fall2023 — Three Fold

issue no. twelve—fall 2023

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Media City Film Festival’s 26th Edition
November 7 through November 11, 2023

Media City Film Festival’s historic 26th Edition showcases more than 70 international film and digital artworks in their original formats (S8mm, 16mm, 35mm, digital).

MCFF International Program Eight
Co-presenting partner: Three Fold
Films by: Jeannette Ehlers / Kevin Jerome Everson / Miryam Charles / Ana Vaz / Abigail Child / Sarah Maldoror / Simone Leigh & Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich

Program inspired by and conspiring with Fire Blossoms, a dossier by Yasmina Price for Three Fold Press Detroit.

Saturday, November 11 at 9:30 pm
The Capitol Theatre
121 University Ave. W, Windsor
Pay What You Like

Images: [Above] Harry Smith, Film No. 11 (Mirror Animations), 1956-57. Courtesy Anthology Film Archives © Harry Smith Archives. [Below] Miryam Charles, Cette maison (2022), 16mm film stills. Courtesy the artist.

The Eternal Return
Blacula and the Thematic Aesthetics of William Crain

By André Seewood

In this essay, writer and filmmaker André Seewood argues that director William Crain’s film Blacula from 1972 is more than just another vampire film. Read the full text, as well as a transcription of an oral interview with Crain, and watch the film in its entirety.

Galdr
By Paul Elliman

“In Cuzco, while traveling in Peru, I was offered a collection of Quechua bracelets. Dark and bright clusters of small objects strung together. Rough stone, medicinal tree bark, metals, feathers and seeds, beads of blue lapis and apple-green jade. One of the bracelets held a tiny piece of hand-carved bone, like the fragment of a miniature Galatea.”

Diego & Me
By James D. Fuson

“I was in prison for life when I had my first real experience with the Detroit Institute of Arts [...] Most of my life, I haven’t known about Diego Rivera’s monumental Detroit Industry Murals, but eight years ago, that changed.”

Letter to My Daughter
Experimental prose by Ethel Kabwato

Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Eleven
By Lynn Crawford
What happens when books join forces.

Poetry in the Fall Issue

CAConrad, Kweku Abimbola, Eileen Myles, Rob Halpern, Nicole Brossard

Three Fold has published the works of more than 60 poets since its founding in 2020. Peruse our growing poetry archive here.

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Founded in 2020, Three Fold is an independent quarterly based in Detroit that presents exploratory points of view on arts, culture, and society in addition to original works in various media, including visual art, literature, film and the performing arts. We solicit and commission contributions from artists, writers, and activists around the world. Three Fold is a publication of Trinosophes Projects, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in the historic Eastern Market neighborhood in downtown Detroit. Click here to check out Three Fold’s events page and view a schedule of the publication’s on-site activities.

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