Former lab/gallery, now publishing limited edition photo books, art catalogs and the odd narrative tome. We revel in the uncommon, esoteric & provocative.
Had this wild idea for a groundbreaking new cinematic format—
It’s called Horizontals.
You shoot traditionally, not vertically. And people watch your film or tv show… wait for it—
On a tv or theater screen. Or you turn your phone sideways and view in landscape/widescreen🤯
"You are doing always the same thing every day, but every day is a little bit different, and the life is just getting weaker and weaker, and, by the end, disappears. This is what 'The Turin Horse' (2011) shows you."
--- Béla Tarr
I wrote an essay about how a book of mine was pulled from publication at the last moment by an indie press after they received an unfounded, hostile email from someone having a severe mental health crisis.
The essay is not only a personal story of professional upheaval. It speaks to the broader issues indie writers face when working with small publishers: the lack of formal protections, the imbalance of emotional labor, and the ways unfounded fear can mess up an author's path. The frustrating structures that many writers must navigate, when "crazy writers" like myself end up being more professional than the professionals in the equation.
Thank you so much @vol1brooklyn for giving this a home. This hasn't been the easiest thing to write about.
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Gein is the mid-20th-century personification of 21st-century social media, the erotic, the violent, and the domestic fused into one horrifying montage.
https://t.co/ZYgJU8PIYW
"Blue Film" is an indie drama about a camboy who reconnects with a former high school teacher who was fired for sexually assaulting a student.
Despite receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews at last summer's Edinburgh International Film Festival, director Elliot Tuttle has since faced 10 rejections in a row, including hard passes from indie bastions like Sundance and SXSW.
"A lot of the feedback that we got behind the scenes was that it was very polarizing, and it seemed like the powers that be were scared of the movie,” Tuttle says. “It was unbelievable to me. I believe in the quality of the film, and I also had a hard time believing American festivals were this risk-averse."
Read more here: https://t.co/pHUooviP19
I don’t know about you, but I prefer my father to stay dead. To remain in the stillness of memory and photograph, where absence and presence coexist. https://t.co/kKNRM9aubE