A frame from “Ecstasy in Entropy,” a film by Nick Zedd.
Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd (2001) -
A frame from “Ecstasy in Entropy,” a film by Nick Zedd.
“Any film that doesn’t shock isn’t worth looking at,” Nick Zedd wrote in the Cinema of Trangression Manifesto. Are Zedd’s…
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The Atlantic Monthly used to run a column called “Word Fugitives,” where writers and readers would come together to find or create words describing something or other, often an idea or feeling…
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1.
In the empty time
from which come no songs, no gods
not even stories
2.
The spider-ghosts move
not-dead and not-living things
hanging from the stars
3.
Pools of ink and light
Frozen yellow boxed-in flames
Eye-squares square the sky
4.
Spider-ghost returns
taking on the forms of gods
threads through spinning eyes
5.
The edges devour
the center of the painting
leaving a finger.
6.
Bone-cloud-covered skies
dogs run, eyes open, teeth bared
voices bleeding rage.
7.
Pools of ink and light
cloud-colored cloth wrapping up
that best left unseen.
8.
Dry leaf skeletons
Skitter circles over stones
then return to sleep.
9.
Orange cylinders
ovals, circles in pastel
seven years gone by.
10.
A voice’s echo
flying through the tunnel, fades
into the shadows.
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist