Don Hertzfeldt is on YouTube!
Don Hertzfeldt has a new channel on YouTube and has started uploading all his animated shorts, including “Rejected” and episodes of World of Tomorrow! You can see them here. (Via Mx. Fee)
Giant, Tap-Dancing Noses
It’s a scene with giant, tap-dancing noses from the Royal Opera’s production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1928 opera, The Nose. You can watch here. No, really, it’s exactly that–giant, tap-dancing noses and you know you want to see it! (Via Artalogica / Michele Banks & Robin Bobcat on Bluesky).
“Ritual, Transformation & Hybridity”
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity gives a lecture on Leonora Carrington at the 2025 Occulture Conference! “How can ritual and hybridity become tools for transformation and resistance? In this lecture from Occulture Conference 2025, K. A. Laity explores Leonora Carrington’s play Judith as a dramatic ritual of […]
Through the Looking Glass (1976): An Exploration of the Cycle of Trauma
This week’s Guest Star is Michelle Kisner. Keep up with her on Instagram at @robotcookie! ~~~~ Pornography generally has a negative reputation, and it’s fair to say that most modern porn is primarily focused on sexual gratification. However, there are exceptions, as some classic films have successfully integrated […]
Surreal Noir: “Surreal Portraiture”
Now on YouTube–Surreal Noir by friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! In this episode she extensively discusses Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) and Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel. “Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from […]
Murder, Surrealism, Women’s Rage, and Les Abysses
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
The Cultural Gutter 