de-googling

PROCESS STARTED -> circa 2020, following an obsession with getting into private trackers, vpns, port forwarding, and seeding. 2021/22 i built a static website in HTML and CSS. 2022/23 i was writing an essay for my MA about undersea cables, data centres, satellites and the entanglement of capital-nation-state. in 2023 i was researching and researching for IMPAKT Festival.

LOG STARTED -> June 2026

REPORT SO FAR -> June 2026, migrating email.

resources

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to https://github.com/anitwek/alternatives-to-us?tab=readme-ov-file

de-googling log

SMARTPHONE

2024 - i purchased a google pixel phone, which has the most long-standing support from Lineage OS. i will boot Lineage OS onto the phone in a couple of years. i am not rushing to do this as my banking apps are not yet supported and they are pretty useful!

2026 - i currently use a bunch of apps from fdroid. see: https://keepandroidopen.org/

EMAIL

2026 - i am moving away from primarily using gmail. i have created different email accounts for different purposes, hosted on protonmail and tutamail. i also have a custom domain with purelymail (cheap). later down the line, i will move my custom email domain onto disroot. I’ll retain the gmail account throughout the move. this is a long and tedious administrative task.

WEB DOMAIN

2023 - got my web domain with porkbun to host my simple static website exclusively in html and css.

VPN

2025 - proton vpn is good because it allows port forwarding and they regularly have sales. hosted in EU so subject to more stringent privacy laws, and has a no-logs policy.

WEB HOSTING

2023 - move from krystal to github pages. ideally will set up my own server to host my little static website when i am less itinerant.

PHOTOS

2026 - i’m very very slowly moving away from google photos towards ente.io. right now, i’m just auto backing everything up on ente.

BROWSER

i have been using brave for a long time now after testing out a lot of alternatives to chrome. brave is good because it is chromium based. it runs like chrome.

de-googling film log

thinking about:

  • network infrastructure
  • materiality of the internet
  • social interactions mediated by digital technologies

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online ephemera:

thinking about:

  • enjoying being on the internet

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