SCENE 4 Dear Kevin Spacey. This is not a sustainable city; it doesn’t care about the future much. It…
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Ustica by Niki Ford
Burnt island, rocks black — a circle of salt wet beats against the monk’s plough. (But their dark robes dragged…
issue no.2: suburb
The suburb issue of Failed States includes an original fiction by Wayne Koestenbaum; special projects on the Charles Atlas film…
A list of films shot on Fire Island, New York by Sam Ashby
Day Dreams aka Cocktails (Richard Fontaine, 1950) A Day at Fire Island (Young Physique, 1960) Pose Please (Young Physique, 1960)…
Matt Connors
In preparation for a forthcoming studio move, and before leaving for a two week stay in coastal Maine, I started…
Traffic Island by Jeremy Atherton Lin
My earliest memory is of an island in winter, its formidable mountain blanketed with snow. We descended on plastic saucers,…
Doris Ho-Kane
“We were influenced by what was happening in the Black and Puerto Rican communities. Why not us? Who are we?…
Olivia Laing
The lido is an island state, I’ve just decreed that. I’ve got a pass but you can have one too.…
Bryony Quinn
Micronesian stick charts were used by seafarers to cross great distances of water where land sat below the horizon, frequently…
On the subject of creating a film on a remote island by Joseph Curran
Our journey began with a six day sea voyage from Cape Town. Amongst us on the ship there was a…
