Zine as Somatic Archive
Edited by Michèle Saint-Michel | Published by Bad Saturn Media | In collaboration with Millennium Film Workshop
A Tactile Artifact from the 2025 Exhibition
We’re proud to announce the wider release of Between a Frame and a Soft Place, the official zine of the 2025 exhibition at Millennium Film Workshop in New York City. Carefully edited by Michèle Saint-Michel and published by Bad Saturn Media, this hand-bound zine is now available for purchase online.
Originally available only in person during the exhibition, this limited-edition zine is now being distributed globally to bring its intimate reflections to a broader audience.
Handmade, Meant to Be Held
This is a small-run, hand-numbered zine:
– 44 pages
– Hand-sewn with waxed linen thread
– Bound in translucent vellum
It is meant not just to be read, but held. It carries the weight of process. Like the exhibition it extends, it dwells in slowness, attention, and deep feeling. Printed in a small batch with care and intention, this zine is a tactile extension of the exhibition’s ideas—meant to be held, felt, and revisited.
🖤 Print Edition: $14 USD
💻 Digital Edition: Pay What You Can (Suggested: $5)
About the Zine
Curated as an intimate counterpoint to the gallery space, performances, and screenings, this zine explores how digital mediation reshapes our sense of reality. What happens when private experience becomes filtered through technological textures? What kind of intimacy survives in the digital blur?
This collection brings together artists and writers working at the edges of perception, grief, touch, and time. Through visual work, poetry, and prose, the zine holds space for both the ephemeral and the enduring—asking how we look, how we remember, and how we care.
Contributors
Contributors were invited to respond across form—writing, image, and poetic essay. Each artist brings forward their own interrogation of visibility, interiority, and trace.
Alexandra Mauriello, Andrea Hackl, Anton Lushankin, Christina Bauernfeind, Clara Chacón, Collette Rayner, Fran Hayes, Gabriela Milkova Robins, Gel Press, Ginny Darke, indexthumb, Jamie Yuan, Kevin Chen, Lauren Dana Smith, Maike Helbig, Matt McKinzie, Olivia Burgess, Rachel Sun E., Riley Tu, Riverstone, Vincent Katz, and Zara Joan Miller.
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💌 Print Edition – $14
Receive a hand-bound, vellum-covered, hand-numbered zine delivered directly to your door.
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🌐 Digital Edition – Pay What You Can (Suggested $5)
Ideal for international readers and digital libraries.
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Why It Matters
This project reflects Bad Saturn Media’s ethos of care-full publishing—amplifying voices that engage with complexity and feeling. It also continues the mission of Millennium Film Workshop to support experimental practices through print, performance, and film.
Curator and Editor Michèle Saint-Michel brings together works that don’t shy away from difficult or delicate subjects—grief, rupture, dislocation—yet offer space for reflection, connection, and transformation.
Rooted in embodiment, memory, and digital mediation, this publication asks how intimacy is refracted through technological systems—and how grief, tenderness, and perceptual distortion remain present in our bodies long after the moment of capture.