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John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.
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Strange video. But interesting. Bars on the windows?
And were the bars to keep people out or a certain person in? Ha!
Yeah, I found this video very creepy. It gave me the impression of someone staking out a target.
It looks like a set from Haneke’s Time of the Wolf.
Thanks for posting this, John. Sometimes I feel like I live in this house. Back to the cone now…
heh, reading correction right now! thanks for encouraging me to press on, john. the second half is way more readable than the first.
The music in this video is diegetic: it wasn’t added by the filmmaker, but is actually what you hear when you’re standing outside the house. It’s Thomas Bernhard’s favorite song and he liked it so much that he buried speakers in the ground, then set this track on eternal repeat.