September 2023

September 2023

4 Episodes

The SEPTEMBER 2023 EDITION of The 3rd Thing press's inaugural time-based publication features:
• My phone needs to charge so this'll be a little far away ~ 02:40 | Tobi Springer | 2022 | Netherlands
• Results May Vary ~ 04:07 | Tiffany Jiang | 2022 | USA
• Für Lilith / ლილიტს ~ 09:35 | Mariam Elene Gomelauri | 2023 | Tbilisi, Georgia (Sakartvelo)
• According To Sun Ra, None Of Us Are Real ~ 04:38 | Naima Lowe | 2020 | USA
Plus an introductory essay by Good Symptom curators M Freeman, Rana San, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke

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September 2023
  • My phone needs to charge so this'll be a little far away

    Episode 1

    In My phone needs to charge so this'll be a little far away, director, animator, and sound designer, Tobi Springer, pairs conversational interview snippets and personal essay with an improvised, lulling piano score and evocative hand-drawn, reflexive animation. Fleeting in ordinary time and everl...

  • Results May Vary

    Episode 2

    In a deft assemblage of deteriorating found footage, the nostalgia of a scratchy old record, and a kind of fragmented lyric essay rendered in text-on-screen, Brooklyn-based, second-generation Chinese American filmmaker, Tiffany Jiang, questions the reliability of family history and photo albums, ...

  • Für Lilith / ლილიტს

    Episode 3

    This is how I started to understand myself through hate speech, Georgian filmmaker, Mariam Elene Gomelauri tells us halfway through the disarmingly self-aware, Für Lilith / ლილიტს, a reexamination of Gomelauri’s gender-identity formation in the conservative, post-Soviet Republic of Georgia. Turni...

  • According to Sun Ra, None of Us are Real

    Episode 4

    Naima Lowe disrupts conventional notions of the biopic in this genre-nonconforming piece centering the mundane queerness of legendary Sun Ra—the prototype Afrofuturist and hugely influential jazz musician. Using improvisational strategies rooted in alchemic survival practices known as Black cultu...

  • SEPTEMBER 2023 EXTRA: Curatorial Essay, "And so we begin" (pdf)

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    "And so we begin." A note and marginalia from the GOOD SYMPTOM curators, M Freeman, Rana San and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke

  • Good Symptom Land Acknowledgment (pdf)

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    The 3rd Thing is located at the southern tip of the Salish Sea on the traditional, unceded land of the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes, among them, the Nisqually, Squaxin and Stehchass peoples. As part of our work to create a culture of intimacy, accountability and radical imagination, we acknowledg...