IN PRAISE OF TRASH-STRATUM INITIATION

October, hello! Welcome back, welcome. You kitschweird diamond, you! Withoutadoubt, the most surrealist of all our months. Smileyface. And we love it too, we really do. That special spectral time-of-year, October—when the ol’ veil-between-worlds is at her honeycomb’ed thinest. (& getting thinner each year, too…!) I speak of that bluest of veils, that one between [...]

2020-09-26T08:12:40+00:00September 26th, 2020|Essay|

Closet Games

Times of tumult call for tumultuous imaginations. There is a wonderful germ lurking in the 19th century romantic genre of “closet drama”. The term is usually applied to an unhinged dramatic production by some radical poet, so vast or unusual in concept, and so beyond the realm of possibility, as to be unstageable. Could this [...]

2020-09-23T11:59:12+00:00September 15th, 2020|Essay, Games|

Dream Films & Irrational Rituals

Two short surrealist inquiries recently posted online. DREAM FILMS INQUIRY Do you have any memories of strange lost films from your childhood? Films which may have been real or may have been dreamed, or perhaps were combination of both? Casi Cline: First Scene: A young apprentice prostitute in a white nightgown is laying on a [...]

2020-08-14T16:20:08+00:00August 3rd, 2020|Inquiry|

Too Many Captain Cooks

(A Game from Anthony Redmond) “Too many Captain Cooks” -Rembarrnga man, Paddy Wainburrangga In 2020, as colonial Australia commemorates its founding myth on the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Capt. James Cook’s death ships along the eastern seaboard of Australia and New Zealand, a global revolt is erupting against state violence in settler colonies. [...]

2020-08-10T18:57:10+00:00July 18th, 2020|Games|

Lucio Fulci’s CONQUEST

“In a place beyond time, comes a terrifying challenge beyond imagination!” “Conquest" (1983) is a celluloid spirit who was birthed (apparently) from inside some still-uncharted void, a lost Surspace where both time and the imagination have been thoroughly transcended. (At least, if its marketing tagline is to be believed) This possibly facetious origin story may perhaps [...]

2020-07-12T20:12:06+00:00July 12th, 2020|Essay|
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