Heksenkeuken I: The Witches’ Sabbath (1916) by Lizzy Ansingh.
• A trailer for The Ice Tower, a new feature film by Lucile Hadžihalilović. Good to see the Hadžihalilović brand of weirdness being supported once again, but then they do things differently in France. Charlie Kaufman was complaining this week that nobody in Hollywood will fund his films. Maybe he should look elsewhere?
• Dreaming of Shadow and Smoke: Jim Rockhill talks to John Kenny about the enduring influence of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s stories of the supernatural. Rockhill’s latest book is A Mind Turned in Upon Itself, a collection of writings about Le Fanu published by Swan River Press. I designed the exterior of this volume which I’ll be discussing at a later date.
• “Eerie strangeness is abroad, sometimes beautiful, much more often menacing.” Derek Turner reviews Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, a novella by Rebecca Gransden. The book is published by Tangerine Press. I recommend it most highly.
• At Public Domain Review: Ivan Aivazovsky’s miniature seascapes (c.1887), which the artist painted into small photographs of himself at work.
• At The Wire: Against The Grain: Mattie Colquhoun on Mark Fisher’s cultural pessimism.
• At the BFI: Miriam Balanescu chooses 10 great mockumentary films.
• Winners and finalists of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: Galerie Dennis Cooper presents…Emma Kunz.
• New music: Magnetism by Kali Malone and Drew McDowall.
• Mix of the week: Bleep Mix 308 by DJ Food.
• Daveed Diggs’ favourite albums.
• Magnetic Dwarf Reptile (1977) by Chrome | Magnetic North (1998) by Skyray | Feed Me Magnetic Rain (2018) by Cavern Of Anti-Matter
