Atticus Review is proud to present the second installment of Nathan Holic’s comic series adaptation of Fight for Your Long Day, the novel by Alex Kudera. We’ll be sharing a new episode each month and hope you’ll check in to watch as the series unfolds. Continue Reading
Exit Strategies (No. IV-VI)
by Swoon and David Tomaloff
Swoon on the Exit Strategies Videopoems
I worked with David Tomaloff before on other projects, and I loved his poetry and his style. Continue Reading
A Trailer by the King of Premakes
Ivan Guerrero is a young filmmaker of incredible talent. Best known around the web for his “Premakes,” a term he coined for his reimagined trailers of popular contemporary films created from a mash-up of clips from older movies Continue Reading
Exit Strategies (No. I-III)
by Swoon and David Tomaloff
Swoon on the Exit Strategies Videopoems
I worked with David Tomaloff before on other projects, and I loved his poetry and his style. I asked him if he was interested in doing a videopoem-chapbook, and he gave me a link to Exit Strategies, Continue Reading
Profile
Artist’s Statement: There are several stories behind this film poem. Let’s start with its genesis. A friend had looked over some of my past written works, then started comparing it to my new films. He made an observation: Much of my older written work could be considered stream of consciousness, so I should try to implement that style in some of my film poems. Continue Reading
Where Sins Are More Sinful
By Swoon and Heather Haley
Swoon’s Artist’s Statement: The text/voice of the poem comes from Canadian poet, musician and filmmaker Heather Haley. The poem appears on her first spoken-word album, Surfing Season, which Heather sent to me after we wrote to each other about a possible collaboration. I picked out “Where Sins Are More Sinful” because it was the first poem that ‘gave me images’ right away. Continue Reading
Boo Radley’s Back Pages
May 15, 1856: The would-be birthday of American author L. Frank Baum, the wonderful wizard behind Oz.
"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
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