1993
April - December, 2024
Online
Curated by Anne de Marcken
Published by The 3rd Thing Press
This serial anthology, curated by contemplative filmmaker and autotheorist M Freeman, along with Rana San and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, ran from September 2023 through December 2024. Inspired by Roland Barthes’ idea that “The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance” (Camera Lucida, 1980), each monthly release will include one to three short films and an accompanying critical essay that observes, wonders, speculates and imagines the implications of work that defies easy categorization and resists our impulse to name. This project challenges the page as the domain of literary art and showcases films by Black and Indigenous womxn, other womxn of Color and people with disabilities who create as poets, essayists, hybrid writers, filmmakers, media artists, and interdisciplinary artists. Good Symptom invests fully in the conviction that necessary alternatives to received ideas about authorship, publishing and genre arise from artists who live and work outside the stockade of dominant culture.
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