EPISODE FIVE [Original air date 24 Nov 21] Episode Five: Noirvember musings include stalkers, loneliness, travel and cows. Well, one cow anyway. This month noir fans watch the whole range of films that fall under that capacious umbrella, often including neo-noir along with the traditional black and white films from the 40s and 50s. *Content cautions for…
Tag: surrealism
Tarot @ Create!
SIGN UP NOW for Mini Tarot Readings by “Arcane Alchemy” artist Kate Laity during this year’s Catskill Winter Solstice event on Saturday, Dec. 21st! @k.a.laity will be offering 3 card/15 min readings in our 2nd floor gallery from 5-8pm – $20 to book a session*SIGN UP HERE* Afterwards, come and join us downstairs for craft-making…
Surreal Noir: Ep16 New Fiction!
Episode Sixteen is now live! New fiction to celebrate #Noirvember and go out with a bang. Or maybe just a hum (you’ll have to listen to the story to figure that one out). Les grands transparents was inspired by a concept of André Breton’s. There are little nods that the cognoscenti will pick up on…
Surreal Noir: Ep3 on YouTube!
Episode Three is now live! Original airdate 22 Sep 21 Episode Three: Traveling – Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith introduces the concept of criss-cross for the perfect murder. As these things always go, it’s not so perfect after all. Highsmith is seldom interested in ‘whodunit’ and instead follows up on what happens next. Traveling…
Surreal Noir: Ep2 on YouTube!
Episode Two is now live! EPISODE TWO Original Audio 25 Aug 21 Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from a picture? What about self-portrait? How do you conjure the image of yourself? How much do you reveal? How much do you…
Surreal Noir: Ep1 on YouTube!
I’m finally in the Noirvember spirit! It’s been a busy time, that’s my excuse. But when I saw that YouTube was now hosting podcasts, I thought it would be the perfect time to hotwire SURREAL NOIR and get back into the rat race. It’s going to take a bit of doing, because I have to…
Be Surreal: The Game
Try my FREE game you can play in any browser — and on a laptop, tablet or phone! Click this: BE SURREAL Do you want to be surreal? Do you find yourself thinking about the immortality of the crab? Do you often play croquet with flamingos? Do your fingers itch to make collages? Or do you simply…
Ripley & Saltburn
I’m off to the EUPop conference soon — my last formal academic conference (probably, maybe–except for pop culture…) — and because I won’t get around to other things before I depart, here’s a peek at my slides for that talk on two related topics (with a bunch of other things [surrealism!] shoehorned in because that’s…
Anaïs Nin by Louis Andriessen
When looking for one thing you often find another: I came across this DVD of a theatre piece I did not know at all from 2010. I have been enamoured of Nin since coming across her diaries as a teenager. All part of the thread of surrealism that runs through my life, from Alice onwards,…
What I’ve Been Reading
Because I have to wait on some things — always irksome — I will quickly (very quickly) mention a few things I’ve been reading so you will not think I am simply lazing around (although some of the books are meant to be exactly that). Also doubtless I will leave out all the research-oriented things…