Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances

by curated by M Freeman, Rana San, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke

Good Symptom troubles the boundaries between literature and cinema. Subscribe for a whole year of extraordinary short films. Released in 12 monthly installments, every episode features 1-4 short films that push the language of poetry, essay, memoir, manifesto and hybrid literature off the page and onto the screen. Forthcoming September 2023!

About the Artists

Writer and media artist M Freeman is author of The Illuminated Space (Winner of the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation). Creator of Cinema Divina—short personal films made through and for creative contemplative practice.

Rana San is an intermedia artist, choreographer, and curator. Her practice centers experimental and analog approaches to storytelling on stage and screen. She recently had a video essay published in TriQuarterly and her cinepoems have screened nationally and internationally at Experiments in Cinema (NM), Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival (MX), and Zebra Film Poetry Festival (DE), among others. She co-curated Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances, published by The 3rd Thing, 2023–2024. Based between Seattle and Istanbul, she co-directs Cadence Video Poetry Festival.

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is an author, filmmaker, and curator exploring the liminal spaces of the literary arts. Her interest in how words are experienced has resulted in gallery installations, classical music performances, broadsides, karaoke, and video poetry. She is co-director of Cadence Video Poetry Festival, co-curator of Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances (The 3rd Thing), and a community board member for the Seattle City of Literature. Chelsea was recently published in Tri-Quarterly and featured in Local Sightings Film Festival (WA), Aorta Poetry Film Festival (NZ), and Festival Fotogenia (MX).