Haunted In Exile: An Interview with Vi Khi Nao
Katy Mongeau11.07.16
Katy Mongeau and Vi Khi Nao discuss love, abuse, and the oceanic world of her latest novel, Fish in Exile.
You Can Do That With Anything: An Interview with Dominic Rodriguez about Fursonas
Paul Cunningham11.01.16
Paul Cunningham spoke with filmmaker Dominic Rodriquez about his debut documentary, Fursonas, which provides a complex, controversial inside look at the personal lives of furries in search of what being a furry really means.
Giant Impacted Feces Meets Six Feet Under in the City of Brotherly Love: A Visit to the Mütter Museum
Fortunato Salazar10.31.16
In honor of Halloween, Fortunato Salazar hits up the Mütter Museum in Philly for a tour of skulls, feces, frailty, and so much more, including a detour into the Six Feet Under Convention.
Nu-Metal Can Decay: In Conversation with Theodore Darst
Ed Steck10.25.16
Filmmaker Theodore Darst in conversation over his new video, THE TOURIST – a bad neighborhood, taking on infinity, horror, environments, nu-metal, rioting, and Woodstock ’99.
Under The Skeleton Tree: On Nick Cave and Decay
Jaime Fountaine10.24.16
Jaime Fountaine explores the grief, decay, and loss in Nick Cave’s movie, One More Time With Feeling, and latest album, The Skeleton Tree.
You Gotta Be Careful About That: An Interview with Donald Ray Pollock
Nicholas Rys10.18.16
Donald Ray Pollock in conversation with Nicholas Rys about finding a career writing while working at a paper mill, the contemporary reception of Southern fiction, TV writing, and his latest novel, The Heavenly Table.
Walking a spiral, a loop approaching a star: On Limits and POV in Film
Ella Longpre10.17.16
Ella Longpre takes a look at the function of repetition and POV in Antonioni’s Red Desert and Wenders’ Paris, Texas, finding further intersections in texts by Sontag and Sebald.
In Search of Duende: Language In His Own Hands: Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker The Berry”
August Evans10.11.16
A mouth, open to its widest, prepares for ancestral possession. August Evans considers duende as a potent force in Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry.”
Watching to Score
Anonymous10.10.16
Insights from a vintage watch collector on the thrill of the hunt in the eBay era and how the minutiae of an obsession can redefine the margins of your life.
Getting Back To Your Own Hand: An Interview With Ann Hamilton
Sarah Rose Etter10.04.16
The artist opens up about her latest installation, habitus, process, and spending your whole life returning to your own hand.