Americans Are Scarier Than Alien Invaders in Zach Clark’s Body-Snatching Romance “The Becomers”
Film

Americans Are Scarier Than Alien Invaders in Zach Clark’s Body-Snatching Romance “The Becomers”

Squish. Squish. A couple embraces, their fingers carefully caressing two fleshy gashes in the shape of a carved X. Located on their respective torso flanks, these slashes pucker like keloid scars around a wet red opening as if David Cronenberg designed Jesus’s yoni-ish crucifixion wound. Squick. Squick. The couple’s middle two fingers enter each other’s … Continue reading

Is That You Mo-Dean?: Esther Pearl Watson’s “Guardian of Eden”
Art / Filthy Dreams Bite-Sized

Is That You Mo-Dean?: Esther Pearl Watson’s “Guardian of Eden”

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, dearest Filthy Dreams readers, but I have a tendency to be a little, um, WORDY. Because we all need a break sometimes from my unending (draining) gush of thoughts and because there are shows closing soon still worthy of our attention, I thought we’d try something different: brevity! So … Continue reading

I Want To Believe In Margot Bird’s “Poodle Saga”
Art

I Want To Believe In Margot Bird’s “Poodle Saga”

Recently with our constant free-flowing shit show in American politics, I find myself thinking with surprising frequency: Fuck that shit, I’m going to space. Taken from a prevalent meme featuring a shark flying through the star-lined galaxy, my intergalactic daydreams of escape, star cruising into space never to look back, now have an articulated vision. … Continue reading