Grant

@nothingunfinished.bsky.social

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former @tonemadison.bsky.social writer / editor / misc, occasional film programmer, gamer, vegan. in limbo, on the spectrum.

Cover art for Julia Gfrörer's graphic novel, VISION, released in 2020 with Fantagraphics Book. The illustration, on a puce-colored background, renders a bedroom scene; a dresser with an ovular mirror sits against the wall beside a wooden chair and behind the corner of a bed frame. A few garments lay on the floor.
Angled photo of a collection of 13 sealed Blu-rays displayed on a royal blue armchair. From the top left to bottom right, the alphabetically arranged titles include BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, COMPENSATION (1999), THE DELTA, FRESH KILL, HIGH ART, A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966), NIGHT OWL, PLEASE BABY PLEASE, RESURRECTION (2025), The Films of Hisayasu Satō Volume Four, SPEAKING PARTS, WHEN TOMORROW DIES, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?
Screenshot of a cutscene in HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG, when Hornet gazes upon Haunted Bellhart for the first time.
A shot from the 1991 slow-burn erotic mystery LIEBESTRAUM shows the characters of Nick Kaminsky (Kevin Anderson) and Jane Kessler (Pamela Gidley) standing among the scaffolding outside the cast-iron Ralston Building in Elderstown, Illinois. He looks up to the right, while she holds an SLR camera to her right eye and points it towards the screen.
Colorful event flyer for "Our Psychedelic Nature: short films by Emily Pelstring." On the medium blue-colored background, information about the where and when is printed in white text—at Arts + Literature Laboratory on Wednesday, June 10, at 7:00p. Several stills—four in a more vertical orientation and two in landscape orientation—are arranged in a square-like pattern from the filmmaker's trippy animated body of work (A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR x2, HEAD CLEANER, SOMNIUM LAPIDUM, PETAL TO THE METAL, INSECT EXPRESS). A $5 donation is suggested.
Psychedelic still (thumbnail) from A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR, the animated short by Emily Pelstring, shows fluid superimpositions of fiery colors.
Photo of the entryway at Chicago Filmmakers on West Hollywood Avenue in Chicago. Daylight streams in through the windows at the back wall. A medium-size display table with promotional materials sits in front.
Springtime photo at a long shot of a rocky steam cutting through a woodland in Central Pennsylvania. Two figures in the middle ground stop after crossing the water; one smiles and waves back towards the camera and the other looks down and away towards the ground.
Close-up photo of a CD copy of Phillip Golub's 2026 composition / album PARTISAN SHIP sitting upright on a violet-blue chair. The CD cover art features an abstract painting by Mario Layne Fabrizio.
Photo of a sizable audience at Giant Jones Brewing Company sitting and watching a projection of Sergei Eisenstein's STRIKE (1925) centered on a white gallery wall at the center right. Some fluorescent light from the street spills in through the garage door in the background.
Photo at a medium shot shows a lone musician in a red shirt and black pants sitting on a stage playing an alto saxophone. She loops and manipulates melody and timbre using a pedalboard on the stage floor.
A famous still from the psychological art-house drama PERSONA shows a shirtless boy reaching out to touch a woman's face projected on a large screen in front of him.
Drummer and percussionist Dave Schoepke plays an improvised solo set on drums and synthesizer at Common Sage Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 21, 2026.
Light box at the AMC in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, contains a poster for a new telling of DRACULA by Luc Besson
SOULS-focused live-streamer LilAggy attempts to show off a diversion strategy using a "surging frenzied flame" in an ELDEN RING randomizer.
Variety streamer Bawkbasoup learns about the existence of Midwest emo.
Cosmic cover art from Weidorje's 1978 self-titled album.
A hand-drawn landscape by Andrew Swiatkowski on a greeting card is placed upright on a hardwood floor. It rests behind a cassette-case copy of Luke Leavitt's CONCERT IN THE SHELL album, which is oriented vertically.
Video clip of Matt Blair Clearings Quartet playing the jazz-rock piece "Knots, Patches, and Pulses" (tbc) at Audio for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 21, 2025.
Three Four Star Video Rental DVD cases are displayed face up on a chair with their Blu-ray catalog cards: OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH (1972, dir. Jane Arden), HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986, dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi), and GIVE ME PITY (2022, dir. Amanda Kramer).
B/W photo of Mr. Doctor posing in Victorian attire and gothic makeup, circa mid-1990s. He extends his left arm out towards the camera and tilts his head down with a sinister expression.
"Respect, Portland, Chicago and everywhere," writes Rafael Toral in the Bandcamp listening party for TRAVELING LIGHT.
An opened CD edition of Rafael Toral's "jazz covers" album, TRAVELING LIGHT, sitting atop a turntable's dust cover.
Cropped screenshot of the Metacritic page for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER shows an excerpt from the film's first glowing "100" review, written Ty Burr at The Washington Post.
American light box movie poster for Joachim Trier's OSLO, 31 AUGUST (2011)
Physical CD copy of the upcoming Webber/Morris Big Band record, UNSEPARATE, with the street date of September 26, 2025. The cardboard gatefold package sits upright on a royal-blue colored chair.
A stack of promotional baseball cards for the short film, DEUCE, are fanned out on a hardwood floor.
Event flyer art by Blake Barit is dominated by grassy shades of green, with the poster designs for the films DEUCE and EEPHUS towards the center of the image. The event date and time are listed in green text below the posters: "SATURDAY JULY 19th 5:00 pm." White text at the top reads "BASEBALL DOUBLE PLAY !!! THE BARTELL THEATRE." The text at the bottom reads "113 E Mifflin St Madison WI 53703" (the Bartell Theatre address) followed by the ticket price of $10. A triptych of still images from the films are shown above that text but below the event date and time.
Photo from the first row looking up at The Empty Bottle stage. Four band members (of the Fievel Is Glauque septet) perform in washed-out red lighting. Bandleader Zach Phillips sits and plays the keys, Ma Clément stands and sings, Simon Martinez sits at the very back and plays electric guitar, Gaspard Sicx sits and plays drums. Just out of the frame on the right is a fifth member—woodwindist André Sacalxot.
Letterboxd grid view of 10 movie posters that capture my favorite feature-length films of the 21st century. they're presented in alphabetical and not ranked order from the top left: BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), MEEK'S CUTOFF, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, OSLO 31 AUGUST, PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, SAMSARA (2023), THE TASTE OF TEA, UNDER THE SKIN
A ceramic bowl with a blue and white floral pattern contains several sliced local strawberries.
Twitter screenshot of Spin Magazine posting about the "best albums of 2025 (so far)," suggesting that we're six months into the calendar year instead of five.
"A girl meets a goddess." Still image from Jamie Steele Griffiths' 2020 animated short, VENUS. Part of the Mills Folly Microcinema program, screening in Madison on May 21.
Two vinyl LPs in the discography of experimental Australian musician Francis Plagne. On the left, TWO WORDS (2018), a collaboration with musique concrète artist Crys Cole. On the right, the solo endeavor, UDGE (2023). Both records stand upright. The TWO WORDS cover art by Anne Wallace, featuring a pastoral landscape and compact yellow car, overlaps with UDGE's predominantly black cover and impressionistic blue smudging within a smaller white square.
Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) and Angela (Anna Karina) are incredulous, too.
Four vinyl LPs that relate to experimental Australian musician Francis Plagne. TENTH VOLUME OF MAPS (2011), FOOD COURT project (2014, with James Rushford and Joe Talia) stand upright at the top with their sketched-architecture cover art partly overlapping. FUNERAL MUTES (2016) and INTO CLOSED AIR (2023) sit at canted angles on the bottom with their covers face up, also overlapping.
One-sheet from the 2000 premiere of MILK PUNCH. Top right quadrant shows the image of a lighter in the shape of a cowboy boot and passenger side of an old car in the bottom left quadrant. Top of the sheet reads "Pitcher Pictures Presents" followed by the title of the film below it in white text. On the righthand side, pink text reads "a film about: garage sales, skateboard parks, muskie fishing, backyard barbecues, credit card shopping sprees, highways, malt shops, postal worker fashion shows, shoplifting bait, and a 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88."
Poster for Margot Budzyna's outstanding short film, DEUCE, features its young co-stars Arabella Olivia Clark and Lynden Miles Ley in the grass on a summer's day.
The clairvoyant(?) Robert (Nick Corirossi) attempts to impress Rayna (Blu Hunt).
A medium shot captures a woman in a plush red French beret aiming a toy bow-and-arrow at an upward angle off screen.
jdelmonte71 writes, "This is what music is supposed to sound like, kids. Original music and lyrix played and sung (very well) by the band. Real drums (not software or samples) being beat like they owe the drummer $$$. Not 1, but 2 screaming guitars + bass. I drive a rideshare car in AZ rt now & have turned dozens of my riders on to this album, cuz its tasty AF! 20+ yrs since last album & still kicking much ass!!!! *E A R C A N D Y B I T C H E Z*"
Blader and branch
A Bressonian shot of a man and (his) donkey. Hu Bo's 2012 short, TO CÓRDOBA, is a striking miniature template for some of the expressions in AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (2018).
stack of Blu-ray case spines in reverse alphabetical order: WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR, "Totally Wired": Three Films by Nathan Silver, THERAPY DOGS, TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN, EL PLANETA, The Other French New Wave Vol. 1, I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS, BEACH RATS, and ACTUAL PEOPLE
Kathleen (Maria Dizzia) looks down longingly at an illuminated town miniature in CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT.
The nameless Varna boy plays the violin in Herzog's NOSFERATU: PHANTOM DER NACHT.
In the spring grass, filmmaker Gabriella Cisneros sifts through a box of old photos of her mother.
David Jonsson as artificial human Andy in ALIEN: ROMULUS.
Howard/Steve (Ryan O'Neal) and Judy/Burnsy (Barbra Streisand) pensively and longingly pause amid a duet of "As Time Goes By" in WHAT'S UP, DOC? (1972).
Evelyn Davis' 2017 record, THE WIT OF THE STAIR, on physical media for the first time. Vinyl includes a large 12-page booklet of personal artwork and handwritten lyrics.