Budgets of Blood: How Splatter Propels a World of No-Budget Filmmaking

For every successful foray into Hollywood there’s 100 cash-strapped nightmares making use of ingenuity and offal. The rogue visionaries with a passion for film so strong that no empty pocket could ever prevent them from sharing their goopy artistry.

Review: Considerations

In the grand Oulipo tradition, Considerations sees Montreal’s Fortner Anderson undertake a constrained writing project: 1,000 numbered sentences, each with only one verb. Treat it like a daily Far Side calendar, serving yourself to a gag or observation when you feel like it.

No Cure In Sight: Grant Ionatán on COVID, Isolation, Disability and Against Forgetting It.

A lifetime of alienation from my peers and reluctant obsession with death had turned me into some kind of stoic mutant, able to see in the metaphorical dark. It felt good to say that I had been preparing for this my whole life, whether or not it was true.

Folio: Bridget Moser on the Uncanny and that Skeleton with Hair

Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Bridget Moser about the uncanny, the unsettling, ‘cursed images’ and a hair covered skeleton of her creation that got under people’s skin.

Introducing Our 2023 Winter Issue: Your Own Personal Joker

Vera Drew has gone through many transformations in her life, no vat of acid required. The filmmaker fought to create The People’s Joker and continues to fight to bring the people their Joker.

Call for Submissions: MUCHACHA FANZINE #19

Submissions “Free Our Mamas” is looking for submissions from BIPOC (including currently and formerly incarcerated mothers of colour), related […]

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Review: New Mythologies

The stories in Kym Cunningham’s poems literally grow from women’s bodies. It takes time to connect, to unpack the rearranged speech and to try and find meaning that goes beyond the surface stories.

Review: Remnants

Céline Huyghebaert’s latest work, translated by Aleshia Jensen, explores the gap left by the death of her father. A melange of form informs the process of understanding the author and her father.