atrocity exhibition

carol. 29. letterboxd. per noctem in nihilo vehi.

[rylandsgrace]

First look at The Vampire Lestat (2026)

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[talestalesof]

The artist who creates silence or emptiness must produce something dialectical: a full void, an enriching emptiness, a resonating or eloquent silence. Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech

Susan Sontag, The Aesthetics of Silence

[vampurrring]

[bluebeardsbride-deactivated2021]

— María Negroni, ‘The Exemplary Theater of Sadness’ Dark Museum (translated by Michelle Gil-Montero)

[filmgifs]

You took one of your word problems with leaking taps, and tanks that fill up and empty, and you planned a murder from it. In real life, this kind of thing does not exist. Taps that you open while closing another. Bathtubs that fill up, and swimming pools that empty. That's insane! And I was insane to listen to you!

DIABOLIQUE | LES DIABOLIQUES 1955, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

[soncomplex]

Mal Fawzy

[genesisthreetwenty]

it is november again which means i am feeling nothing and i am feeling everything

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Clarice Lispector by Paulo Gurgel Valente

[bebs-art-gallery]

Dead Lamb by Kristina Kikhno

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[slayerbuffy]

The Watermelon Woman 1996 | dir. Cheryl Dunye

[diana-andraste]

From the Una vida surrealista series, Leonora Carrington, c. 1995

Etching and aquatint in sepia

[jeanrollins]

Les deux orphelines vampires (1997)

[watchoutforintellect]

“But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It’s a mystery. Always startled to find I’ve survived.”

— John Steinbeck, from Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[cinemaorlure]

Je Tu Il Elle, Chantal Akerman (1974)

[random-brushstrokes]

John Singer Sargent - Study of a Sleeping Figure for "David in Saul's Camp" (ca. 1895 - 1900)