Laura Paul

In Total Art, Laura Paul wrestles with issues of art and violence in a book-length meditation spanning the mediums of painting, photography, movies, music, and more, at Lavender Ink / Diálogos Inspired by the term Gesamtkunstwerk, the unification of multiple arts for one expressive aim, Laura Paul, in Total Art, pushes the limits of what it means to let art, or love, consume all of life unt...

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✴️ TOTAL ART ✴️ A book against violence ✴️ Available this November from @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social ✴️ “All Harm Is Self Harm” ✴️

check it out: flyer i made for an Iowa City reading in which i am partaking.. 2 weeks from today—book launch for
@vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤

A section of the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s bookstore, with 9 books shelved face-out

pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏

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Laura Paul Throughout the book, I mention harm that has occurred in and around film sets in the name of art. Workers are hurt or killed, sacrificed for the sake of the end product, which is the moving image. One...

"Death punctuates and punctures. It’s the ultimate period, the last sprocket hole. I’ve tried to show that viscerally. I’ve tried to show the hole; I’ve tried to point to the absence, the black, the end."
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...

📚 14. FILM ELEGY by Laura Paul. Poems, cleverly presented in the visual ratio of the cinematic image, floating in darkness. "The dimensions of a cremation . / A flicker | burning up the frame*****"

Los Angeles! Next week! Catch me reading, signing FILM ELEGY at the PRROBLEM Press table, & writing poems on paper airplanes & throwing them over to @illepitaph.bsky.social at the @annulet.bsky.social table at AWP

Omg haven’t seen that one!

Laura Paul

@laura-n-paul.bsky.social

God bless Duncan Fraser for reciting this line 🫡

Everyday can be buy nothing day (or as little as possible) if we try!

Film, Friends, and Poetry with Laura Paul YouTube video by Joe Bielecki

Happy Birthday to @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, truly the hardest working poet I've yet met.

Last day of our Chicago celebration! For my book Film Elegy, the films of Amy Halpern, community, collaboration, creative vision, & all sorts of good things that will continue on & on 📝✨🎞️

Chicago! See you again tonight @ Inga Bookshop! 🎞️ Part 2 of 3 ✨

Tonight! 🎞️✨At the Block Cinema at Northwestern University

Amy Halpern on FALLING LESSONS (1992), screening Friday at Block Cinema as part of PALM DOWN, a 3-day celebration of her work presented with @misterminsoo.bsky.social, @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, and Inga Bookshop. Clip is from a 2020 interview for the (S8) festival presented online. bit.ly/halp3rn

Wow that's an amazing story!

Oh I didn’t realize it was an adaptation!

Looks like more poems might be coming out this year???

Not just poetry! Multiple novels!

Block Cinema joins w/ Pilsen's Inga Bookshop, @misterminsoo.bsky.social/Tone Glow, and poet @laura-n-paul.bsky.social for PALM DOWN, a three-day retrospective of experimental cinéaste Amy Halpern, whose filmography truly rewards a deep dive. Things kick off 2/21 with FALLING LESSONS: bit.ly/halp3rn

omg!

Tone Glow Presents "Simple Fascinations" On February 23rd, Tone Glow will present 22 films from the late Amy Halpern. The screening is part of a multi-venue retrospective of Halpern's works alongside the Block Museum and Inga Books.

& from @misterminsoo.bsky.social over at Tone Glow: toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

Chicago! February 21-23! A 3-day extravaganza of my book, FILM ELEGY & Amy Halpern retrospective! More here: nublockmuseum.blog/2025/01/31/b...

That’s amazing! They have good recs 💯

& so many emotional registers! Not all despair!

Agreed! I think about this book SO FREQUENTLY