Nameless Films is a collaboration between fiction writer Sandy Florian and Talan Memmott. The videos are short, experimental narrative works … the method is ‘godardian’ by default, dealing with improvisation and happenstance … the narratives are compressed, emphasizing an embedded poetics of the moment … this series of Nameless Film productions does not produce narratives…

From Scott Rettberg: Talan Memmott is well known as an electronic literature author, for works such as Lexia to Peplexia and Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)](Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]). A California native, Talan lives in Sweden where he teaches digital media at Blekinge Institute of Technology. In recent years, Talan has also been producing a number…

1. Her pants are stone and she is all grey, shadow spilling everywhere, metallic shimmering. The way she sits, sinking a submarine. She’s full of covert spying eyes. She wears a grey sweater. Sitting in that cobalt chair, it’s blueness firecrackers. a. Certainly she isn’t the only female, but she’s the female I have chosen.…

“The squash is almost ready,” she says, when she hears me come in. “Go ahead and sit down.” As I enter the dining room I notice that my plate is half-covered with cheese, a huge pyramid of cheese, built with large cubes nearly two inches square. I stare at the cheese. She brings in the…

Dirk Stratton’s Last Will and Testament I, “Dirk,” being of sound mind (the body being in dispute, given my status as a fiction) in anticipation of that event that comes to us all, now set forth my last will and testament. If I die there will be little doubt that the responsible parties will include…

Unfathomably, We Won a Shit Load of Awards When the Anthology won the National Book Award, it was no big deal for us really. The Whitney did give us a certain satisfaction, admittedly. Of course, the Lannan was great, not that we needed the money, but it felt good. When the MacArthur people finally came…

How We Trashed the Hotel Room I remember this night. It was the crescendo of our spiral of self-destructive behavior. I don’t remember anything for weeks before, and the period afterward is a confused blur. Dirk had taken too much acid in too short a time, and required almost half a sheet to get off.…

Paris Miller Paris is exactly as Henry Miller described it. By the time we get to Paris I’m burning with passion and fire in my soul and turgidity in my loins and Frank is here he’s handling everything he’s handling my appearances he’s handling my publicity he’s even handling the women fate would throw my…

Public Health Transportation S: Are there trains that run from Chicago to Champaign? W: Ah, yeah. S: Are there any that run straight to your door? W: Ah, no. S: Why not? W: Because a whole lot of savvy businessmen have misplaced resources and put a lot of our resources go into developing cars. S:…

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low, the Unknown had been passing together, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country in Maryland, and at length found themselves, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of…

Typing Test for Unknown Employment (Please complete in 5 minutes or when the person giving you the test returns.) When you are ready to look for your first job with the Unknown, you will realize that you need job leads with the Unknown and must know what is expected of you in the Unknown corporate…

Hypertext of the Unknown Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything—or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance is not just a blank…