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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Lam, Laura
(1988- ) US-born author, resident for some time in Scotland, much of whose early work has been fantasy, with explorations of Sex and Gender couched cogently into adventure narratives; she also writes some nonfantastic work as by Laura Ambrose. Her first series, the Young Adult Micah Grey sequence beginning with Pantomime (2013), emplaces its intersex protagonist in a ...
Evenson, Brian
(1966- ) US academic and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Air Fish" (in Air Fish, anth 1993, edited by Jay Oestreicher and Richard Singer), and who gained considerable attention with his first novel, the non-fantastic Father of Lies (1998), about a senior functionary in a secretive religion who engages in child abuse. After the publication of this tale of horror, his long-term difficulties with the Church of the Latter ...
Tears of Ecstasy
Japanese film (1995). Original title Ekusutashi no namida: Chiin. KKokuei (Tokyo). Directed by Hiroyuki Oki. Written by Hiroyuki Oki and Kiyomi Ito. Cast includes Hiromi Fujita, Hiroyuki Oki, Akiko Osugi and Tomoki Taguchi. 62 minutes. Colour. / A singular figure in contemporary art, Oki (1964- ) is a highly regarded artist and architect, as well as a documentary filmmaker, and director of mostly gay themed low budget ...
Track of the Moon Beast
Film (1976). Brandon Films/Cinema Shares International Distributors. Produced by Ralph T Desiderio. Directed by Richard Ashe (credited as Dick Ashe). Written by Bill Finger (credited as William Finger), and Charles Sinclair. Makeup by Rick Baker and Joe Blasco. Cast includes Joe Blasco, Chase Cordell (Paul Carlson), Leigh Drake (credited as Donna Leigh Drake), Gregorio Sala and Patrick Wright. 90 minutes, cut to 81 minutes for home video. Colour. / An ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...